Windows 10 retail is almost upon us and today we wanted to take another look at Windows 8.1 - as it stands this year. Based ...

Microsoft has closed one of the loopholes allowing those with older PCs from freely upgrading to Windows 10 and Windows 11. If you own a Windows 7 or Windows 8 PC, you’ll need to buy a new license to ...

For more than seven years, it's been one of the worst-kept secrets in personal computing. Officially, Microsoft's free upgrade offer ended in 2016, but no one in Redmond bothered to reset the ...

Rest in peace now, brave hero. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Windows 10 is dead. Well, nearly anyway. The much-beloved ...

On October 26, 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8, a hybrid tablet/desktop operating system that took bold risks but garnered mixed reviews. Ten years later, we’ve caught up with former Windows ...

PC buyers are heading into a generational break point where operating systems and processors are finally moving in lockstep.

A little off topic, but what's really frustrating is Microsoft's unwillingness to change aspects of Windows that are truly in dire need of change while doing all this UI experimentation, Off the top ...