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 ...

(AP) Can’t decide if you want a PC or tablet? Now you won’t have to. With the release of Windows 8, computer makers are doing their best to blur the boundaries with an array of devices that mash ...

Windows 8 was perhaps the most controversial release from Microsoft in recent decades. Some praised its UI, while others ...

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 ...

To be certified as a fully-compliant, bona fide Windows 8 logo device, a prospective PC must replace its aging BIOS with the new-fangled Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). On the outset, ...