Valve Software bigwig Gabe Newell has his long knives out and he’s slashing in Windows 8’s direction, going so far as to call Microsoft’s imminent operating system makeover a “catastrophe.” It’s not ...

You can’t judge a book by its cover — or a software product by its version number. That’s always been particularly true of Microsoft Windows. The most famous ...

Windows 8 is a mobile- and touch-first OS. There might be only 30 million tablets in the hands of consumers -- compared to 500 million smartphones and billions of PCs -- and tablet computing might be ...

I have tried Win8 on a tablet, but purely concentrated on the Metro UI, which I can get on with. But what I am wondering about, is if I have Visual Studio open on the desktop and I am checking emails, ...