I tried using the Metro apps for a bit when I installed Windows 8 over the weekend, but like this article states, they're plainly terrible on the desktop. I unpinned most of them and now largely use ...

In what we believe to be the longest blog post ever posted on the web, Microsoft has detailed the extensive changes made to the Windows 8 graphics subsystem and DirectX 11.1. In short, everything in ...

Microsoft has at last opened the floodgates and started talking about Windows 8. Will the software giant finally have an operating system to take on iOS in the tablet space?