After two public beta releases and more than 1.24 billion hours of pre-release usage time worldwide, Windows 8 is finally here. The latest version of Windows heralds a new era for the world’s most ...

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview launches today, and it’s well worth a look. This is the most dramatic change to Windows in almost two decades. Here’s a quick visual tour of some of the things you can ...

Windows 8 has so much in common with Windows 7 that, you may be surprised to hear, there are times when Microsoft's new operating system doesn't feel any different at all. Yet continuing to use the ...

How Do You Use It? The Windows 8 acid test, as we like to call it, is to take someone who has never used the OS before, sit them in front of the Start screen and ask them to shut down the PC within 60 ...

Windows 8 no longer includes the traditional Start Menu that Windows users have become associated with using. Instead they replaced it with a new interface called the Windows Start Screen that many ...

Crapware is a fact of life for Windows PC buyers. Most of the time, it’s relatively harmless: limited anti-virus subscriptions you don’t want, WildTangent games and demoware you don’t need, and ...