Morrissey celebrates Microsoft ditching the Charms Bar, with gladioli. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is said to be giving up on the whole Charms schtick. Windows 9 — the assumed name for codename Threshold ...

Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in ...

Microsoft plans to do more than just reintroduce a Start menu to make Windows 9, aka "Threshold," more appealing to Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 users. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the ...

Microsoft will issue a preview of “Threshold,” the current code name for Windows 8’s successor, as soon as next month, according to an online report today. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, citing unnamed ...

Microsoft is planning to reveal its successor to Windows 8 -- known as "Windows 9," if the company continues its naming scheme -- at the end of next month, according to a new report. The purported ...

As we inch closer to the first big reveal of Windows Threshold -- expected on September 30 in the form of an enterprise technical preview -- rumors are flying about the role of "the cloud" in the ...

Microsoft mostly kept its head down during CES, but with its Build developer conference on the horizon and several platforms to unify, the company has a busy few months ahead of it. Simply put, we ...

Microsoft is preparing to release the next version of Windows, code-named “Threshold,” in a public preview this fall, according to a Friday report. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reports “Threshold” will be ...

Windows "Threshold," the next major version of Microsoft's Windows operating system due to hit around the spring of 2015, is coming into focus. And not too surprisingly, one of the Microsoft Operating ...

Reports are filtering out today that Microsoft is targeting a Spring 2015 release of their next generation operating system, code named "Windows Threshold." Redmond reportedly is done with optimizing ...

So, question about KMS activation, as it relates to Windows 7. We already have a KMS server which activates Windows 2008R2 servers. Works great. So, I want to have a few Windows 7 machines I am ...

Microsoft released the first important update for Windows 10 on Nov. 12, offering new and interesting features. Some of them, however, are less obvious to the user. In short, computers that get the ...