Windows 8: Big changes, big challenges

Feb 13, 2012
Windows still runs more than three-quarters of the world's PCs. And the upcoming Windows 8 is about Microsoft using that existing heft to power its way onto smaller screens too.

Microsoft shows off Windows 8

Sep 13, 2011
At yesterday's BUILD conference, Microsoft offered developers a preview of the new - and very catchily named - operating system, Windows 8. (It...

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Windows 8 will have an app store

Aug 18, 2011
Leave it to Microsoft to find a great idea and then copy it two years later. The company we used to call REDMOND SOFTWARE GIANT back in Seattle...

Microsoft unveils Windows 8

Jun 2, 2011
Microsoft showed off early prototypes of the new operating system at the All Things D conference yesterday. It has a much more tiled look, like a...

Windows 8 coming next year unless it's not

May 24, 2011
If you're the kind of person who gets excited about operating system news (well, maybe you should find some sort of hobby or do some volunteer work...