If you were worried that, like Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 would be locked in landscape mode, fear not! On the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft has outlined that while landscape is certainly the ...

After a lot of fluster on the Building Windows 8 blog, the Release Preview is actually surprisingly similar to the Consumer Preview. Multi-monitor improvements are in, and Metro IE now supports Flash ...

Microsoft trumpets Windows 8 refresh/reset as a feature, but actually reveals bloated Windows 7 legacy code it's carting around The latest post on the Building Windows 8 blog talks about the OS’s new ...

For all of those curious about Microsoft’s (News - Alert) next operating system, the company has been gradually doling out details about Windows 8 through a blog dubbed “Building Windows 8.” Kicked ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

The "Metro" interface of Windows 8 is aimed at unifying the user experience, regardless of platform. One of the hallmarks of Microsoft's <a href="http://www.techflash ...

Microsoft wants your digital pictures to be as easy to browse as your physical ones. The new Photos app for Windows 8 was designed from the ground up to access images from several sources and make ...

Microsoft released a consumer preview of its next operating system, Windows 8, Wednesday as the company tries to bolster its core business. The Post's Hayley Tsukayama reports: The new system has been ...

Firefox and Chrome may not be allowed on locked Windows 8 tablets despite the speed with which Mozilla and Google have jumped on making their browsers compatible with the new Microsoft operating ...

is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is preparing to send reminders to Windows 8.1 users that support ...