After nearly a year’s worth of rumors and months of dabbling with the Developer Preview, the much-ballyhooed Windows 8.1 update finally—finally!—lands in the Windows Store Thursday. Microsoft’s ...

At Dell World, Microsoft's CEO digs deeper into the next version of Windows with a demo and discussion of four specific features. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

Microsoft took the wraps off Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 on Tuesday, revealing a dramatically different Windows for both users and application developers. It validated some of the rumors about ...

Thanks to two brief demonstrations of Microsoft’s next-generation operating system, third-party Microsoft Windows developers are expressing frustration over what they consider a lack of clear ...

Want to give Windows 8’s new look a try? Starting tonight, you’ll be able to download a Windows 8 developer preview release straight from Microsoft. The Windows 8 ...

From getting back your Start menu to tweaking the Metro UI, here's how to play better with Windows 8 Although it isn’t even in beta, the Windows 8 Developer Preview edition is already getting tweaked ...

The Metro interface in the Windows 8 Developer was designed for tablets, not for laptops or desktops. Because of that, it was quite unusable. To do anything of note, you had to switch to the Desktop.