Windows 8 gives Microsoft a beautiful, responsive, and touch-friendly platform for tablets, but it works better on slates than the desktop.

A Metro interface by any other name is still a Metro interface, but it would be nice if Microsoft would clue us in on what to call it now. The Redmond company unceremoniously dumped the Metro branding...

Watch your back, Microsoft. The ThinkPad Tablet 2 could be a Surface killer. As the first Windows 8 tablet powered by Intel's upcoming Atom processor for mobile devices, this slate will be able to run...

Ever since Microsoft introduced Windows 8's Metro interface, the response has been mixed. Some people love it, other people hate it. Soon, the Metro haters will find themselves with nothing to complai...

Microsoft announced today that Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing (RTM), marking a big milestone in the production of Microsoft's new operating system. Previous releases have been a part of ...

We keep hearing over and over that email is dead, but Microsoft just gave it a serious shock to the system--if not a second lease on life. A major upgrade to Hotmail, Outlook.com was designed from the...

While Microsoft'sSurfaceis going head to head with its tablet partners, the company is also rolling out new hardware to help its Windows 8 allies. Coming soon are two new mice and two keyboards ...

Most people focus on the love-it-or-hate-it Metro interface when they think of Windows 8, but the next iteration of Microsoft's classic operating system is coming with a lot of intriguing behind the s...

Microsoft has announced via its Windows Team Blog, that Windows 8 will officially go on sale on Oct. 26th. That fits with our previous expectations that the operating system would land sometime in late fall.