Windows 8 Start page Microsoft’s Steve Sinofsky announced on the Building Windows 8 blog Wednesday that development on Windows 8 is now complete. The final bits are being shipped to hardware OEMs, ...

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Microsoft has amended the guidelines of the Windows 8 store to allow the sale of mature games, Gizmodo reports. Initially, the guidelines prevented the sale of games rated "Adult" by the ESRB and, in ...

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It’s crunch time. In just over two weeks Microsoft is hosting a massive media event in New York to officially launch Windows 8. With the clock winding down, Microsoft is working diligently to improve ...

Why not just have "The Windows Store" that is available across all supported version of windows? I have opened the Windows app store a total of 0 times since it came out, pardon the ignorant question.

Windows 8.1's store is a far cry better than Windows 8.0, with a number of features that make it worth a second look. If you're considering the OS, check out the improvements. Share on Facebook (opens ...

It's official -- well, sort of. Microsoft has formally changed the "Metro" name used to describe a user interface and an app style for Windows 8 to a new name, "Windows Store app." The name change ...

The Epic Games Store is one of the few apps still supporting old, pre-Windows 10 releases. However, its days are numbered. Epic Games recently published a notification, alerting users sticking to the ...

Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...

I'd like to see an article on what Windows 8 could bring to the business environment. In an enterprise setting like the one I find myself in, looking at W8 as seen through these articles makes it ...