A funny thing happens whenever I use my Surface Pro 2 for work. Even though the 10-inch screen and tiny Type Cover trackpad are less comfortable to work with than my dual-monitor Windows 7 desktop, ...

Well, thanks to Stardock's ModernMix, you now can! With ModernMix installed, you can run Metro (Modern, Windows 8-style UI) apps on the Windows 8 Desktop. With ModernMix, Metro apps essentially behave ...

A bunch of new Windows 9 technical preview screenshots have been leaked... and I think you will either be curiously surprised, or utterly revolted. Good news: In Windows 9, it does indeed look like ...

Taking a cue out of the playbooks of famous name-changers like Ron Artest, Cat Stevens, and Prince, Microsoft isn’t calling its UI design Metro anymore. Although that’s the official title MS has been ...

We've been fans of Splashtop's remote access apps for quite awhile, so when we heard the company was working on a new remote desktop app for Windows 8, we jumped at the chance to take it for a test ...

If you were asked to pick the most annoying of the various Microsoft Windows interfaces that have appeared over the years, ...

Block by boring block.

Microsoft has long used the term “Metro” for its newest Windows interfaces, first for Windows Phone 7, and after that for Windows 8. Now it’s dropping that name, and the explanation for it makes ...

The new Windows operating system was unveiled on Wednesday. Dean Hachamovitch, head of IE development at Microsoft, said in a blog post: “We examined the use of plug-ins across the top 97,000 sites ...