PDC attendees received the Windows 7 "Pre-Release Preview" as part of the goodies Microsoft distributed Tuesday afternoon. I have already installed the new OS on a spare computer at home, though as I ...

Windhawk is a free and open-source utility that allows you to customize most aspects of the Windows user interface, including ...

At PDC today, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 7. Until now, the company has been uncharacteristically secretive about its new OS; over the past few months, Microsoft has let ...

Windows through the ages: the history of the world's most popular OS Microsoft recently announced plans to strip the Windows interface to its basics -- flattening surfaces, removing reflections, and ...

Microsoft has released a preview into what it sees as the future of the Windows user interface across the whole spectrum of devices that we interact with on a daily basis from the PC to smartphones ...

In November, details emerged of Microsoft's plans to refresh its Windows 10 user interface with new design elements. Being developed the under codename 'Project Neon', the changes are said to be part ...

OK, so I've had the Windows 8 Consumer Preview bits in my hot hands for a few hours and now I've had a chance to use the operating system on both virtual machines and physical systems, I thought I'd ...

Last week, we reported on how Microsoft's plans for the future of Windows 10 on phones is gradually coming together. A key part of those plans is the company's development of a unified CShell user ...

After over a decade of trying to stretch the Windows user interface to include mobile devices, Windows 8 promises to go the other way -- taking the Windows Phone interface and grafting it onto Windows ...

Though Microsoft may yet have some trick up its sleeve, there’s a growing body of evidence from leaked screenshots that Windows 8’s taskbar will omit one mainstay of the Windows user interface: the ...

With the Oct. 26 release of Windows 8, Microsoft unveiled a new look and new direction for the operating system that runs 92% of desktop computers worldwide. But Windows 8 isn’t about desktop ...

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