Michael Mace is a former executive at Palm and Apple, and the CEO of a bootstrapped startup named Zekira. He also blogs at Mobile Opportunity, and his latest item, about Windows 8’s prospects, is the ...

You can find pundits who are predicting that Windows 8 will succeed. You can find pundits — lots of them — who are predicting that it’ll fail. Starting today ...

The BUILD convention (held this week in Anaheim, California) is Windows 8's coming out party. Although information nuggets about Microsoft's upcoming operating system have been released over the last ...

Windows 8 ships with Expression Blend 5 a developer preview of one of Microsoft’s development tools. The Window 8 Task Manager includes a whole new look and a lot of changes. I’ll have to explore this ...

Wanting the inside track on the next iteration of Windows, which is expected next year? Microsoft’s launched a new blog written by the engineering team, and while they don’t give away too much yet, ...

It has stuck around since 2012.

In the April issue of Visual Studio Magazine, Stephen Chapman, an investigative blogger who writes for ZDNet and authors the Microsoft enthusiast blog Microsoft Kitchen, wrote a VS Insider column ...

The new Microsoft operating system that all the reviewers called confusing isn't exactly winning over consumers either. Since its launch less than a month ago, Windows 8 has seen weaker sales than its ...

Oof. Everything I learn about Windows 8 feeds my fears that Microsoft eventually plans on phasing out the "old" interface. I heard the analogy of the DOS-to-Desktop transition, and I really, really ...

Q: I recently bought a Windows 8 laptop, and the only thing I don't like about the PC is Windows 8. I want to replace Windows 8 with the more familiar Windows 7. How can I do this? A: To put it mildly ...

After years of doing "secret shopper" stories, we don't expect much from retail sales clerks. So color us surprised that, on day one of the Windows 8 era, associates at three New York-area retail ...

A former Microsoft employee, Alex A. Kibkalo, was arrested for leaking Windows 8 to an unnamed French blogger back in 2012, and now faces theft of trade secrets charges for revealing the information.