PDC attendees received the Windows 7 "Pre-Release Preview" as part of the goodies Microsoft distributed Tuesday afternoon. I have already installed the new OS on a spare computer at home, though as I ...

Microsoft's Fall Creators Update for Windows 10 might have an ironically uncreative name, but the upgrade itself is flush with artistic potential and useful features. It will give users a timeline to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about hardware and software YOU need to know about. May 19, 2012, 09:15am EDT May 21, 2012, 11:20am EDT This article is ...

Microsoft has just given a demonstration of what they’re calling Windows 8. It appears to be a complete revamp of the Windows interface, designed around a tile system like that of Windows Phone 7, and ...

I've got a bad case of the Windows 8 Metro interface Blues. It looks like Microsoft will be releasing Windows Blue midyear, but the interface is going to be the same old Metro mess that's been giving ...

With Windows 8, Microsoft did the unthinkable: The company designed a groundbreaking interface of boxes called Metro that could scale from laptops, to tablets, to phones, to Xboxes–meaning any ...

It appears Microsoft wants to give the Windows interface a major overhaul in late 2021. No, for the love of God, no! I’m a lucky guy. I can pick up new operating systems and desktop interfaces at the ...

Adobe Systems' Mark Hamburg will work on Windows' user experience. His recent Adobe work gives a clue about his design goals: "elegance," "personality." Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

The user interface in Windows 95 and carried forth in subsequent Windows versions until Windows 8. The Windows 95 interface introduced the Start menu and Taskbar. See Windows 95 and Windows.