is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. It’s been nearly 10 years since Windows 8 launched to the world as part of ...

The year is drawing to a close, so there’s a very good chance that you now find yourself staring straight down the gaping maw of Windows 8. Maybe someone gave you a new Windows tablet or PC as a gift.

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 ...

A year later, with lackluster Windows 8 sales and a virtually nonexistent Windows 8 tablet market, it's clear that Microsoft got it wrong -- and now Windows 8.1 hopes to rectify some of those mistakes ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. A former Microsoft employee has revealed what the missing Windows 8 startup sound ...

In a Jan. 31 MSDN blog post, 'Sharad', who claims to be a member of Microsoft's Windows Update team, acknowledged fielding a growing number of outsider questions about Windows 8 but said it may not ...

U.S. shoppers woke up with mild Surface fever on Friday, lining up in moderate numbers to buy Microsoft's groundbreaking tablet computer designed to challenge Apple's iPad. The global debut of the ...

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time? If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 ...