Last September, Microsoft showed off Windows 8 in public for the first time. One glance at the operating-system upgrade–heavily influenced by the company’s inventive Windows Phone–was enough to tell ...

Desperate times lead to desperate measures, and the PC makers' desperation has led them to a three-headed Franken-PC PC makers are watching their market shrivel, and after a year of hoping the ...

Microsoft has just announced that, starting today, you can now pre-order Windows 8 Pro. The normal price for the disc is $199.99, but during the upgrade promotion period, the package will cost $69.99, ...

PCMag.com’s Michael Muchmore has helpfully performed an array of speed tests of various sorts on the Release Preview of Windows 8, comparing it to Windows 7. The news is mostly good: Windows 8, which ...

Microsoft has released technical design details about the new version of Windows for laptops and other computers that use ARM chips. Called WOA (for Windows on ARM), the Windows 8 variation is still ...

NEW YORK - Microsoft's Windows 8 software appears to be driving buyers away from PCs and toward smartphones and tablets, research firm IDC said Wednesday. That's leading to the fastest drop in PC ...

Windows 8 has had a tough run, and the number of people taking issue with the OS keeps growing. Now Samsung executive Jun Dong-soo has taken shots at the operating system, blaming it for not improving ...

Windows 8.1 has languished as Microsoft seeks to move past its failure, while Apple has extended its Mac OS into an intriguing new direction With OS X 10.10 Yosemite now shipping and Windows 8.1 done ...