Just one day after hitting the Web, the Windows 8 beta, aka the Consumer Preview, has reached a milestone, according to Microsoft. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

The Start button and menu were introduced with Windows 95..and it appears Microsoft will scrap both of them [in] Windows 8. .. [A] hot corner has replaced the Start button orb..[in] the lower-left ...

When Windows 8’s beta version becomes available for download on Wednesday, Microsoft expects many enterprises to jump at the chance to give the new operating system a test drive, but some industry ...

Microsoft is reportedly on track to release Windows 8 on a similar time frame to Windows 7, with the first beta of the new OS appearing in early 2012. The software giant has not said officially when ...

Microsoft has today announced the availability of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, a beta version of the highly-anticipated "next milestone" for the Windows operating system. At Mobile World Congress ...

The chance to try Windows 8 in beta form may be just a couple months away. Citing “sources close to Microsoft,” The Next Web reports that Microsoft will launch a public beta of Windows 8 in late ...

Beta of next iteration of the OS lands, while Apple announces what is expected to be an iPad 3 event. Also: Facebook and Zynga breaking up? Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. He's ...

The bad news is that the Consumer Preview (build 8250) has removed some useful things and introduced a few new flaws, not least of which is failing to install at least once on a machine with more than ...

Mozilla’s tablet-friendly version of Firefox for Windows 8 is coming together, and an early public build of the browser is now available. It’s obviously still a work-in-progress – there’s no ...