Windows 8 is now 15 years old. Here’s where it’s still being used

It feels like an age since Windows 8 was released. But in fact, it’s ‘only’ been 15 years. A look back at Windows 8 and where ...
VentureBeat

Top 10 Windows 8 apps — so far

Whether you want it or not, Microsoft will release its Windows 8 operating system on October 26. The new OS upends the familiar Start menu-based interface you’ve known since Windows 95 in favor of one ...
The Atlantic

What Kind of Windows 8 User Will You Be?

Last night Microsoft announced three cuts of its much anticipated new operating system: Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT. Unlike previous incarnations of its operating systems, Microsoft pared ...
Time

Windows 8 Speed: It's Not About the Benchmarks

PCMag.com’s Michael Muchmore has helpfully performed an array of speed tests of various sorts on the Release Preview of Windows 8, comparing it to Windows 7. The news is mostly good: Windows 8, which ...
Digital Trends

I hope these 3 long-lost Microsoft Windows 8 features stay gone forever

If you used a Windows computer in the early 2010s, chances are you experienced Windows 8. Whether it was a good experience is another matter entirely, though. If you ask me, it was a bit of a disaster ...
Time

Windows 8: The Seven Roads Not Taken

In 1995, consumers in Sydney, Australia go gaga for Windows 95, Microsoft's most rapturously-received upgrade of all timeGetty Images On Friday, I responded to Paul Thurrott's report that the first ...