Microsoft’s Windows 8 developer preview has been out for about a month, and the software giant is ready to discuss some new changes to Windows 8 based on user feedback. In an incredibly long and ...

Microsoft is bringing more of the Metro user interface to Windows 8’s desktop, swapping frosted glass for sharp edges and minimalist icons. The aesthetic change, spotted by Engadget, was quietly ...

Microsoft has cooked up some new power-management technology in Windows 8 that it says will better preserve battery life and reduce overall energy consumption. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

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 ...

In the latest 'Building Windows 8' blog post, Microsoft details the challenges it has faced supporting both USB 3.0 and older USB devices in the upcoming OS. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

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 ...

Microsoft trumpets Windows 8 refresh/reset as a feature, but actually reveals bloated Windows 7 legacy code it's carting around The latest post on the Building Windows 8 blog talks about the OS’s new ...

Tim Greene envies designed-for-Windows-8 hardware: When [Windows 8] is finalized and installed on devices that were designed specifically to support it the experience should be better. … In the ...

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 ...

All I care about is Windows not slowing down horribly after months of use as Windows 7 seems to like to do, and the backup and restore not sucking so hard as Windows 7's backup does. On iOS ...