Microsoft will attempt to claw back territory from Apple and Google Friday with a new version of Windows in an increasingly fierce battle over computer operating systems. Use of Apple devices, along ...

USATODAY.COM - You already knew from the early "developer preview" of Windows 8 that Microsoft released in September just how radically different this version of the ...

TAIPEI/PALOS VERDES, California (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp showed off a version of its next operating system at technology conferences in the United States and Taipei, as some PC makers grumbled over ...

Back in 2012, Microsoft took a gamble in releasing its Windows 8 operating system. The desktop OS featured a bold new design language, a new touch-centric UI paradigm, and the infamous Live Tiles.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates calls the new Windows 8 operating system "a very exciting new product" from the world's largest software maker. Gates told The Associated Press on Thursday that he is ...

The latest pre-release version of the Windows 8 operating system will become available during the first week of June, a Microsoft executive said Tuesday in Tokyo. The Windows 8 “Release Preview” will ...

Microsoft is firing back with a little pop of its own amid criticism that its Windows 8 operating system is like New Coke, which fizzled after its debut. A communications executive for the Redmond, ...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates Thursday called the new Windows 8 operating system scheduled for release next month "a very exciting new product" and "a very big deal" for the world's largest software ...

Microsoft has confirmed a Start button is returning to the desktop mode's taskbar of its Windows 8 operating system. The lack of the facility - which had been in every previous version since Windows ...

Microsoft has launched the latest preview of its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, bringing various improvements to what the firm is billing as the "most important piece of work we've done".

TAIPEI/PALOS VERDES, California (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp showed off a version of its next operating system at technology conferences in the United States and Taipei, as some PC makers grumbled over ...