Even in a multi-part review, it's almost impossible to cover every perceivable feature of a Windows operating system, but there are a few new niceties that we'd like to shed a little light on. For ...

Zack Whittaker posted some shots tonight of the Windows 7 user interface. Needless to say, I couldn't get myself to worked up over them. Apparently somebody did since the post was yanked shortly, but ...

Sometimes I don’t know my own strength. After several painful weeks of poking holes in the Windows 7 bubble (and being poked right back by the legions of Windows zealots), it seems my message about ...

Karmic Koala's desktop should be familiar to Windows users. Right-click menu shortcuts and personalizing the desktop features are similar to Windows 7. The desktop still isn't as "glitzy" as Windows 7 ...

It is the statement that has re-ignited the near-religious debate about whether the Windows user interface was copied from Mac. Define ‘copied’. Adopting features that work is not new to Windows 7 or ...

Despite pleas from users to stop the confusion and craft one version of Windows 7, Microsoft is continuing down the path it followed with XP and Vista releasing multiple versions or SKUs ...

I seem to remember a year ago, I said that if I were to design Windows 7 it would have built-in virtualization to provide perfect Windows XP compatibility. Guess what? It will. It's not often that my ...

Windows 10 preview builds can now run Linux apps directly on the Windows 10 desktop using the new Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI. In this article, we go hands on with the new WSLg feature to ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is starting to allow Windows 10 testers to access Linux GUI apps. The ...