Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has ...

I’d bet that if you polled 10 PC users on the best way to use the desktop on Windows you’d get 11 different answers. How to use the desktop is one of the most personal choices each PC user makes.

In brief: Microsoft is scheduled to put another of its legacy operating systems out to pasture in the near future. Anyone still using the aging OS needs to start getting serious about transitioning to ...

On October 26, 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8, a hybrid tablet/desktop operating system that took bold risks but garnered mixed reviews. Ten years later, we’ve caught up with former Windows ...

From cloud PCs and smart TVs to Chromebooks, Macs, and Linux systems, everyone is betting on traditional Windows desktop applications. Good news for PC users: Windows desktop software isn’t going ...

Dell’s Venue 8 Pro is an 8 inch tablet with an Intel Atom Bay Trail processor, 32GB of storage, 2GB of RAM, and Windows 8.1 software. So while it’s about the size (and price) of an iPad mini, you can ...

It’s the end of the line for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. These older versions of Windows (plus Windows RT) stop receiving all security updates today, over a decade after their original releases.

Slowly but surely, Microsoft is getting users to leave Windows 8 behind and move on to Windows 8.1. According to Netmarketshare, usage of Windows 8.1 reached 6.35 percent of the overall operating ...

In a world defined by security holes and data breaches, maybe a locked-down Windows isn't such a bad idea after all. Read now Windows 8.1 has passed another important milestone, going out of ...