After over a decade of trying to stretch the Windows user interface to include mobile devices, Windows 8 promises to go the other way -- taking the Windows Phone interface and grafting it onto Windows ...

An expert on user interface design has called Windows 8 “disappointing” for novices and power users alike. Jakob Nielsen, principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, studied how a dozen experienced PC ...

David Glance worked at Microsoft between 1998 and 2001. Of the many missteps that could be laid at Microsoft’s door, the move to Windows 8 ranks as one of the biggest. Driven by a forgivable logic, ...

The software giant previews Windows 8, which has a new user interface, touch-computing capability, and rethinks the way people interact with their computers. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works ...

Bits and pieces of the Windows 8 user interface have been revealed over the last several months, showing two very different directions for Microsoft’s next operating system. One the one hand, it will ...

Last night Microsoft announced three cuts of its much anticipated new operating system: Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT. Unlike previous incarnations of its operating systems, Microsoft pared ...

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Windows 8 isn’t for everyone. If you’re mostly a desktop PC user comfortable with Windows 7, upgrading to Windows 8 is probably not worthwhile. If you’re a mobile user who needs easy access to the ...

Microsoft just delivered Windows 8.1 (Fig. 1). Windows Embedded 8.1 has also been released. It has been in beta for ages and the RTM (release to manufacturing) version has been available as well so ...