After releasing its Windows 8 code to manufacturers, Microsoft has made the final (though not yet public) version of Windows 8 available to developers. The version is called Windows 8 RTM (for ...

Microsoft is right on schedule with its Windows 8 launch, announcing today that the final code for Windows 8 has been released to manufacturers (RTM). The company had previously announced it would ...

For a touch-based interface it was awfully hard to get hold of. Microsoft’s Windows 8 OS was shown on a handful of prototype ARM-based tablets at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, but almost no ...

Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 has reached the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) build. This means that the company has finalized the code and has begun the process of getting that code to ...

Microsoft reportedly will release its next version of Windows, code-named Blue, in less than a year. The yearly upgrade approach has a precedent: Windows Live Back in August, citing unnamed sources, ...

Word is Microsoft has released Windows 8.1 to manufacturing. There's still no indication that developers or users are going to get the gold bits before October 18. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech ...

ARM processor Microsoft released technical design details about the new version of Windows for devices that use ARM chips, outlining in a lengthy blog post different ways in which this OS, called WOA ...

We learned about two Windows 8 code-names dubbed ‘Jupiter’ and ‘Mosh’ recently, and as we hoped, more information has leaked. Jupiter and Mosh are perhaps the two meatiest pieces of Windows 8 material ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft has revealed that its forthcoming update to ...

Researchers studying and comparing Microsoft code in Windows 7 and Windows 8 have found that there is security code in Windows 8 that is not present in Windows 7. Fundamentally, this is a ...