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 ...

The bad news is that the Consumer Preview (build 8250) has removed some useful things and introduced a few new flaws, not least of which is failing to install at least once on a machine with more than ...

Microsoft’s Windows 8 Consumer Preview press conference is still underway, but the beta software is already available for download. For most users who want to try out Windows 8, the Setup file is the ...

We know that Windows 8 is primarily a tablet and touch-first operating system, but -- assuming everything goes to plan -- it will also be used on hundreds of millions of desktop PCs around the world.

Microsoft's Windows 8 pre-installed apps have been outed ahead of the operating system's Consumer Preview. The company plans to bundle the communication tools Mail, Calendar, People, and Messaging ...