The teasing's over: more than 1 million of you have got your hands on the Consumer Preview that enables you to see exactly what Microsoft's up to with Windows 8. The new OS has an exciting new ...

The full-screen Start screen, the charm bar and the new smartphone-style apps (known at the time as Metro) that opened in their own windows were the most obvious new features of Windows 8 (and the ...

We've heard it before: The next version of Windows is going to start up way faster and run faster than the last. With Windows 7, we were told that we could expect 15 second boot times, but that sure ...

Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 - How do they compare and is it worth upgrading to Microsoft's latest operating system?(Microsoft/IBTimes UK) Microsoft/IBTimes UK Microsoft's latest operating ...

I've put both operating systems through their paces, selected categories for a head-to-head competition, and then chosen a winner in each category It’s the best of times if you’re a lover of operating ...

In just a few months time Microsoft will officially end support for its hugely popular Windows 7 operating system. This radical move means that, from January 2020, users of the ageing operating system ...

Microsoft is enjoying enormous success with its next-generation operating system, Windows 10. Just eight months into its life-cycle, Windows 10 already accounts for an impressive 12.6 per cent of the ...