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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Good artists borrow, great artists steal!” — Pablo Picasso said it. So did T.S. Eliot. And, more recently, Steve Jobs. Let’s face it: If something makes sense and succeeds, it gets imitated. Though ...

Tim Greene envies designed-for-Windows-8 hardware: When [Windows 8] is finalized and installed on devices that were designed specifically to support it the experience should be better. … In the ...

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 ...

In a post on the Building Windows 8 blog, Chris Jones, vice-president of Windows Live Group at Microsoft, explained that consumer feedback indicated that users were confused, as the services and apps ...

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 ...

There’s a lot of hype around Windows 8 these days. Just this week, Windows chief Steven Sinofsky released the first post of the Building Windows 8 blog, which promises an inside look from the Windows ...

This right here is a critically important improvement to the OS. This is currently what keeps me from ever tethering my laptop: how do I know what programs are using tons of data without me even ...