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Microsoft has squandered its five-year head start in gesture control tech. By the time the company gets Kinect for Windows to consumers, Leap Motion may already own that market.
Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet will launch on 9 February in the US and Canada.
Which keyboard cover for the Surface RT performs better under the scrutiny of empirical testing?
Is the Surface RT an iPad-competitor, a tablet for ThinkPad owners who want to use Office on the train, both or neither?
The company's founder discusses how the desktop and mobile versions of the OS reflect a move away from keyboard and mouse.
The site has also been designed to provide more user feedback to the developers of the Web standards themselves.
Paul Allen takes issue with dual interfaces in a post to his personal blog.
The Windows Store, a new online marketplace for applications for Windows 8 and Windows RT computers, is now open to developers in 120 countires
Microsoft's first new logo for 25 years is based around the Segoe font used across current branding.
Will the next version make onerous tasks faster? And does its Metro design push interactive design further?
Microsoft will let users of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 PCs upgrade to the new Windows 8 Pro for $39.99 (around £25) later this year.
Melissa Perenson gets to play with Microsoft's Surface tablet at its launch event in LA. Here are her thoughts.
As many had speculated, Microsoft has announced a new tablet PC at an event in Los Angeles.
Microsoft has posted a release candidate of its next version of the Visual Studio IDE (integrated development environment), as well as release candidates of the .Net framework and the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 source-control software.
Microsoft 8 is in its "final phase" of development following the Release Preview launch of the new operating system.
Microsoft Open Technologies has made the Metro style theme available for the jQuery Mobile open source mobile user interface framework, thus fitting Metro to applications running on the Windows Phone 7.5 OS.
Combining a MacBook and an iPad would never work, and that’s why Microsoft’s plans to push Windows 8 out to both tablets and laptops will be a disaster, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook.
A proposal drafted by Microsoft, Google and Netflix to add support for encrypted media playback in HTML5, has sparked a debate on the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) HTML public mailing list.
Microsoft has unveiled a new look for the Windows logo for Windows 8. Here's why I think it's a brilliant move.
Microsoft will scratch the 17-year-old Start button from Windows 8, according to reports based on a purported leak of the latest beta build.
