Microsoft blended the Windows 7 interface with its new Metro UI. Metro UI was entirely different from the UIs Windows had ...

Microsoft hopes to improve usability with new features in Windows 8.1. June 26, 2013 — -- Microsoft has slowly released details of the next version of Windows 8 -- Windows 8.1-- over the past ...

Someone recreated Windows 8.1's tiled Start menu for Linux — a niche, open-source throwback. It's Python-based, supports ...

Following are the client versions of Windows 8 and 8.1. When upgrading to Windows 8 from an existing Windows operating system via download, Windows 8 retains the same word size. For example, a 32-bit ...

When Windows 8 launched last October it seemed it might bring Microsoft into the touchscreen age. Today, with PC sales slipping and tablets rising, it’s starting to look like a necessary step taken a ...

Announcements and speculation about upcoming Windows 8 tablets are coming in fast. Lenovo recently announced the Windows 8-based ThinkPad Tablet 2, following companies such as Asus, Fujitsu, ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. While Microsoft didn’t quite hit 100,000 in time for its Build developers ...

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Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today’s Windows experience doesn’t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s ...

Windows 10 launched on July 29th and has already been downloaded over 14 million times. But why? Microsoft ’s decision to make Windows 10 free plays a big part (especially given warnings to wait) but ...

As it has quickly become the new Windows standard, like XP before it, Windows 10 gets better and better with each major update. At its core, Windows 10 combines the best features of Windows 7 and 8 ...

We know that many people think that moving to a touchscreen was something that was overdue for Windows. And we have no complaints whatsoever about how well the interface behaves on a touchscreen. The ...