Want to test the wild new waters of Windows 8 but don't want to lose your current Windows setup? You can do this with the Windows 8 installer, which can create ...

Internet Explorer 10 serves dual roles as the default Metro and desktop browser, and its HTML5 support breaks new ground for a Microsoft browser.Windows 8's ...

Will you upgrade to Windows 8? Will you get it on a new PC? On a tablet? Or do you plan to skip it as you may have skipped Vista? For those willing to dip ...

We've heard it before: The next version of Windows is going to start up way faster and run faster than the last. With Windows 7, we were told that we could ...

Windows 8 is only out in a Release Preview so far, but there are already a ton of new Metro-style apps built just for it—all free. Here's our pick of the ...

Sure, most of the fanfare about Windows 8 has centered on its use in tablets, but the operating system is also designed for laptops and desktops. If you have ...

Ahead of Schedule." That's not a phrase you hear often when referring to an operating system launch. Windows 8 Release Preview bucks that trend by a smidge: ...

Yesterday at an event in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Apple not only let the world in on details about its new iPad, but also showed off ...

We've seen the developer preview, and we're about to get a beta of Microsoft's next major platform, Windows 8. Here's what we know about it. Most people ...

An article like this requires a lot of caveats and many large grains of salt. But we were interested to see what would happen if we compared the performance ...