All I care about is Windows not slowing down horribly after months of use as Windows 7 seems to like to do, and the backup and restore not sucking so hard as Windows 7's backup does. On iOS ...

If you were worried that, like Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 would be locked in landscape mode, fear not! On the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft has outlined that while landscape is certainly the ...

Fresh off the block from Computex, Microsoft's engineers at the Building Windows 8 blog have unleashed another blog post. The new details concern Windows 8's audio/visual playback engines, format ...

Wanting the inside track on the next iteration of Windows, which is expected next year? Microsoft’s launched a new blog written by the engineering team, and while they don’t give away too much yet, ...

For all of those curious about Microsoft’s (News - Alert) next operating system, the company has been gradually doling out details about Windows 8 through a blog dubbed “Building Windows 8.” Kicked ...

This past week, Windows president Steven Sinofsky published a blog post that gave considerable insight into the status of the upcoming Windows 8 on ARM architecture for tablets. ARM chips are largely ...

Steven Sinofsky outlined on the Building Windows 8 blog how users will be able to use Add Features to Windows 8 in Control Panel and purchase the same great Media Center experience that was included ...

At Dell World, Microsoft's CEO digs deeper into the next version of Windows with a demo and discussion of four specific features. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

Microsoft trumpets Windows 8 refresh/reset as a feature, but actually reveals bloated Windows 7 legacy code it's carting around The latest post on the Building Windows 8 blog talks about the OS’s new ...

Some Microsoft bosses like to develop out in the open, letting us follow almost every move (IE team, anyone?). Then there’s Steve Sinofsky, former head of the Office team and now leading up Windows.