Windows 95 was a huge marketing event. Windows XP saw sustained adoption. Vista was a disaster. Windows 7 fixed the Vista debacle and sparked a PC upgrade cycle among consumers and corporations. And ...

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 Windows 8 Consumer Preview isn’t the only new Microsoft download of interest to businesses. Also recently released was its Product Guide for Business, a 15-page PDF file that explores the most ...

With $25, an iPad and a bit of curiosity, you can try Windows 8 on a tablet right now. Splashtop, a maker of remote desktop software, has released a $25 iPad app called Win8 Metro Testbed. If you’ve ...

As the Oct. 26 launch date for Windows 8 creeps closer, more information about Microsoft’s next operating system is trickling out. I’m not talking about the major ideas, about which we’ve learned ...

Windows 8 has delivered no bump to flagging consumer PC sales in the U.S., a retail research analyst said today. “There wasn’t any pop at all,” said Steven Baker of the NPD Group. “The hope was that ...

If you move quickly, before servers all over the world start groaning under the load, you can get an early official copy of Windows 8 Release Preview Microsoft promised to deliver Windows 8 Release ...

Since the release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview last week, a nagging question has been hounding speed-hogs everywhere: just how much faster is Windows 8 than Windows 7? We decided to find out for ...

Microsoft today announced that customers had downloaded more than 1 million copies of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview in its first day of availability. The company released the preview Wednesday around ...