Microsoft isn’t kidding when it says Windows 8 will be the biggest overhaul of its flagship operating system since the landmark Windows 95 release. Application tiles will replace icons ...

Kinda. Touch is baked into the basic Windows 8 interface, and it shows up in the core, universal interactions that bring up the operating system's user interface: swipes from the right screen edge ...

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 on our polls a substantial percentage of KitGuru readers didn't move to ...

How to use System Restore from the Windows 8 Recovery Environment System Restore is a Windows service that runs in the backgrouns and creates restore points, or snapshots, of your operating system ...

Released in August 1995, Windows 95 was one of the defining operating systems of ... Perhaps most notably of all, macOS 8.1 introduced the HFS+ file system, which Apple continued to use until ...

With Windows 8, the software giant is presenting a counter-argument to Apple's Mac and iPad strategy, suggesting that customers will want one operating system to handle all their computing needs.

It's the end of the line for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. These older versions of Windows (plus Windows RT) stop receiving all security updates today, over a decade after their original releases.

Windows 8 was meant to be a new era for the operating system, built from the ground up with touch controls and tablets in mind. It wasn’t meant to last, though. In the ruin of Windows 8 ...