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Microsoft has amended the guidelines of the Windows 8 store to allow the sale of mature games, Gizmodo reports. Initially, the guidelines prevented the sale of games rated "Adult" by the ESRB and, in ...

I'd like to see an article on what Windows 8 could bring to the business environment. In an enterprise setting like the one I find myself in, looking at W8 as seen through these articles makes it ...

Here's what went wrong with the Windows App Store and how Microsoft is trying to get things right for the future. But is it too late? I've been writing about technology for more than 15 years and ...

When Microsoft built Windows 8, it bet that it could create a Windows Store experience that would rival competitors like Apple and Google. The company was confident enough of its abilities in this ...

On the current version in Windows 8, the review, though limited to 500 characters, is contained in a ridiculously small text area that has the very bad taste of not being able to hold the said 500 ...

It's official -- well, sort of. Microsoft has formally changed the "Metro" name used to describe a user interface and an app style for Windows 8 to a new name, "Windows Store app." The name change ...

Windows 8 might have made waves for its short-lived removal of the beloved Start button, but the platform’s launch of an ill-fated storefront for streamlined app management was arguably Microsoft’s ...

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 ...

Whether you want it or not, Microsoft will release its Windows 8 operating system on October 26. The new OS upends the familiar Start menu-based interface you’ve known since Windows 95 in favor of one ...

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 ...