In late March, the first builds of Windows 8.1 leaked to the Web. At about the same time, the number of Windows 8 apps reversed several months of slowing growth and charted four straight months of app ...

Windows 8.1 is now displaying full-screen alerts when logging into the operating system, warning that the OS is reaching the end of support in January 2023 and will no longer receive security updates.

Windows 8.1 officially reached its end of support today. The operating system aimed to fix many of the issues introduced with Windows 8 but was ultimately received poorly by general users. Those with ...

On October 26, 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8, a hybrid tablet/desktop operating system that took bold risks but garnered mixed reviews. Ten years later, we’ve caught up with former Windows ...

Some of it was picked up by Windows 10 and Windows 8, but it seems users are starting to leave the Microsoft platform.

Microsoft is once again hard at work on building out a "modern" version of Windows. The project is called CorePC, and follows the same goals as Windows 10X but with native support for legacy apps on ...

Steam has finally stopped working on several older Windows operating systems, following a warning from Valve that it planned to drop support earlier this year. With little fanfare, Windows 7 and ...

Microsoft’s new UWP-friendly tools bridge the gap between the old and the new worlds of .NET to help old code into the latest .NET stack. Microsoft’s journey to today’s Windows App SDK and Win UI as a ...