The latest Windows 8 build 7989 uncovers a variety of new features, including a new virtual keyboard, support for SMS, and per-feature licensing that prompt users to buy new features as they needed ...

An early build of Windows 8 has fallen onto the black market of the web: the torrent sites. This early early build of Windows 8 (M1, build 7850; a very early build indeed) was compiled on the 22nd ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Windows Server 8 build 7959 has leaked. This appears to be the first build from Milestone 3 that the ...

Leaked screenshots of the latest Windows 8 build show that Microsoft has jettisoned the traditional Windows 8 Start button but tweaked the Charms Bar and other settings. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Windows 8: What A Build! While there are some things to like about Microsoft Windows 8, such as vastly improved finger navigation (thanks to Metro) over Windows 7 when running on a tablet, there are ...

Windows 8 is all about Metro, cloud and apps. But Microsoft also improved some of its classic desktop tools and also made some last-minute changes to the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Back when Windows ...

Microsoft will name its final Windows 8 build as 9200, following an internal quirk that prevents the company from using the build 8888. Reports of the final Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build ...

Considering that 2012 will be the year of Microsoft’s dramatic upgrade to Windows 8, one might have thought the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show last week would be filled with prospective ...

Windows 8, the next version of Microsoft’s PC operating system, will be a radical change for people who pick it up for the first time, with a primary screen based on tiles similar to the Windows Phone ...

Whenever Microsoft releases a new desktop operating system, users inevitably ponder the purchase or assembly of a new system. Although Windows 8’s controversial interface changes and obvious ...