I broke my half of our Windows 8 review into two smaller parts when I realized that sheer frustration with the Windows 8 Desktop/Metro integration section was threatening to destroy my positive ...

Forget all of Microsoft’s hoopla about Windows 8‘s new Metro interface. If you’re a power user who relies on lots of legacy software, you’ll still be spending most of your time with the classic ...

Although Microsoft believes Windows 8.1 is equally at home on a tablet, laptop or desktop, nothing’s more fitting for the hybrid operating system than a device that blurs the lines. The Surface Pro 2, ...

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 ...

Microsoft has long used the term “Metro” for its newest Windows interfaces, first for Windows Phone 7, and after that for Windows 8. Now it’s dropping that name, and the explanation for it makes ...

We've been fans of Splashtop's remote access apps for quite awhile, so when we heard the company was working on a new remote desktop app for Windows 8, we jumped at the chance to take it for a test ...

I think it indicates just how clean Chrome's source code is compared to FireFox. Remember, Apple poached one of mozilla's best developers (David Hyatt) to run their Safari team and apparently he was ...

It's Metro-styled, not a Metro app. It's a separate class of applications, specific to web browsers. You can have "desktop-only" web browser, that is only accessible ...