Windows 8's eradication of the humble Start button prompted an outpouring of computing grief not seen since the demise of the floppy disk - but it may...

Bill Gates has admitted Microsoft's "mistakes" have left it behind on mobile phones. In an interview with CBS the Microsoft founder and current cha...

All Internet debates are focused on one thing: whether the eigth version is good for desktop computers and laptops or not.

New data suggests that the launch of Windows 8 might have been even weaker than previously thought. Microsoft launched Windows 8 last month with a ...

Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft's head of Windows, has left Microsoft the company said. He will leave "with immediate effect" just weeks after the launc...

Microsoft has worked hard before and since the launch of its Windows 8 operating system to educate users about how to manipulate the next-gen UI. U...

While news can move fast within the London fashion scene, it appears it moves even faster between the touch screens of the techies (maybe even faster than Azzedine Alaïa arrives on the set of Gossip Girl).

At midnight this morning Microsoft released Windows 8, its radical re-imagining of its flagship desktop (and now tablet) operating system. And yes,...

Microsoft releases its brand new operating system on Friday - Windows 8. And this time it really is different. If you haven't been following the lo...

There might only be one tablet computer on most peoples' minds this morning, but Microsoft is about to come out with its own competitor very soon - an...

The consumer tech industry is gearing up for what might be the biggest 10 days for gadgets in its recent history. Three of the largest and most imp...

Google is not the only tech company whose stocks plummeted on Thursday. Microsoft also suffered big losses - though they did at least release their...

It may not have escaped your attention that there's a new and very different version of Windows due out in October. Whilst Vista was XP in smart suit and Windows 7 was Vista that worked properly they didn't make major changes to the day-to-day experience. Windows 8 does, and how.

Samsung has unveiled its latest cross between a phone and a tablet - and yes, it's absolutely, ridiculously massive. The South Korean company rele...

Gartner, IT-journalists and even former employees of Microsoft agree: Windows 8 will be a disaster. The Metro interface designed for tablets (a marke...

Microsoft is bringing Xbox to Windows. Via Minesweeper. An Xbox gaming blog found references to the console brand in Windows 8, the upcoming re...

Nokia looks set to unveil the latest generation of its Lumia Windows Phone handsets. A brace of rumours suggest that the new devices will be unveil...

Along with jetpacks, moon bases and robot dogs that can fetch you a cup of tea, one of the most-requested 'future tech' products we get asked about al...

Nokia's Windows phones have the DNA to produce a tempting tablet. The engineering geniuses at Nokia and Qualcomm and the coders at Microsoft have an ultra-lean approach to mobile which has already made the attractive and efficient Nokia Lumia smartphones relatively inexpensive to make, based on a very fast single-core chip.

Microsoft has announced the new features of its upcoming Windows 8 smartphone operating system, including a more customisable home screen. Windows ...

Rumours that Microsoft is to launch a tablet to compete with the iPad have sprung up online. According to The Wrap, primarily an entertainment sit...

There isn't a day that passes without an article talking about the demise of PC and desktop computing in favour of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

Microsoft shared Windows 8 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today. "The first thing you're going to see with Windows 8 is that it's beautiful...

At the launch of Windows 8 Microsoft fired off dozens of announcements and showed off countless features of the new OS. Attendees of the build confere...

Microsoft has given its most extensive preview of the forthcoming release of Windows. Speaking at the company’s ‘Build’ conference, Steven Sinof...