USATODAY.COM - You already knew from the early "developer preview" of Windows 8 that Microsoft released in September just how radically different this version of the ...

Windows 8.1 is finally here and with it Microsoft’s hopes of a second act for its flagship operating system. Windows 8, launched just under a year ago, was a bold attempt to propel the OS into the ...

Windows 8.1 is finally here and with it comes Microsoft’s hopes of a second act for its flagship operating system. Windows 8.1 is finally here and with it Microsoft’s hopes of a second act for its ...

(CNN) -- Upgrading to the new Windows 8 operating system is not nearly as complicated as it looks, despite Microsoft's sometimes muddled marketing. Getting used to using it is a different story. At ...

Ericuse165 asked people on the Windows forum what they thought of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. I offer my two cents. Microsoft has created a very confused and confusing operating system. Windows 8 ...

<b>commentary </b> The usability expert branded Microsoft's new operating system "disappointing." But his approach would lead to the kind of incremental improvements that have dogged Microsoft for ...

Microsoft will attempt to claw back territory from Apple and Google Friday with a new version of Windows in an increasingly fierce battle over computer operating systems. Use of Apple devices, along ...

Microsoft's Windows 8 Release Candidate is on tap and analysts are busy trying to handicap the financial implications. The reality is that Windows 8 is tricky for the beancounters to model given the ...

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time? If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 ...

Windows Me was unstable, unloved and unusable. But was it really the worst OS Microsoft ever produced – worse even than Windows 8? Twenty years ago this month Microsoft released a stink bomb of an ...