When the ExtremeTech staff met in October 2012 to divvy up Windows 8 coverage assignments, I volunteered to tackle the specific question of how Metro and Desktop applications would integrate and share ...

Forget all of Microsoft’s hoopla about Windows 8‘s new Metro interface. If you’re a power user who relies on lots of legacy software, you’ll still be spending most of your time with the classic ...

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 ...

Buying a new Windows 8 device isn’t as simple as, say, picking up a new Android tablet. The device-spanning nature of the overhauled operating system means Windows works on a vast array of hardware, ...

The Sunday Dispatch, Greater Pittston’s local news source, has launched an application able to be used on computers and tablets using Windows 8 and Window RT. Nick DeLorenzo, director of Interactive ...