Microsoft's Fall Creators Update for Windows 10 might have an ironically uncreative name, but the upgrade itself is flush with artistic potential and useful features. It will give users a timeline to ...

PDC attendees received the Windows 7 "Pre-Release Preview" as part of the goodies Microsoft distributed Tuesday afternoon. I have already installed the new OS on a spare computer at home, though as I ...

From its centered task bar to its revamped Start and Quick Settings menus, the recently released Windows 11 includes some of the most obvious changes to the venerable operating system since Windows 8 ...

With Windows 8, Microsoft did the unthinkable: The company designed a groundbreaking interface of boxes called Metro that could scale from laptops, to tablets, to phones, to Xboxes–meaning any ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about hardware and software YOU need to know about. May 19, 2012, 09:15am EDT May 21, 2012, 11:20am EDT This article is ...

Microsoft has reportedly removed the ability to activate Windows 11 and Windows 10 without an internet connection.

In November 2017, Microsoft announced Sets, a new idea for a tabbed interface in Windows 10, which would allow you to group apps in tabs in the same way that a browser arranges webpages. The firm ...

Every graying movie franchise needs a great sequel to give it a boost. Think Star Trek and James Bond. Operating systems are no different—especially Microsoft’s. After receiving a critical beatdown ...

It appears Microsoft wants to give the Windows interface a major overhaul in late 2021. No, for the love of God, no! I’m a lucky guy. I can pick up new operating systems and desktop interfaces at the ...

I've got a bad case of the Windows 8 Metro interface Blues. It looks like Microsoft will be releasing Windows Blue midyear, but the interface is going to be the same old Metro mess that's been giving ...

Microsoft appears to have put Microsoft Sets, the tabbed redesign of Windows, on hold, though it’s uncertain whether it’s been killed outright. Rich Turner, a senior product manager at Microsoft ...

Microsoft Corp. today officially revealed Windows 11, the next major release of its ubiquitous operating system, which brings major upgrades both to the interface with which users interact on a daily ...