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Microsoft officials declared release date of Windows 8 on Wednesday with thousands of Microsoft salespeople attending the Microsoft Global Exchange Conference in Atlanta, according to a post on the Windows team blog.


October 26 is the date. Windows 8 will be available preloaded on new PCs and via online upgrade programs on October 26. The OS is to be released to manufacturing by first week of August.
Microsoft is continuously making announcements about Windows 8 and there are already a lot of good reviews. I'm going to get an upgrade as soon as it gets out. What do you think about this latest Windows OS? Drop in your comments.

Windows 8 is the quickest and most resource friendly version of all latest Microsoft releases and it has got a lot of good reviews. There’s a good news for people planning to upgrade to shiny new Windows 8 this fall.

Microsoft has announced that all users running Windows XP or a later version of Windows OS can upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for just $40. That's really cheap because Microsoft charges a lot in general. For example, cheapest upgrade from any older version to Windows 7 is $120. An upgrade from one version of Windows 7 to another version costs around $65. Apple, on the other hand, charges only $29 for an upgrade to newest version of Mac OS X and plans to slash upgrade prices further to $20 for the latest “Mountain Lion” scheduled to be released this month.
Looking at Microsoft’s high upgrade free structure, this promotional price cut is really worth considering. The offer will last throughout the end of January 2013. Users will have to download Windows 8 from the Internet though. If you’re looking to purchase a DVD version, it’s be available in stores and will cost you $70.

 Microsoft has just officially unveiled the new Xbox Music Service at their pre E-3 press conference. Microsoft showed off the service on stage along with a brief video clip. Xbox Music will be the music streaming service for various Microsoft devices.
They've offered only a few details for now. Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi noted that the service will have a library of over 30 million tracks.
 The player itself looked clean and metro-ish in the demonstration video.

Apart for the console, the service will be made available on Windows 8 PCs, tablets and Windows phones. It is also expected to have social sharing features. Sharing tracks with friends and viewing their currently playing song is also a possibility.

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out.  
Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded.
Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.
The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.
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