Last night Microsoft announced three cuts of its much anticipated new operating system: Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT. Unlike previous incarnations of its operating systems, Microsoft pared ...

Jakob Nielsen says that Microsoft's new operating system is plagued by "hidden features [and] reduced discoverability," among other issues. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who ...

According to StatCounter, Windows 8 and 8.1 still account for about 4.3 percent of the Windows install base worldwide, far less than Windows 11, Windows 10, or even Windows 7. But for the people still ...

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 has decided that Visual Studio 11 ...

An expert on user interface design has called Windows 8 “disappointing” for novices and power users alike. Jakob Nielsen, principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, studied how a dozen experienced PC ...

Serious Windows users have long observed an unfortunate trend: every other release of Windows is disappointing. Windows 95 was pretty good. Windows 98 wasn't, but Windows 98 SE made things better.

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Oraldo Morales Ceballos recently moved to Windows 8, and can’t figure out how to log off as one user and log on as another. If you share your PC with another person, you know that logging off one ...

If you were worried that, like Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 would be locked in landscape mode, fear not! On the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft has outlined that while landscape is certainly the ...

In the two and a half years since the release of the first-generation iPad, tablets of various shapes and sizes have sparked a revolution among consumers, who are now no longer afraid to take their ...

In brief: Microsoft is scheduled to put another of its legacy operating systems out to pasture in the near future. Anyone still using the aging OS needs to start getting serious about transitioning to ...