Last September, Microsoft showed off Windows 8 in public for the first time. One glance at the operating-system upgrade–heavily influenced by the company’s inventive Windows Phone–was enough to tell ...

Forget all of Microsoft’s hoopla about Windows 8‘s new Metro interface. If you’re a power user who relies on lots of legacy software, you’ll still be spending most of your time with the classic ...

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 ...

We know that Windows 8 is primarily a tablet and touch-first operating system, but -- assuming everything goes to plan -- it will also be used on hundreds of millions of desktop PCs around the world.

Windows 8 presents a radically new user experience that will be unfamiliar to just about everyone who's ever used a computer, and everyone will have to learn a few new tricks to get things done in the ...

If you move quickly, before servers all over the world start groaning under the load, you can get an early official copy of Windows 8 Release Preview Microsoft promised to deliver Windows 8 Release ...

Microsoft unveiled the Windows 8 Consumer Preview Product Guide for Business just a few hours before the widely anticipated release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview. In addition to the predictable pablum ...

Microsoft today announced that customers had downloaded more than 1 million copies of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview in its first day of availability. The company released the preview Wednesday around ...

Q:I'm curious about Windows 8, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea to install the preview version of it on my PC. Would it be better to just wait for the final version? A: I might not even bother ...

Windows 8 Preview has been assigned a June release by Microsoft ahead of a possible full roll out in September. The computing giant let the launch date slip at the Japan Developer Days for Windows 8 ...

Fix Windows 8: The OS sux on a desktop. Metro is full of crap. It is bulky and awkward on a desktop. You can fix this and regain your desktop and power buttons with Wizmo and Vistart (google how to ...

Microsoft looks set to release a consumer preview of Windows 8 on Feb. 29, just meeting the company's stated goal of delivering a beta version of the PC operating system by the end of February.