The latest Windows 8 build 7989 uncovers a variety of new features, including a new virtual keyboard, support for SMS, and per-feature licensing that prompt users to buy new features as they needed ...

Leaked screenshots of the latest Windows 8 build show that Microsoft has jettisoned the traditional Windows 8 Start button but tweaked the Charms Bar and other settings. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Whenever Microsoft releases a new desktop operating system, users inevitably ponder the purchase or assembly of a new system. Although Windows 8’s controversial interface changes and obvious ...

An early build of Windows 8 has fallen onto the black market of the web: the torrent sites. This early early build of Windows 8 (M1, build 7850; a very early build indeed) was compiled on the 22nd ...

Windows 8: What A Build! While there are some things to like about Microsoft Windows 8, such as vastly improved finger navigation (thanks to Metro) over Windows 7 when running on a tablet, there are ...

Windows 8 is all about Metro, cloud and apps. But Microsoft also improved some of its classic desktop tools and also made some last-minute changes to the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Back when Windows ...

Windows 8, the next version of Microsoft’s PC operating system, will be a radical change for people who pick it up for the first time, with a primary screen based on tiles similar to the Windows Phone ...

Considering that 2012 will be the year of Microsoft’s dramatic upgrade to Windows 8, one might have thought the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show last week would be filled with prospective ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Windows Server 8 build 7959 has leaked. This appears to be the first build from Milestone 3 that the ...

In context: Windows 7 as a proper computing platform has long been dead, but leakers are still playing with the corpse of one of Microsoft most successful software products. A new preview build of the ...

Microsoft’s top Windows executive today said that the company will ship an almost-complete version of Windows 8 the first week of June. Stephen Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live ...