I’ve had a lot to say about Windows 8 already this year, and I’ll doubtlessly have more as we edge closer to its official late-October release date. And, let’s face it: most of it hasn’t been good.

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Microsoft shipped Windows Community Toolkit v8.2, an incremental update to the open-source collection of helper functions and other resources designed to simplify the development of Windows ...

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