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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Despite an additional year of trying to get Windows RT right, the ARM version of Windows 8.1 remains sluggish on the Surface RT -- and by association, any other Windows RT tablet powered by the Tegra ...

Windows for devices that run on ARM chips — WOA — will be based on the Windows 8 code base, itself still in development, and will replicate some familiar Windows design features, such as having a ...

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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE, March 20 (UPI) -- A former Microsoft employee has been arrested and charged with allegedly leaking Windows 8 code to a tech blogger, officials in Seattle said. Software architect Alex Kibkalo ...