Consider the following: Internet Explorer 11 is available as a preview for Windows 7 or as part of the Windows 8.1 preview, but not for Windows 8. Similarly, PowerShell 4 will run on Windows 7 or ...

Death has come to a technology that has been loved by many for more than 12 years. Microsoft announced earlier that its support for Windows XP ends April 8. It has decided to invest its resources ...

Windows 8 is even more reliant on PC hardware than earlier versions, and proud of it, too. Take one of the most common complaints about Windows 8, the removal of the Start button from the desktop ...

We’ve known for a while now that Windows 8 has not been a great help to the PC platform, but new data suggests that consumers really don’t like Microsoft’s new operating system. A new study released ...

Chances are that Windows Hello, a Windows 10 feature designed to recognize you and wake up your PC, will instead give you a blank stare. The promise of Windows Hello is that it eliminates the need for ...

Hello Windows 8, so nice to finally meet you—and Microsoft certainly helped us get acquainted at today’s Windows 8 developer presentation. We learned about the new touch-driven interface, how it runs ...

SAN FRANCISCO — I’m here in (almost) the front row at Microsoft’s Build developer conference. The company is getting ready to kick things off with a keynote address that will likely focus heavily on ...

When Windows 8 entered beta and Microsoft showed off its new apps and design style, they called it Metro. But after some legal headaches, the company stopped referring to them as 'Metro' apps and went ...