The desktop in the Windows 8 beta offers no Start button and a few shortcuts. How can you easily populate it with your favorite programs? Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and ...

Microsoft’s decision to take a radical departure in the user interface of Windows 8 has many of its customers asking the same question. Microsoft has always had downgrade rights in place for its ...

Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...

You’ve probably heard a lot about Windows 8 and maybe you’re contemplating a new computer. Here is my experience. I’d been operating off a computer for 4 years that has gotten slow, a bit glitchy, and ...

Microsoft is poised to release Windows 8.1, a deep and crucial revamping of the Windows 8 ideal. The code is final (though Microsoft reserves the right to tweak it further), and the time for ...

I upgraded to Windows 8.1 a couple of days ago, and so far I've been happy. There are a couple of outliers though, and neither Mr. Google, Mr. Bing, nor Mr. DuckDuckGo have any answers so far. So, I ...