I like writing about Windows 8. But every time I do — like right now, as I’ve been working on a post on Windows 8.1 — I’m bedeviled by the same conundrum. It’s minor but aggravating, and it confronts ...

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 ...

After over a decade of trying to stretch the Windows user interface to include mobile devices, Windows 8 promises to go the other way -- taking the Windows Phone interface and grafting it onto Windows ...

Microsoft's Windows 8 Start screen UI wasn't shown off fully until mid-2011, but the company is now starting to show off mockups of how the software maker envisioned it back in 2010. Jensen Harris, ...

You can’t judge a book by its cover — or a software product by its version number. That’s always been particularly true of Microsoft Windows. The most famous ...

Windows 8 rates as Microsoft’s latest bet-your-company move, with the computer industry rapidly adopting mobile platforms. For Windows 8 to thrive in the corporate environment, however, it has to not ...

Late yesterday, Microsoft unveiled the new Windows 8 user interface -- or rather, the new Start Menu, and a hint of what Windows 8 apps will look and feel like. The new Start Menu -- or home screen -- ...

Tim Greene envies designed-for-Windows-8 hardware: When [Windows 8] is finalized and installed on devices that were designed specifically to support it the experience should be better. … In the ...

Twitter has finally released a dedicated app for Windows 8 devices in the Windows Store. Alongside standard Twitter features such as Me, Connect and Discover, the app has functionality tailored ...

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 ...