Bad news piles up for PCs in general and Microsoft in particular -- unless, of course, you redefine what constitutes a PC Quick, does anyone have a Windows 8 success story they’d like to share?

Early rumors suggested that devices running Microsoft’s next-generation Windows 8 operating system might launch as soon as this summer, but a new report places the platform’s public release in the ...

The good: It boasts the highest display resolution among Windows 8 all-in-ones and at an aggressive price. The bottom line: Updated with a touch-screen, a new stand and up-to-date components, the Dell ...

It has now been two months since the release of Windows 8, and, much to the chagrin of Microsoft, adoption of the new OS remains weak. Retailers and Microsoft's hardware partners are continuing to ...

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 ...

NEW YORK - While Microsoft is touting next week's launch of Windows 8 as the savior of the computer industry, PC makers and analysts are increasingly skeptical that the new operating system will lure ...

On Friday, I responded to Paul Thurrott's report that the first few weeks of Windows 8 sales have been disappointing by saying that Windows 8 is a long bet — and it therefore doesn't matter much what ...

The flagship Currys & PC World store in London is to open at midnight on Friday for the launch of Windows 8, Microsoft's much-anticipated new touch-enabled computer operating system. The window at the ...

One of the largest underlying changes to Windows 8 is the long-overdue shift from BIOS to UEFI. UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is superior to BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) in almost ...

China has banned the use of Windows 8 on government computers, a move officials there claimed was a reaction to the end of Windows XP’s support. According to the Xinhua News Agency, an official press ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A German government technology agency has warned that new security technology in computers running Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system may actually make PCs more vulnerable to ...

Microsoft has been quietly downloading the massive Windows 10 update to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs without their owners’ knowledge. Here are instructions for blocking it. Microsoft has been ...