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 ...

Here in the ExtremeTech bunker, where bleeding-edge tech comes to meet its maker, most of us have now been using Windows 8 for a few days. Here are some of the tips and tricks we've learnt. Share on ...

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 ...