Windows 8.1 RTM x64 Is Now Available In 36 Languages

While it may be debatable why Microsoft delayed releasing Windows 8.1 RTM (at least on its MSDN and TechNet channels), there is no arguing the fact that the upcoming operating system is widely available on torrent and file sharing websites.

The RTM version of Windows 8.1 leaked out last week, as reported earlier.

And an increasing amount of users are installing the upgrade on the PCs and devices — all it requires for activation is the Windows 8 key, after all. In fact, the OS has is now available in several languages, allowing users are chance to try it out in their native language.

As of this writing, Windows 8.1 RTM x64 is available in a total of 36 languages. The list of languages that the leaked ISOs support includes English, Japanese, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian and Italian.

Lithuanian, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Multi-Language, Chinese (Hong Kong SAR), Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese (Portugal) and Kyrgyz are also available for download.

Meaning those of you that were waiting to try out Windows 8.1, but were waiting for the operating system to be available in any of the above languages can now scout out a version.

As usual, keep in mind that Microsoft does not recommend users to install these copies of Windows 8.1 RTM, even if they are untouched and confirmed to be unmodified. The company is actually not offering any support for these versions.

Windows 8.1 will officially debut on October 18, while Windows 8 users will be allowed to download the first refresh of the platform from the Windows Store a day earlier.

Microsoft CEO : Steve Ballmer Was Definitely Fired By The Board, Analyst Believes

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It was around this time a full week ago that the technology world was rattled by the Steve Ballmer retirement announcement. The outgoing Microsoft CEO announced last Friday that he would be leaving the company within the next 12 months.

And even though he has recently initiated a massive reorganization plan for Redmond, Ballmer is said to part ways with Microsoft as soon as a successor is found.

While no details have been provided on the reasons why he has decided to leave, some analysts readily believe that it was the board that had the final say in this and decided to get rid of the CEO — in other words, Ballmer was definitely fired.

Patrick Moorehead of Moor Insights & Strategy, a leading analyst, said in an interview with TweakTown that Ballmer was most likely pushed out the board, as some members have not been pleased with the vision and strategy that he was pursuing:

“He was definitely pushed out by the board. They either drove him out or put him in a situation where he felt he had to leave to save face.”

Obviously it may be a while before we hear everything that went on behind the curtains, but chances are that something like this could have transpired.

Ballmer, so far has refused to provide any specifics on his retirement, but has pointed out that he discussed this with Bill Gates before making this decision — the famed co-founder of Microsoft is one of Ballmer’s closest friends, after all.

Chances are that Steve even lost Gates’ support on this, and everyone decided that a change of face and a change of outlook is now the need of the hour for the Redmond Empire.

Nevertheless, whoever comes next will, in all likelihood, continue Ballmer’s vision. The company’s board has hinted that the transformation to a devices and services firm shall continue to ensure that Microsoft stays competitive in all its markets.

Microsoft and Google to sue government over transparency

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In a blog entry by Microsoft General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs Brad Smith, the company explained how negotiations with the government over permission "…to publish sufficient data relating to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) orders" have faltered. Both Microsoft and Google will proceed with litigation to seek permission from the FISA court.

Ever since the public disclosure of the NSA's surveillance programs by former contractor Edward Snowden, Microsoft, Google and many other companies have called on the government to allow them to disclose the extent of their cooperation so that customers and foreign governments can make informed decisions about the trustworthiness of the companies' services.

Smith says in the blog that both Microsoft and Google filed suit in June for permission to disclose the information, and they believe they have the clear constitutional right to do so. On 6 occasions the government has asked for extensions from the court before replying to the suit.

According to this order from the FISA court, 5PM today (presumably eastern time, as that is the time of the court's seat) is the current deadline for the current extension. Smith says that Microsoft and Google won't agree to any more extensions.

In part because of the secrecy under which it operates, the court has a reputation as a rubber stamp for government requests, although both the court and government dispute this characterization. Finding for Microsoft and Google, not giving the government the benefit of any doubt, could be a way for the court to assert its independence in a public way.

Today may also be a good day for the government to cave on the Microsoft/Google petition. It's standard procedure, when you want to bury news, to release it on a Friday. Releasing it on the Friday before Labor Day buries it that much deeper.

6 Ways To Free Up Space On Your Windows Computer

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Clutter can be a big downer on productivity, whether it’s your workstation, your home, or your computer. Entropy is the reason why clutter builds up over time, and entropy takes many forms in the context of computers. Files get lost, programs go unused, and little by little various nooks and crannies in your computer are taken up by stray bits of data. Suddenly, your once spacious hard drive is packed with useless things and you have to clean it up. But how?

It’s not enough to delete things left and right. You need to find the big space hogs, identify which ones are worth deleting, and make sure you aren’t causing harm to your system in the process. Fortunately, there are a few methods you can use to maximize space cleaning on your Windows computer. Open up your technical toolbox and add these to your repertoire because they’ll come in handy every few months during your routine clean.

1. Analyze Disk Space

The first thing you want to do is analyze your disks to see which items are taking up the most space and where they’re located. The reasoning for this is simple: if you want to clean up space as much space as you can in the shortest amount of time, the quickest way is to get rid of big sized items.

But the disk analyzer is also useful for finding hidden or forgotten files. Remember those files you downloaded months ago yet couldn’t find where they’d gone? Or maybe you stockpiled a bunch of files that were useful to you a year ago but now mean nothing? Well, they’ve been taking up space all this time. A disk analyzer will tell you that they exist and you can then go ahead and delete them.

For this, I use the program called WinDirStat, which stands for Windows Directory Statistics. It scans your entire system and organizes everything into an easy-to-navigate tree that shows you which folders take up the most space and what items are taking up that space. Hard drive visualization tools like WinDirStat or WizTree make it even easier to see where the big problems lie. I highly recommend it.

2. Clear Temporary Files

Temporary files are exactly what their name implies: files that temporarily useful. This means you can go ahead and delete them without much fear of breaking any critical procedures on your system. Most temporary files are used during program installations (having to unpack all of that data before moving it onto your system) and by browsers (for cache reasons), so it’s pretty safe.

On the topic of browsers, you may want to check out Browser Cleaner. On the one hand, every browser has a built-in option for deleting temporary data like history, downloads, cache, cookies, etc. But with Browser Cleaner, you can clean out more than one browser at a time and all it takes is one button. On top of that, Browser Cleaner can clean application-related temporary data, such as IM logs, program caches, etc. Very easy, very fast, and very convenient.

3. Remove Duplicate Files

I don’t know about you, but there have been many times when I’ve downloaded a file and moved it off to some place for safe keeping only to forget where I’ve put it. Fastforward a few days later and I don’t see the file anywhere, so I download a new copy of it. If this happens a few times – especially if the file is a big size thing, such as the installation file for a large program – then it can really eat up valuable space.

Fortunately, there are a number of tools designed to remove duplicate files in a flash. Check them out, find one that looks like it interests you, download it and give it a go. Deleting duplicate files is a great way to free up lost space, and the best part is that you don’t actually lose any content in the process since they were duplicates. I’m personally favorable towardsdupeGuru.

4. Wipe Unused Feature Space

Did you know that some of the features in Windows, like System Restore and Hibernation, require hard drive space to operate? That’s right. A lot of your hard drive might be eaten up by space that’s been reserved for these features – even if those features haven’t been used in ages.

There are two ways to tweak System Restore: reduce the amount of reserved space OR delete past System Restore points. We’ve answered how to delete system restore pointsbefore, so look there for specific directions on how to do that. Just know that you can save on gigabytes of data with this depending on how much of your computer settings are dedicated to System Restore.

Hibernation, on the other hand, is a system feature that lets you save the state of your computer before you “shut it down,” then restores that state when you “turn it back on.” All of this information is saved to the hibernation system file, which takes up a lot of space. If you disable hibernation and delete that file, you can reclaim that space. For specific instructions, How-To Geek has a post on deleting hiberfil.sys.

Note: Do these system alterations at your own risk. MakeUseOf claims no responsibility if you damage your system in any way. If you aren’t sure of what you’re doing, don’t do it!

5. Upload to Cloud Storage

One of the newer advancements in technology has been the cloud. More importantly, cloud storage. With it, you can upload your files to a server and have them keep it safe and sound so you can free up space on your local hard drive. Most cloud storage services will automatically sync your data between cloud and computer. Just go with a well-known service, like Dropbox or Sugarsync, and there will be minimal risk of losing your files.

One word of warning, though: you may not want to put your sensitive data on a cloud. There’s been a lot of talk recently about security, PRISM, eavesdropping, and all that jazz. If you don’t want anyone – and I mean anyone - reading your data, then don’t upload it to the cloud. Otherwise, feel free to use cloud storage as extended storage or even just as a backup.

6. Uninstall Programs

Of course, don’t forget that you can uninstall programs to free up space. If you have any programs that you haven’t run in years, go ahead and uninstall them, but make sure you have some way of reinstalling them if you ever need them. For web downloaded stuff, don’t fret, but I’m talking about CDs and DVDs for paid software – make sure you still have those before you wipe them from your drive.

While the Windows default uninstaller works fine for most programs, you can try a third party tool like GlarySoft’s Absolute Uninstaller to completely remove all traces of installed software.

Conclusion

Don’t let your computer devolve into a smattering of stray programs and files that clog up your space. If you find yourself always on the verge of running out of disk space, frantically looking for files to delete here and there to tide you over until next week, then maybe you ought to sit down and really clean out some space. These methods and tools will help you there.

What tips and tricks do you use to clean out your computer? Share your thoughts with us in the comments!

4 Tools to Display RSS Feed Updates Directly on Your Windows Desktop

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You used to relax in the morning with a warm cup of coffee, reading your favorite blog, until your life took over and changed everything. You even had time to browse and meander through several of your favorite blogs. Then life happened. You got busy, or you got a promotion, and your mornings transformed into a busy time where you need to race through emails before the workday started. Thankfully, RSS feeds are a savior for the worker – a way to sort of auto-browse all of those headlines without the need to click and read each one.

What you’re suffering from is a condition called “aging”. You have kids, your responsibilities grow, and it seems like the days grow shorter. First, you no longer have time to play those games that you used to love so much. Then, before you know it, you’re losing touch with the news and with headlines from the world around you. It really doesn’t have to be that way though. RSS feeds have been around for ages, and they remain the most popular vehicle for busy people to get the latest news quickly and efficiently.

In this article, I’m going to cover four of the best tools to deliver RSS feed updates directly to your desktop, either through RSS tickers, or from alert boxes that display feed information right inside and scroll automatically. This way, during your workday, you can just glance over at the streaming updates and if a topic catches your eye, you can click on it and bookmark the article to read later, during your lunch break or after work.

News RSS Ticker

One of my favorite methods to display news RSS feeds, especially on my nice big second screen that I recently purchased, is the scrolling ticker RSS feed display. News RSS Ticker is among the top ticker-tape RSS feed displays out there, thanks to nice large scrolling font, and the fact that it takes up so little of the desktop display space. It is docked at the top and leaves nearly your entire display available for other work.

Adding feeds is as simple as right clicking on the ticker, going to “File” and either importing a feed list file (OPML), or opening individual feeds.

The beauty of this is that you can use the various section feeds from news sites like CNN, and totally tailor the type of news that gets displayed on your desktop RSS ticker tape display.

News RSS Ticker actually comes preloaded with a good-sized list of news feeds from around the web, but if you want to add more, you can also add individual feeds and enable them to display by clicking on the checkbox next to the feed title.

Here’s what the ticker display looks like docked at the top of my desktop display.

It’s simple, easy to read even when sitting back from the screen, and it’ll catch your attention when a particularly interesting headline scrolls across the screen.

Feed Notifier

If ticker displays are not your cup of tea, have no fear, because there are also great desktop feed display tools that present feed content in a different format. One great example of this is Feed Notifier, an RSS feed app that Craig actually reviewed not long ago.

Feed Notifier rests in your taskbar, and you can add feeds to it simply by right clicking on the icon and selecting “Add Feed”.

It’s a tad annoying that you have to add feeds individually – there’s no way to import feed lists – but this is a small drawback to deal with given how useful the app is once you’ve got it loaded up with your favorite feeds.

Feed Notifier actually goes out and identifies the Feed Title and Feed Link details and autofills the next form for you. All you have to do is tweak the polling speed and the display box border color if you want, and then finish the Add Feed wizard.

As you can see below, the feed display box is semi-transparent, and it has forward and reverse controls, so that you can scroll through the feed title list if you want to do it manually. It’s also cool that you can assign a different box border color, depending on the feed that you’re adding.

This is a useful way for you to know which feed you’re looking at when glancing at the screen, just based on the assigned color for that feed.

Desktop Ticker

Back to the very popular ticker format, Desktop Ticker is another one that does it well. Unlike News RSS Ticker, this one has smaller text and takes up a smaller footprint on the desktop. For some, the smaller text and footprint may be preferable. You can add feeds by going to “File” and selecting “Manage Feeds…”

There, you’ll find a list of pre-existing feeds, and to add your own, you just have to paste the URL into the URL field and click “Add”, or click on “Import..” and you can import a list of feeds you might already have.

Just check off the feeds that you want the ticker to display. You can also customize the appearance and location of the ticker in the “Tools” submenu.

Of the two RSS desktop ticker apps, I still like the News RSS Ticker better, but that’s only because I really like big, bold headlines scrolling across the screen. Other people might prefer the clean, small text scrolling across the screen, in which case you’d be better off using Desktop Ticker.

Snackr

I think out of all of the RSS desktop display apps that I’ve ever tried, Snackr is easily one of the best. It’s filled with features, very customizable, and the ticker includes small images as well as text, which is very cool.

Upon installing and launching Snackr (which requires the installation of Adobe AIR Runtime by the way), you’ll see a list of feeds already available in the app. This setup screen is also where you can set up display preferences, and set up – get this – your Google Reader sync. Okay, so maybe they’re one or two updates behind…

Regardless, the ticker display is without a doubt the best out there, with cool news photo icons or logo icons displayed with the article headlines. These really make the ticker display more interesting, and just give the whole thing a much more professional look.

Customizing the ticker is really flexible as well, with the ability to have the ticker display on any of the four sides of the screen, and you can easily tweak things like ticker speed, opacity, the freshness of the feed stories, and much more.

Which RSS Feed App Is The Best?

Of all four desktop RSS feed display options, I think Snackr is my favorite. Snackr has been around for a long time, and I think the reason for that is because it does what it does well, and it lets you use it in whatever way – and wherever on the screen – that suits you best. I love that.

Do you get your news and blog updates from RSS feeds? Do you use any sort of desktop display or alert apps? Share your own tips about how you display RSS feeds on your desktop in the comments section below!

Windows 8 Set To Overtake Mac OS X

Windows 8.1 is all set to take over the computing world, both on desktop PCs and tablets, later this year. And one statistics worth keeping an eye on, in the meantime, is the Windows 8 adoption rate.

Redmond’s current platform, as of right now, continues to be the fourth top operating system in the world. Obviously it is fighting all the various versions of Mac OS X combined, but the latest figures confirm that Microsoft’s modern operating system keeps growing by the day.

And it is all set overtake Apple’s cocktail (OS cocktail, to be exact) to become the top three.

Statistics provided by StatCounter for the month of August indicate that Windows 8 has managed to get even closer to Mac OS X, and if it maintains the same pace, it should surpass Apple’s platform in the coming weeks.

As of this writing, Windows 8 is running 7.02 percent of computers worldwide. Mac OS X still has a little lead, with a combined market share (of all versions currently available) coming in at 7.21 percent.

Windows 7 continues to top the charts — no surprise here — with an absolutely stunning market share of 51.99 percent. Windows XP, the operating system set for retirement in April 2014, takes the second place with no less than 20.58 percent.

SkyDrive Pro: No new name (yet) but now with more storage

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Microsoft is adding more storage for its Office 365 and SharePoint customers to use with SkyDrive Pro.

SkyDrive Pro, despite its name, is not a variant of SkyDrive. It is designed for business file storage -- either in the cloud (SharePoint Online) or on SharePoint 2013 servers -- which users can access from a variety of devices.

Microsoft announced updates to its SkyDrive Pro capabilities on August 27 via a new post to the Office 365 technology blog. The changes:

• Each user now gets 25 GB of SkyDrive Pro storage space (up from 7 GB). This is for both new and existing customers.
• Customers can increase SkyDrive Pro storage quotas for individual users beyond the default 25 GB, to up to 50 GB and 100 GB.
• With the new  "Shared with Me" view, users can more easily find documents others have shared with them.

Other features called out in today's post: An increase in the overall file upload limit in SharePoint Online to 2 GB/file; default recycle-bin retention to 90 days (up from 30); and versioning enabled by default, so the last 10 versions of a document are saved, to prevent inadvertent document deletion or loss.

Microsoft recently decided against fighting Sky Broadcasting Group for the SkyDrive name and officials promised to come up with a new name for SkyDrive. Even though Windows 8.1 was released to manufacturing, there's still no new name announced for SkyDrive yet.