Lenovo to pre-install Pokki’s Start menu software on new Windows 8 PCs

SweetLabs’ Pokki software, which has been downloaded by millions of Windows 8 users frustrated with the lack of a start button/menu, will now be pre-installed on new Lenovo Windows 8 PCs. This new ...
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The best Windows 8 Start menu programs

TTGSteve asked the Windows forum to recommend a good Start Menu program for Windows 8. Like a lot of people, I have a very low opinion of Windows 8’s user interface. And one of the things I like least ...
Ars Technica

Learning Windows API programming.

Just wondered how you guys learned the Windows API. I'm reading Programming Windows, Fifth Edition by Charles Petzold right now. So far it seems to be a pretty decent book as far as programming goes.
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Windows 8 presses developers to update their skills

Microsoft likes to talk about Windows 8 as being Windows “reimagined,” and in many ways it is quite a departure from its predecessors. To allow the operating system’s use across a range of touchscreen ...