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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We've been fans of Splashtop's remote access apps for quite awhile, so when we heard the company was working on a new remote desktop app for Windows 8, we jumped at the chance to take it for a test ...

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 ...

Microsoft has taken some flak for the purported condition of Windows 8 in recent weeks; Intel and Redmond tangled on the topic last week in a bit of corporate he-said/she-said. A new blog post from ...

Win8DE brings the Windows 8 vibe to Linux. Win8DE is a Wayland shell (not a full DE) that runs on Sway, Hyperland, River, and Labwc. Features include drag-and-drop Start tiles, app search, ...

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 ...