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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announces plans about Xbox at CES 2010. Photo: Jon Snyder/WiredMore »

Windows 8 boots so blisteringly fast that it theoretically gives you only 200 milliseconds to access the boot menu. Fortunately, Microsoft has gone to the trouble of designing a whole new Boot Options menu so you don't have to punch F8 like a crazy person.More »

Metro is irrefutably beautiful, but the imminence of Microsoft's bold new UI in Windows 8 has a lot of power users worried about just how they're going to be able to function with the new system. Judging by how multi-display systems seem to be working, the answer seems to be "more or less the sam...

Windows 8 is built on the idea that the web has great functions, but a lousy user experience—and it uses apps to pull everything into a bright, clean parallel world. FastCo Design's Austin Carr shows how Windows 8 will make using the web a better, more pleasant experience. More »

With Ivy Bridge out, there's a ton of great new desktops, ultrabooks, and gaming rigs coming out over the next few months. But they're all under the shadow of the other major release, Windows 8. Good news for anyone taking the plunge, though: Windows 8 upgrades will be available for just $15 if y...

Windows 8 is stirring up a fair deal of controversy for Microsoft. Now, Intel has come out as saying that it thinks that running the new OS on ARM hardware is going to prove difficult.More »

If you're used to freely choosing which browser you use in Windows, brace yourself: Mozilla is claiming that Microsoft is planning to limit user choice for browsers on tablets running Windows 8.More »

For more than a decade, Microsoft has failed in its tablet ambitions...

Shipments of tablet PCs are expected to grow from 81.6 million units...

Duringlast week’s earnings call Tim Cook was asked what he thought about Windows 8 being “optimized” for tablets. Cook humorously responded that, “anything can be forced to converge, but the problem is that products are about tradeoffs, and you begin to make tradeoffs to ...