While many of Windows 8.1’s major changes focus on the user interface, ultimately it all comes down to the apps. After all, the modern-style side of Windows 8 is supposed to be all about getting out ...

Sure, Windows 8's new kind of applications—formerly known as Metro—aren't up with iPad apps in numbers yet, at only about 5,000 available in the Windows Store compared with 275,000 in the iTunes App ...

Microsoft recently launched their new Windows 8 App store along with the launch of Windows 8, and now it would appear that there are around 13,000 apps in the Windows 8 App store. According to a ...

Microsoft's Windows Store launched with Windows 8 in 2012 offering only apps and games. Windows 10 in 2015 added music, movies, and TV shows, and April's Creators Update added books. But how can you ...

The most groundbreaking version of Windows yet is getting ready to hit PCs in the form of a Consumer Preview. Windows 8 will straddle the mobile and desktop worlds with the attractive Metro interface, ...

Microsoft may be stuffing gratis copies of Office into Windows RT slabs and small-screen Windows 8 tablets alike, but all the spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations in the world won’t change the ...

Google has launched a free search app for Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 operating system. The software offers the web giant's core service complete with voice support in a dedicated app for ...

Microsoft wants developers of Windows 8/8.1 applications in the Microsoft Store to port their apps to Windows 10, and it described some coming app deadlines, perhaps as an incentive. Specifically, ...

Update: The guide below was written for Windows 8 Developer Preview and will not work with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview released on February 29th, 2012. But you can still enable Metro style apps on ...

Slack today announced the availability of its team-communication app for the Windows operating system. The well funded company announced the news in a blog post this morning. Until this point, people ...

New research shows that Windows 8 has barely half of the most popular iOS apps, and that’s one more reason that Windows 8 tablets simply haven’t caught on. Apps sell tablets, and unless Microsoft ...

Windows 8 brings a whole new class of full-screen, touch-friendly, Web-connected apps. Here's the best of the crop. I've been testing PC and mobile software for more than 20 years, focusing on photo ...