Whether you want it or not, Microsoft will release its Windows 8 operating system on October 26. The new OS upends the familiar Start menu-based interface you’ve known since Windows 95 in favor of one ...

Outlook.com’s Calendar is the latest Microsoft service to get modern-style makeover designed to match the visual style of Windows 8. It’s a much-needed makeover, and it even includes some features you ...

In late March, the first builds of Windows 8.1 leaked to the Web. At about the same time, the number of Windows 8 apps reversed several months of slowing growth and charted four straight months of app ...

Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...

Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...

What’s next for Microsoft Windows? With Windows 7 now 19 months old, plenty of people are curious about its successor, a product that everybody’s calling Windows 8, even though it hasn’t been ...