Whether you want it or not, Microsoft will release its Windows 8 operating system on October 26. The new OS upends the familiar Start menu-based interface you’ve known since Windows 95 in favor of one ...

News reports say that the Windows Store in Windows 8 has "20,000 apps", most of which are free, in its global store, but is this really true? The number of apps in Microsoft’s “Windows Store” for ...

As technology continues to evolve, the demand for tools that enhance the Windows experience grows stronger. In 2025, a new wave of applications is reshaping how users interact with their systems, ...

Where are the apps? That's the question we asked in our review of the Microsoft Surface, and it's one of the bigger question marks plaguing Microsoft's Windows 8 launch. At today's Build 2012 kick-off ...

Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...

If Windows 8 is going to take off in a way it has not yet done, it needs two kinds of apps: ones that do a fabulous job of taking advantage of its touch-friendly new Metro interface, and ones that ...