Last September, Microsoft showed off Windows 8 in public for the first time. One glance at the operating-system upgrade–heavily influenced by the company’s inventive Windows Phone–was enough to tell ...

The flagship Currys & PC World store in London is to open at midnight on Friday for the launch of Windows 8, Microsoft's much-anticipated new touch-enabled computer operating system. The window at the ...

Windows 8, the Ultrabook, and HP's second thoughts about exiting the desktop market suggest that competition for users' hearts and minds is far from over You’ve seen the numbers: IDC predicts a ...

NEW YORK - While Microsoft is touting next week's launch of Windows 8 as the savior of the computer industry, PC makers and analysts are increasingly skeptical that the new operating system will lure ...

Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...

Even if your old PC is no longer officially suitable for Windows 11, it does not have to become electronic waste. For many ...

On Friday, I responded to Paul Thurrott's report that the first few weeks of Windows 8 sales have been disappointing by saying that Windows 8 is a long bet — and it therefore doesn't matter much what ...

Samsung has announced plans to release a Windows 8 PC by mid-2012. Bloomberg reports that the firm is working on a modified version of its Series 7 laptop optimised to take advantage of the Microsoft ...