Windows 8 is the biggest change to Windows since the original Windows 95. Whether you’ve been playing with the consumer preview, intrigued by the direction Microsoft is taking, or worried that you may ...

Windows 8 is a big flop. Its Frankenstein interface combines two fundamentally incompatible operating systems (Windows 7 and Metro) with two interaction styles (mouse/keyboard and touch). Sadly, ...

If you could synthesize a year's worth of mixed reviews into just a few words, Windows 8 would probably boil down to these three: confusing, contradictory, and unfinished. Today, almost exactly one ...

Microsoft on Monday posted a new ad titled “Windows 8: Introducing a New World of Apps.” The two-minute video, which clearly isn’t meant for TV, is an attempt to show off some of the great apps for ...

“Windows 8 on a desktop.” The very phrase makes some people recoil and instinctively mouse over their Start buttons. It’s too bad that the modern UI has proven so contentious, because aside from the ...