I tried using the Metro apps for a bit when I installed Windows 8 over the weekend, but like this article states, they're plainly terrible on the desktop. I unpinned most of them and now largely use ...

Microsoft may have refreshes for its Mail, Calendar, Music and Games apps for Windows 8 and Windows RT in its app store as soon as this month. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years ...

Microsoft today announced it would start pushing updated versions of several long-criticized Windows 8 apps, including Mail, Calendar and People, the “Modern”-style program for keeping track of ...

Windows Core OS is setting the path for Windows for the next decade. How it all works is a bit mysterious, but this is why "Polaris" will be significant for consumers, the education market, and ...

Microsoft’s Windows 8 developer preview has been out for about a month, and the software giant is ready to discuss some new changes to Windows 8 based on user feedback. In an incredibly long and ...

Microsoft’s approach to a user interface really hasn’t changed structurally since Windows 95 — it’s just gotten prettier and more feature-packed. The big exception is Windows 8, which didn’t sit well ...

In what we believe to be the longest blog post ever posted on the web, Microsoft has detailed the extensive changes made to the Windows 8 graphics subsystem and DirectX 11.1. In short, everything in ...

I really don't care what "team" within Microsoft created which apps. As a consumer, the end product reflects on the total company, not this team or that team within the organization. If I have a ...