Clouds in Windows 8. Also part of Microsoft’s list of Windows 8 engineering teams was a group called “Windows Online.” It’s not clear what that team might be doing, but there are a large ...

Windows has been Microsoft's most reliable cash cow for nearly three decades. The software giant is gambling all of that success on what it deems to be the company's future: a radically redesigned ...

A guide to Microsoft Windows 8 Ed Rhee/CNET How to run Desktop and Metro programs in Windows 8. Next, you'll see a mosaic of Live Tiles, each representing an application.

Windows 8 is officially toast. Microsoft has pulled the plug on Windows 8's life support. It told customers they need to upgrade to Windows 8.1 -- or better yet, Windows 10 -- to continue ...

Windows 8 development began in the spring of 2010, and Microsoft held an all-team event for the Windows org (around 5,000 people) at the Seattle Convention Center.

The company will also introduce Quick Machine Recovery (QMR), a recovery mechanism for machines that cannot restart successfully. In a widespread outage, Microsoft can use QMR to deploy fixes to ...

Microsoft had a chance to fix Windows’ long-messy application update process with the launch of that Store app alongside Windows 8 in 2012. Instead, it spent more than a decade flailing — training PC ...

Microsoft wants to move on from Windows 8.1, which it launched in 2013 to cover up the stink of Windows 8. The company has announced the end of Windows 8.1 support will hit in January 2023, ...

Microsoft recently released Windows 8, the latest client version of the Windows operating system. Available in four versions — three for x86-based personal computers, and one for ARM processor-based ...