Not so long ago, desktop environments tended to be variations on a dominant theme. Designed to help the user interact with key parts of the operating system, these interfaces featured icons, toolbars, ...

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 ...

Microsoft's new OS gives you more options for viewing and manipulating windows and screen elements, and also ribbon-izes Paint and WordPad. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

A new Microsoft Windows operating system is always big news, especially for the federal government, which overwhelmingly relies on Windows of one stripe or another to run just about everything. The ...

Whatever the reason, “Metro” is out, and Microsoft is temporarily referring to the colorful, tiled interface of the impending flagship operating system as “Windows 8 Style UI”. That lacks flare, ...

The backwards compatibility of new operating systems has been a constant thorn in Microsoft's side. With Vista, the compatibility problems at launch were so great it never really stood a chance of ...