A video tour of Microsoft's upcoming update shines a light on improvements to the Start screen, the search tool, and more. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. It’s been nearly 10 years since Windows 8 launched to the world as part of ...

Microsoft showed its first public demo of Windows 8 on Wednesday, and it’s not at all like the Windows operating systems you’ve come to know over the past 25 years. The next version of Microsoft’s ...

Computing Windows 8.1 RTM leak reveals major changes to reduce hatred from first-time users With the final build of Windows 8.1 due to land in the next few days, a leaked version (build 9741) has made ...

Ready to jump into Windows 8? As if the switch from the Windows 7 interface to the Windows 8 way of doing things wasn't bad enough, deciding what type of Windows 8 or Windows RT device to purchase is ...