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 ...

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 ...

Windows 8, the Ultrabook, and HP's second thoughts about exiting the desktop market suggest that competition for users' hearts and minds is far from over You’ve seen the numbers: IDC predicts a ...

As I anticipated, last week’s post about Microsoft’s latest desktop/tablet operating system (“The great Windows 8 debate“) brought forth a torrent of divided opinions, both in the comments fields and ...