An expert on user interface design has called Windows 8 “disappointing” for novices and power users alike. Jakob Nielsen, principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, studied how a dozen experienced PC ...

Metro, the new Windows 8 interface, is causing an equal measure of excitement and consternation across the Web. The new tablet-style interface that uses tiles to launch your favorite applications — ...

I like writing about Windows 8. But every time I do — like right now, as I’ve been working on a post on Windows 8.1 — I’m bedeviled by the same conundrum. It’s minor but aggravating, and it confronts ...

Way back in 1985, Microsoft launched Windows 1.0, the first version of its Mac-like software for PCs. In 2009, it introduced Windows 7, the current edition. Thanks to 24 years’ worth of astounding ...

Microsoft’s decision to take a radical departure in the user interface of Windows 8 has many of its customers asking the same question. Microsoft has always had downgrade rights in place for its ...

Well, Windows 8 is out, and I’m not too big a guy to admit I might need to reconsider my harsh predictions for it. Readers let me have it with both barrels last month, when I opined that Microsoft ...

A U.K. design team recruited 14 Windows users and subjected them to the new Windows 8 interface. Apparently none of them cottoned to it immediately. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology ...

And really, I think the best thing you can say about Windows 10 (among many potential candidates) is that it righted a lot of ...

Built from the ground up to take full advantage of the Windows 8 new user interface, the app features Windows 8 design principles, leverages rapid gesture-based zoom, pan, and navigation, ...

Microsoft held its first major unveiling of what’s in store with Windows 8 at the D9 conference this week. Windows 8 looks bold. It looks slick. It looks impressively innovative. But, it also looks ...

Start Menu is for those (the majority) who don't need to pin a thousand programs. They just need a few and they prefer to have an unobstructed view of their desktop while they hit a link to small ...

Hyperbolic, but I have been seeing a steady increase of blame-the-user attitude when Windows 8 issues are brought up. Click to expand... I'm perfectly willing to acknowledge the issues I've raised ...