In part three of our Windows 7 review, we'll turn our attention to the user interface. Reflecting on what the average home user can come to expect, we'll be focusing on Windows 7 Home Premium. At ...

Has Microsoft, after more than 20 years of work, finally come up with an operating system that rivals the Mac OS? Are the two just different flavors of the same GUI? Hadley Stern, writing for Apple ...

The most talked-about issue in the lead-up to Microsoft’s launch of Windows 8 is the new Start screen, featuring the Modern UI. But Windows 8 has much more to offer than just a revamped interface. The ...

Despite pleas from users to stop the confusion and craft one version of Windows 7, Microsoft is continuing down the path it followed with XP and Vista releasing multiple versions or SKUs ...

Karmic Koala's desktop should be familiar to Windows users. Right-click menu shortcuts and personalizing the desktop features are similar to Windows 7. The desktop still isn't as "glitzy" as Windows 7 ...

Former Microsoft exec reveals how decades of shifting GUI strategies left Windows development fragmented and confusing for ...

I seem to remember a year ago, I said that if I were to design Windows 7 it would have built-in virtualization to provide perfect Windows XP compatibility. Guess what? It will. It's not often that my ...

Hey, it's Windows 7 day! And do you know what that means? Lots and lots (and lots!) of new Windows 7 machines, including a trifecta from the crew at MSI. Today, alongside Microsoft's release of its ...

Even in a multi-part review, it's almost impossible to cover every perceivable feature of a Windows operating system, but there are a few new niceties that we'd like to shed a little light on. For ...