Windows 8.1 works toward solving many of the problems users had with Windows 8 and adds several useful new features to boot. Jason Parker Senior Editor / Reviews - Software Jason Parker has been at ...

From the very beginning, Windows 8 was developed as a 'touch-first' operating system - one that was created primarily to work with touch inputs, but which could be used just as comfortably with a good ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest maker of personal computers, plans to unveil a line of touch-screen laptops running Microsoft's new Windows 8 software, including one model that ...

Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...

For those systems that have a touch screen, I used a finger to maneuver around the Windows 8 Start Screen and also tried them with a Wacom Bamboo stylus. To gauge if it could work with 10 individual ...

The Acer Aspire Switch 11 (SW5-171-325N) is a midrange detachable-hybrid tablet made to give you maximum flexibility from a touch-screen Windows 8.1 system. Here's a closeup of the magnetic latch, ...