In late March, the first builds of Windows 8.1 leaked to the Web. At about the same time, the number of Windows 8 apps reversed several months of slowing growth and charted four straight months of app ...

Today at the Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft formally announced Windows Phone 8 for the first time. “Today, for the first time, we are here to preview the first chapter in our Windows ...

Microsoft’s new UWP-friendly tools bridge the gap between the old and the new worlds of .NET to help old code into the latest .NET stack. Microsoft’s journey to today’s Windows App SDK and Win UI as a ...

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 ...

In May 2024, Microsoft announced the Windows Copilot Runtime. Targeted at its then-new Copilot+ PCs, it provided a mix of innovations, from on-device small language models to improvements to Windows’ ...

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.

Windows 8.1 is now displaying full-screen alerts when logging into the operating system, warning that the OS is reaching the end of support in January 2023 and will no longer receive security updates.

Steam has finally stopped working on several older Windows operating systems, following a warning from Valve that it planned to drop support earlier this year. With little fanfare, Windows 7 and ...

In previous versions of Windows, the Start Menu was a fast way to find and launch programs . Microsoft killed it in Window 8, but if you're a fan of it, it's easy to get it back. One of the worst ...