One of the first things I did when I received my Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 (see my recent blog post), was to upgrade it to Windows 8 Enterprise. My first attempt left me with a non-functioning tablet. The upgrade completed, but when the system rebooted, it just sat on the spinning circle screen, rebooted, and eventually went
One of the Windows 8 devices I’m trying out for work is the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2. My Lenovo sales rep had a Tablet 2 (T2) along with some other devices during a recent visit. As soon as I held it in my hands, I knew I had to get one of these. It is
Coming up with useful error messages must be more difficult than I can imagine, because I keep finding examples of the opposite. Today it was Windows Mail’s turn to disappoint (or so I thought). You might ask when doesn’t Windows Mail disappoint, but I’m not going there. I was trying to add my Office 365 account to
Have you tried watching video in an app on your Surface RT only to have the system go to sleep at the two-minute mark? Kenold Pierre-Louis (@kenoldp) experienced this and tweeted about it. I hadn’t played much video myself, but what he was describing sounded odd. I fired up the Stanford app as he suggested,
Microsoft revealed the Surface, a Microsoft-branded tablet. The Surface website is up now with a small gallery of photos and a detailed spec sheet for both a Windows RT and a Windows 8 Pro version. The RT version is the one that will be held up against the iPad and the specs are competitive. The
