At a glance: Changes coming with Windows 8.1
13 days ago
Microsoft plans an update to its Windows 8 system to address some of the complaints and incorporate other feedback received since the radical makeover to the operating system came out in October.
News Summary: More Windows devices to get Outlook
13 days ago
FEEDBACK MATTERS: Windows 8.1 is a response to customer complaints about the confusing changes ushered in by the release of Windows 8 last October.
Microsoft to add Outlook to Windows RT tablets
14 days ago
Microsoft will add its popular Outlook email program to more tablets running on a lightweight version of its Windows operating system as part of a free software update this year.
Microsoft unveils operating system update
14 days ago
Antoine Leblond, corporate vice president of Windows Program Management, demonstrated the upgraded system, which included enhancements in areas including platform personalization and search.
Microsoft aims to simplify with Windows 8.1
20 days ago
Microsoft is hoping to quiet the critics by allowing users start the operating system in a desktop design with an omnipresent Windows logo anchored in the lower left corner of the display screen.
Review: Toshiba brings high-res screen to Windows
33 days ago
The problem was not acute in applications designed for Windows 8, but there aren't many of those.
Common Windows 8 gripes and possible solutions
43 days ago
Because many popular programs run only in desktop mode, it would make sense to do most of your computing there, but Windows 8 always forces you into tile mode when you start the machine.
Microsoft touching up Windows 8 to address gripes
43 days ago
The changes, part of a software package given the codename "Blue," are a tacit acknowledgment of the shortcomings in Windows 8, a radical overhaul of Microsoft Corp.'s ubiquitous operating system.
Tablets with Windows RT see slow sales, IDC says
49 days ago
Microsoft is seeing slow sales of a version of Windows designed for thin and light tablets, even as the tablet market as a whole is growing, a research firm reported Wednesday.
EU fines Microsoft $733M for breaking browser pact
105 days ago
In 2009, Microsoft Corp. struck a broad settlement with the Commission to resolve disputes over Microsoft's abuse of the dominance of Windows, which had spanned more than a decade.