Microsoft's Chief Product Officer, Panos Panay, has today shared a video celebrating one billion users on Windows 10 that gives us an interesting look into what Microsoft is thinking about when it ...

Just as expected, Microsoft has revealed the long-rumored Project Neon – Windows 10’s big UI refresh – at its Build conference in Seattle. Except, it has a new name: The Microsoft Fluent Design System ...

At some point in the not-too-distant future, Microsoft will roll out an updated version of Windows 10 with its Sun Valley UI overhaul, consisting of a refreshed Start menu and other visual ...

Microsoft may not be releasing numerical upgrades to its Windows operating system these days (which is to say we will never see a Windows 11), but it is constantly tweaking and, at times, even ...

A new interface for the in-box Alarms & Clock apps is now in testing with Insiders. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Alarms & ...

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There’s an old adage about Microsoft Windows: the good versions skip a generation. Windows Vista was bad, Windows 7 was good and Windows 8 was bad again, so it’s not much of a spoiler to say that ...

Microsoft’s decision to put two user interfaces (UIs) inside Windows 8 was a strategic mistake that fails novice and experienced computer users alike on both tablets and traditional PCs, a usability ...

Anyone who has any experience with Microsoft's Metro UI whether through Windows Phone, or the highly Metro-esque updated dashboard for Xbox 360 will already have formed an accurate impression as to ...

Can Windows 8’s modern UI replace the traditional desktop? That’s the question everyone’s been asking since Microsoft released Windows 8 last October. Thus far, the consensus theory has been a ...

Microsoft said Friday that it is abandoning the “Aero” user interface with Windows 8, calling the UI that debuted in Vista and continued in Windows 7, “cheesy” and “dated.” In a massive 11,300-word ...