After a lot of fluster on the Building Windows 8 blog, the Release Preview is actually surprisingly similar to the Consumer Preview. Multi-monitor improvements are in, and Metro IE now supports Flash ...

Last September, Microsoft showed off Windows 8 in public for the first time. One glance at the operating-system upgrade–heavily influenced by the company’s inventive Windows Phone–was enough to tell ...

We know that Windows 8 is primarily a tablet and touch-first operating system, but -- assuming everything goes to plan -- it will also be used on hundreds of millions of desktop PCs around the world.

If you move quickly, before servers all over the world start groaning under the load, you can get an early official copy of Windows 8 Release Preview Microsoft promised to deliver Windows 8 Release ...

Microsoft unveiled the Windows 8 Consumer Preview Product Guide for Business just a few hours before the widely anticipated release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview. In addition to the predictable pablum ...

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Microsoft released a consumer preview of its next operating system, Windows 8, Wednesday as the company tries to bolster its core business. The Post's Hayley Tsukayama reports: The new system has been ...

The bad news is that the Consumer Preview (build 8250) has removed some useful things and introduced a few new flaws, not least of which is failing to install at least once on a machine with more than ...

Microsoft looks set to release a consumer preview of Windows 8 on Feb. 29, just meeting the company's stated goal of delivering a beta version of the PC operating system by the end of February.