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Windows 8 required users to learn a handful of concepts to get around and perform basic tasks. When you know what those concepts are—swiping from the edges, clicking in the corners, and a few ...

Update: Microsoft should either stick to a decision or make a better one in the first place. After receiving some expected backlash for not distributing the final version of Windows 8.1 to developers ...

Another good question regarding Microsoft's latest operating system, and I can answer it for you. Once you have got done generating your Windows 8 Pro key on the MSDN website, copy it and either keep ...

The long-awaited (but not terribly well-received) and likely final suture in the Jekyll-and-Hyde version of Windows has just hit the MSDN site. For those of you who have MSDN accounts, it’s time to ...

Microsoft today issued the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows 8.1 Enterprise Edition to its TechNet and MSDN subscribers. This release catches up with RTM releases of Windows 8.1 and ...

That was over two years ago in the early adopter program for Windows 8, and now when I use Windows XP or Windows 7, I find it very inefficient to “have to click through so many menus” to find and do ...

Microsoft's delayed release of Windows 8.1 came after an internal struggle and the outcry of developers who wanted the bits to develop Windows 8.1 apps for the GA launch in October. Over the past few ...

The release of the first big update to Microsoft's desktop operating system Windows 8 is coming on quick, with the first software builds heading to developers today. The first release of this software ...

Microsoft today issued the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows 8.1 Enterprise Edition to its TechNet and MSDN subscribers. This release catches up with RTM releases of Windows 8.1 and ...