Microsoft surprised everyone earlier this week when it announced the name of its next major Windows release, as the company decided to simply skip Windows 9, the name everyone expected to see, and ...

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on September 16 but was updated September 29 with additional information. Windows 9. Threshold. Or just plain Windows. Whatever Microsoft ends up ...

Windows 10 is finally here -- and it's been a long and winding road. Let's step back for a moment and address one of the most confusing things about the latest version of Windows. When Microsoft ...

It looks like somebody at Microsoft made an oopsie, because a couple of pages dedicated to the next version of Windows recently went live, but have since been taken down. One of these is a download ...

Windows guru Paul Thurrott says Microsoft is going back to the Windows drawing board after the Vista-level flop of Windows 8 The Microsoft Windows edition formerly known as part of the “Threshold” ...

Windows insider Wzor is back, tweeting and posting on the Russian site ru-board.com tantalizing hints about the next versions of Windows. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley followed up, quoting unnamed sources ...

Good news, Windows 8 and 8.1 haters! Windows 9 will get rid of the Charms menu that stores Search, Settings, and other portals to the operating system’s Metro UI, a report says. The Charms menu is one ...

Microsoft is expected to launch the next version of Windows in 2015 with a public preview coming later this year (possibly as soon as September 30th). But the folks at German site WinFuture seem to ...