A deep look at Windows 8, Microsoft's answer to the iPad ... the layout is similar and has become familiar -- a desktop with icons, a Start button in the corner, and lots of windows.

Microsoft isn’t kidding when it says Windows 8 will be the biggest overhaul of its flagship operating system since the landmark Windows 95 release. Application tiles will replace icons ...

With Windows 8, Microsoft did the unthinkable ... Whereas most operating systems would present an icon for your photos–maybe a Polaroid or a roll of film–Metro would just make those actual ...

While most of the Start Screen improvements are focused on the new Windows 8-style apps, Microsoft is also now allowing traditional desktop apps to use colorful tiles instead of just app icons ...

With Windows 8, Microsoft is going back to the drawing board ... so Windows 8 might actually spell curtains for Windows Phone. An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down.

With Windows 8, Microsoft is taking most of your choices ... Yes, it added a new (side-mounted) program launcher filled with big icons and a dash for searching through your programs and files.

icon spacing, and other settings. Presumably, Microsoft removed these settings because they primarily affected the Classic themes, and since Windows 8 did not support Classic themes, these were ...

Microsoft’s Windows 8 user interface, originally referred to ... swiping from the right will reveal the new Charms, a set of five icons that surface the most common tasks in Windows 8.