Harry McCracken is the founder and editor of Technologizer, an award-winning independent Web site about the Web, mobile tech, consumer electronics, and PCs. He also writes a weekly tech column for ...

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 ...

Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...

Samsung has unveiled its new Series 7 PC, an all-in-one machine running Windows 8 that comes with a pre-loaded app from Jamie Oliver. At the IFA 2012 trade show in Berlin, Samsung announced the "brand ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Computers running on the next version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system will go on sale in October. Microsoft Corp. announced the time frame for Windows 8’s mass-market ...

Need a mouse for your Windows 8 laptop or a keyboard for your Windows RT tablet? These devices from Microsoft and Logitech are solid options from proven peripherals vendors. If you’ve just bought a ...

Company details how the new secure boot process will work, attempting to respond to those wondering if they'll still be able to dual-boot Linux. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and ...

If you are excited to play Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 4: MEGA on your PC today, make sure your computer is not running Windows 7 and 8. As previously announced, starting with Battle Royale Chapter 4 ...

If you’ve had your PC for a while or are issued a laptop for work, it can be difficult to gauge whether your PC is up to speed compared to other PCs. But there’s a quick method I use to find this out: ...

Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...