Time

Windows 8 Consumer Preview: One Step Closer to the PC’s Future

Last September, Microsoft showed off Windows 8 in public for the first time. One glance at the operating-system upgrade–heavily influenced by the company’s inventive Windows Phone–was enough to tell ...
Time

Windows 8 Speed: It’s Not About the Benchmarks

PCMag.com’s Michael Muchmore has helpfully performed an array of speed tests of various sorts on the Release Preview of Windows 8, comparing it to Windows 7. The news is mostly good: Windows 8, which ...
Gear Live

You can now pre-order Windows 8 Pro and Windows 8 PCs

Microsoft has just announced that, starting today, you can now pre-order Windows 8 Pro. The normal price for the disc is $199.99, but during the upgrade promotion period, the package will cost $69.99, ...
InfoWorld

Android + Windows 8 = Windows Super-Frankenstein

Desperate times lead to desperate measures, and the PC makers' desperation has led them to a three-headed Franken-PC PC makers are watching their market shrivel, and after a year of hoping the ...
VentureBeat

Samsung exec blames Windows 8 for PC sales decline, calls it ‘no better than Vista’

Windows 8 has had a tough run, and the number of people taking issue with the OS keeps growing. Now Samsung executive Jun Dong-soo has taken shots at the operating system, blaming it for not improving ...