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 ...

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".

Microsoft blended the Windows 7 interface with its new Metro UI. Metro UI was entirely different from the UIs Windows had ...

(CNN) -- Upgrading to the new Windows 8 operating system is not nearly as complicated as it looks, despite Microsoft's sometimes muddled marketing. Getting used to using it is a different story. At ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...