A customized Windows 8 start screen. (Click for larger view.) Posting from Anaheim: Microsoft isn’t kidding when it says Windows 8 will be the biggest overhaul of its flagship operating system since ...

Windows 8 was an ambitious operating system. Microsoft’s goal was, and still is, to have a single operating system that can span the traditional PC, the tablet, and everything in between. To do this, ...

I have a confession to make: I never tried the Windows 8 consumer preview. You see, I've been a lifelong Windows user (I can remember my parents making a big deal out of our switch to Windows 3.1), ...

Windows 8 lives again on Linux, and I'm just as confused by it as you ...

Early this month, Microsoft dropped something of a bombshell on Windows developers: the new Windows 8 touch-friendly immersive style would use a developer platform not based on .NET, which Microsoft ...

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As Windows 8 is designed to be used on mobile devices as well as desktop computers, it includes a feature called metered connections. A metered connection is a network connection where you have a ...