The year is drawing to a close, so there’s a very good chance that you now find yourself staring straight down the gaping maw of Windows 8. Maybe someone gave you a new Windows tablet or PC as a gift.

Microsoft likes to talk about Windows 8 as being Windows “reimagined,” and in many ways it is quite a departure from its predecessors. To allow the operating system’s use across a range of touchscreen ...

I am planning to purchase a new computer that has Windows 8. I know Windows 8 can be used with a regular mouse and keyboard, but since it was designed for use with a touch screen, I’d like to get one.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini says that the price of Windows 8 tablets and touch laptops could drop to as low as $200 thanks to Intel's quad-core Bay Trail chip. Razer’s Edge is the world’s first gaming ...

In less than three weeks, consumers will start getting their hands on Windows 8, with its radically new “Modern” (formerly Metro) interface, and forming opinions about it. Some of them will be buying ...

The EliteBook Revolve joins the ElitePad as the second member of HP's Windows 8 arsenal to steal business customers away from the iPad. Where the ElitePad is a tablet first, the Revolve is a ...

Hewlett-Packard taps into the best aspects of Windows 8 with two cool notebooks that were shown this week at CES. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, ...

Lenovo Thursday unveiled the Miix tablet. Running on Windows 8, the Miix comes with an Intel Atom dual-core processor and boasts a 10.1-inch screen with 1,366-x-768 resolution. Using its detachable ...

Enterprise developers are seeing demand for Windows 8 line of business apps on mobile devices. However, the applications–while impressive–are speeding along mostly in vertical markets for very ...

Microsoft wants Windows developers to write Windows 8-specific, Metro-style, touch-friendly applications, and to make sure that they crank these apps out, the company ...