With Windows 8.1, Microsoft demonstrates that it's heard the criticisms, and has responded with impressive improvements for desktop and touch tablet users. The Preview version of the updated operating ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Microsoft said Wednesday that Windows 8 users who prefer ...

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 ...

It's been 16 years since the jump from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95. In that time we've seen mobile phones dominate train journeys, three atrocious Star Wars films and Sony ousting Sega from the console ...

Of the many missteps that could be laid at Microsoft’s door, the move to Windows 8 ranks as one of the biggest. Driven by a forgivable logic, Microsoft wanted to produce an operating system that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As expected, Steven Sinofsky, head of Microsoft’s Windows division, has just been providing a first look at the ...

Windows 8.1 update 2 is speculated to be released on 12 August. Microsoft will reportedly release the Windows 8.1 update 2 on 12 August for users currently on its Windows 8.1 OS. One feature that ...

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, ...

PCMag.com’s Michael Muchmore has helpfully performed an array of speed tests of various sorts on the Release Preview of Windows 8, comparing it to Windows 7. The news is mostly good: Windows 8, which ...

Microsoft has officially released Windows 8.1 - an update to its Windows 8 operating system - during a keynote speech at its annual developers conference in San Francisco. The free test version of the ...

It's been confirmed by Microsoft that Windows 10 will work at a lower resolution than both Windows 8 and 8.1 when it is released this summer. At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in ...