Windows 10 retail is almost upon us and today we wanted to take another look at Windows 8.1 - as it stands this year. Based ...

The company has announced the end of Windows 8.1 support will hit in January 2023, at which point anyone still running Microsoft's old OS will be unprotected from any new system vulnerabilities that ...

Redmond reverses course (again) and makes the "gold" Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 bits available to developers and volume licensees ahead of the October 18 general-availability date. Mary Jo ...

If Microsoft brings back the Start Button and adds a boot-to-desktop option with Windows Blue, should Windows developers still be counting on Metro as their future? Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has ...

After serving users for almost ten years, support for Windows 8.1, Microsoft’s serially overlooked operating system, has officially come to an end. This means that while computers running 8.1 will ...

Forget about the desktop improvements and Bing Smart Search: Windows 8.1’s biggest draw may be the sheer volume of new and hidden features. Seriously—it’s jam-packed. But apparently Microsoft needed ...

Businesses with certain Microsoft memberships and service agreements can now download the near-final version of Windows 8.1 to test with an eye toward enterprise deployment, the company says. Starting ...

There aren't many Windows users still running Windows 8.1 these days. But those who are may (or may not) know that support for the 8.1 release is going to end on January 10, 2023. Just to make sure ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is preparing to send reminders to Windows 8.1 users that support will ...

The company began pushing new Edge to Windows 10 users in June, shortly after deprecating legacy Edge on Windows 10. Unlike the old Edge, the new Edge isn't exclusive to Windows 10 and runs on macOS, ...

Looking back at Windows 8 and Surface promos shows how creative Microsoft once was with promotions and why it may need a ...

Microsoft of today isn't known for taking chances, but it wasn't always like that. In 2012, the company released Windows 8, designed to be tablet-friendly, but it landed awkwardly in the market. So ...