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 ...

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 ...

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 year is drawing to a close, so there’s a very good chance that you now find yourself staring straight down the gaping maw of Windows 8. Maybe someone gave you a new Windows tablet or PC as a gift.

Microsoft may launch the Consumer Preview (read: “open beta”) of Windows in on Feburary 29th. Members of the press recently recieved an invitation to a special Windows 8 Customer Preview event in ...

A special in-the-works Bing page is already providing some pointers to Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 "Consumer Preview" due out this month, though most of the links aren't yet working. Lance Whitney ...

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 ...