Even in a multi-part review, it's almost impossible to cover every perceivable feature of a Windows operating system, but there are a few new niceties that we'd like to shed a little light on. For ...

Windows 7's multitouch interface uses the Microsoft Surface technology to provide users with a more natural way to interact directly with computing devices Microsoft demonstrated its multitouch ...

Microsoft's new OS gives you more options for viewing and manipulating windows and screen elements, and also ribbon-izes Paint and WordPad. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

Windows 7 will come with a cool multitouch user interface, allowing you to touch the screen of your computer and perform actions with simple gestures. But it looks like BumpTop is going to make that ...

Yesterday at CES, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the public availability of the Windows 7 beta release. At PC World we’ve been running our own evaluations of the forthcoming replacement to ...

Microsoft plans to backport a “ribbon” user interface feature it introduced in Windows 7 to Windows Vista, according to the company’s developer Web site. On the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), ...

The New York Times' Nick Bilton poses an interesting question on the Bits blog on February 25: Should and could PC operating systems look more like mobile operating systems? In Microsoft's case, that ...