Windows 8 In Depth

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If You’re Moving to Windows 8 from XP

If you somehow avoided using Windows Vista and Windows 7, and you’re moving straight from Windows XP to Windows 8, you have more than 10 years of catching up to do. In this section, I’ll go through a few things that are going to be fairly big changes for you.

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