When the ExtremeTech staff met in October 2012 to divvy up Windows 8 coverage assignments, I volunteered to tackle the specific question of how Metro and Desktop applications would integrate and share ...

Windows 8 lives again on Linux, and I'm just as confused by it as you ...

Forget all of Microsoft’s hoopla about Windows 8‘s new Metro interface. If you’re a power user who relies on lots of legacy software, you’ll still be spending most of your time with the classic ...

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.

For the past few months, Microsoft has observed while techies dug into the Windows 8 “Consumer Preview“–in geek parlance, the beta. The result is several big changes to the operating system, many of ...

Buying a new Windows 8 device isn’t as simple as, say, picking up a new Android tablet. The device-spanning nature of the overhauled operating system means Windows works on a vast array of hardware, ...

Microsoft has released the full, final version of Windows 8 to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, and a free 90-day trial to everyone else. We go hands on, to see just how slick it is on a touchscreen ...

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 ...

Looking back at Windows 8 and Surface promos shows how creative Microsoft once was with promotions and why it may need a Windows 11.1 update.