All I care about is Windows not slowing down horribly after months of use as Windows 7 seems to like to do, and the backup and restore not sucking so hard as Windows 7's backup does. On iOS ...

If you were worried that, like Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 would be locked in landscape mode, fear not! On the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft has outlined that while landscape is certainly the ...

Wanting the inside track on the next iteration of Windows, which is expected next year? Microsoft’s launched a new blog written by the engineering team, and while they don’t give away too much yet, ...

For all of those curious about Microsoft’s (News - Alert) next operating system, the company has been gradually doling out details about Windows 8 through a blog dubbed “Building Windows 8.” Kicked ...

After a lot of fluster on the Building Windows 8 blog, the Release Preview is actually surprisingly similar to the Consumer Preview. Multi-monitor improvements are in, and Metro IE now supports Flash ...

Over the last few days, Microsoft has revealed a number of details on the Building Windows 8 blog regarding a new feature coming to the upcoming OS dubbed “Picture Password”. Upon hearing the name of ...

Microsoft is outlining its printing improvements in Windows 8 today. In a post on the Building Windows 8 blog, Adrian Lannin, a lead program manager on the Printing team, describes a new print system ...

Microsoft trumpets Windows 8 refresh/reset as a feature, but actually reveals bloated Windows 7 legacy code it's carting around The latest post on the Building Windows 8 blog talks about the OS’s new ...

At Dell World, Microsoft's CEO digs deeper into the next version of Windows with a demo and discussion of four specific features. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

Some Microsoft bosses like to develop out in the open, letting us follow almost every move (IE team, anyone?). Then there’s Steve Sinofsky, former head of the Office team and now leading up Windows.