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 announced an open dialog between itself and the ...

Most people with any interest in technology have now seen or maybe even had hands-on experience with Microsoft's next big thing: Windows 8. And it's clear most that the hybrid mobile-desktop operating ...

If you were worried that, like Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 would be locked in landscape mode, fear not! On the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft has outlined that while landscape is certainly the ...

After a lot of fluster on the Building Windows 8 blog, the Release Preview is actually surprisingly similar to the Consumer Preview. Multi-monitor improvements are in, and Metro IE now supports Flash ...

You've heard about the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, and you've read the early reviews which say, for example, that while it's great on a touchscreen (such as a tablet), it's jarring on the desktop. But ...

This past week, Windows president Steven Sinofsky published a blog post that gave considerable insight into the status of the upcoming Windows 8 on ARM architecture for tablets. ARM chips are largely ...

“Good artists borrow, great artists steal!” — Pablo Picasso said it. So did T.S. Eliot. And, more recently, Steve Jobs. Let’s face it: If something makes sense and succeeds, it gets imitated. Though ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Amid reports of slow adoption and a lukewarm response from consumers, Microsoft claimed Tuesday ...

Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system will not play DVDs unless customers buy an extra upgrade, the company has announced. Windows 8 will include an App Store, but no DVD support without an ...

Microsoft engineers said that Windows 8 will update basic file copy operations which the firm said had "not improved substantially in a long time." In a new post on the Buildings Windows 8 blog, ...

Microsoft wants your digital pictures to be as easy to browse as your physical ones. The new Photos app for Windows 8 was designed from the ground up to access images from several sources and make ...

Microsoft if finally updating Windows 8 UI elements from Windows 11. Legacy tools still exist, although fixes for some are ...