Microsoft has launched the latest preview of its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, bringing various improvements to what the firm is billing as the "most important piece of work we've done".

(CNN) -- Upgrading to the new Windows 8 operating system is not nearly as complicated as it looks, despite Microsoft's sometimes muddled marketing. Getting used to using it is a different story. At ...

The latest pre-release version of the Windows 8 operating system will become available during the first week of June, a Microsoft executive said Tuesday in Tokyo. The Windows 8 “Release Preview” will ...

TAIPEI/PALOS VERDES, California (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp showed off a version of its next operating system at technology conferences in the United States and Taipei, as some PC makers grumbled over ...

TAIPEI/PALOS VERDES, California (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp showed off a version of its next operating system at technology conferences in the United States and Taipei, as some PC makers grumbled over ...

Microsoft has confirmed a Start button is returning to the desktop mode's taskbar of its Windows 8 operating system. The lack of the facility - which had been in every previous version since Windows ...

Microsoft is firing back with a little pop of its own amid criticism that its Windows 8 operating system is like New Coke, which fizzled after its debut. A communications executive for the Redmond, ...

Beta of next iteration of the OS lands, while Apple announces what is expected to be an iPad 3 event. Also: Facebook and Zynga breaking up? Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. He's ...

ABC News is now available as an app for Windows 8 tablets and computers. Oct. 25, 2012 — -- Not only is Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system launching today, but so is ABC News' very own ...

Now (as spotted by PC Gamer), 11 months on, the first Steam update has arrived that users on Windows 7 and 8 will not be able to download. "This version of the Steam client will no longer run on ...