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After a lot of fluster on the Building Windows 8 blog, the Release Preview is actually surprisingly similar to the Consumer Preview. Multi-monitor improvements are in, and Metro IE now supports Flash ...

For all of those curious about Microsoft’s (News - Alert) next operating system, the company has been gradually doling out details about Windows 8 through a blog dubbed “Building Windows 8.” Kicked ...

Microsoft trumpets Windows 8 refresh/reset as a feature, but actually reveals bloated Windows 7 legacy code it's carting around The latest post on the Building Windows 8 blog talks about the OS’s new ...

The "Metro" interface of Windows 8 is aimed at unifying the user experience, regardless of platform. One of the hallmarks of Microsoft's <a href="http://www.techflash ...

Microsoft wants your digital pictures to be as easy to browse as your physical ones. The new Photos app for Windows 8 was designed from the ground up to access images from several sources and make ...

Using Windows 8 on non-touchscreen devices such as legacy PCs in desktop mode will impose an excessive burden on many consumers and enterprise users, because the new "metro" touchscreen mode has been ...

Windows 8 includes a storage scheme suitable for business deployment that can treat hundreds of disks as a single logical storage reservoir and ensures resiliency by backing up data on at least two ...