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, ...

On Friday, October 26, Microsoft will unleash Windows 8 -- the result of more than three years of work by one of the world's largest cross-disciplinary software and hardware engineering teams, and ...

It may seem awkward that the first thing you'll want to do with Windows 8 is make it more like Windows 7, but for many of us who rely on our desktops, that's exactly the case. In this article I'll ...

What is so strange to me is the power users that swear they don't mind the Metro desktop at all. I have been using Win / OSX / many LInux Distro's for years and I moved on to Linux Mint from ubuntu ...

Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 and released it to the world. As you can read in our visual history of Windows, the operating ...

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I did it. I took the Windows 8 plunge. After vowing to buy a new desktop PC with Windows 7 — I balked at the idea of learning a new OS while also dealing with the hassle of reinstalling applications ...

Wait, you're telling me Windows 8 (and what I assume is the GPO portion on Server 2012) didn't ship with the abilities to do this? I really hope that is not indicative of how much thought to ...