With ordinary Windows 8 on Hewlett-Packard (HP) consumer PC, or any other vendor's retail PC, though, you're stuck with Windows 8. HP's Windows 8 FAQ reads, " Downgrading is supported only for HP ...

An inside look at how Microsoft is planning to reinvent itself and Windows. Oct. 25, 2012 — -- "Hi, I'm a Mac. Hi, I'm a PC." The ads haven't run in years, but the image might be more ...

PC Refresh and Reset has been available since the first release of Windows 8, but it has changed since Windows 8.1 and the more recent Windows 8.1 update 1. Note: There is a big difference between ...

PC sales are slumping and the technological prophets of doom are quick to point the finger at Microsoft and its Windows 8 operating system. Last week IDC Vice President Bob O'Donnell not only ...

Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft's president of Windows (right) and Michael Angiulo, Microsoft's vice president of PC ecosystems, demonstrated Windows 8 on a number of devices. ANAHEIM, Calif. (CNNMoney ...

We may have a new version of Windows, but one story is still the same: buying a new Windows 8 PC means that you're also buying a bunch of OEM-installed software that you didn't ask for.

Though Windows 8 is winning rave reviews for its touch-friendly tablet experience, many feel that the operating system’s “Modern-style” UI makes life more difficult for PC users.

New PC owners should pay attention during first-time startup of a Windows 8 PC for a prompt to create system recovery discs. Otherwise, you can use Microsoft’s built-in tools in Windows 8 to ...

Windows 8 offers the same functionality, but divvies results up into Apps, ... My MacBook Air isn’t going anywhere–the Windows 8 PC experience is still dependent on Samsung, Toshiba, Dell, ...

Over on the Building Windows 8 blog Microsoft documents what I think is the best feature of Windows 8 - PC refresh and reset. I found this shortly after Microsoft released the developer preview of ...

It was nearly three years ago that Microsoft gave us our first look at what would become Windows 8, the operating system that comes on millions of notebooks, desktops and tablets today. Back then ...

Microsoft gave the world it's first glimpse of Windows 8 last night, with on stage presentations of the new look operating system at both the D9 conference in California and Computex in Taiwan.