I was expecting to get quite a lot of flack for my last piece on Windows 8: "Will 90% of people always hate Windows 8." What I actually got was some of the most positive and insightful feedback that I ...

Windows 8 is clearly a transition product. Microsoft is laying the groundwork for a more touch-friendly, mobile-oriented future. But it also isn't yet ready to throw out the familiar Windows desktop.

Even if you bypass Windows 8's "modern" UI entirely using a tool like Start8 or Classic Shell, there are some great apps available for it. Thanks to ModernMix, an app that lets you run full-screen ...

There are two different types of apps that run on Windows 8 devices. There are full-screen apps that use the “Modern” user interface and which you can download from the Windows Store. And there are ...

For $5, this utility puts Windows 8 modern UI apps in windows. It’s surprisingly addictive. Windows 8 is transforming into the desktop OS users thought it would be when they first heard about it, but ...

(MoneyWatch) Windows 8 is without a doubt the most controversial OS that Microsoft has ever released. It's not objectively bad in the same way as Windows ME or Windows Vista; instead, it's reviled by ...

Sometimes you just wanna close a window. Or resize it, or drag it so that it overlaps with something else. That's how Windows works, and it's more or less how you'd expect to interact with Windows 8 ...

Stardock’s ModernMix Windows 8 application is now out of beta. It’s a utility program that allows users of Windows 8 (not RT) to run any Modern UI apps within a window on the desktop. Stardock has a ...

Windows: One of the annoyances in Windows 8 is that the full-screen (formerly "Metro") apps can only be run, well, full-screen or snapped in a pane at the side. They don't work like Windows desktop ...

Stardock already offers a way to bring back the familiar Start menu in Windows 8 instead of the much criticized tile-based home screen. But if you'd still like to use "Metro" apps from Microsoft's ...

The problem with Windows 8 as it stands is that the OS may seem like it has multiple personalities when you begin using it. On one hand, you have the modern and new Start Screen with the Metro UI and ...

A Michigan developer last week started selling a $5 utility that lets Windows 8 customers shun the new Modern UI by running apps on the classic desktop. Stardock, best known to Windows 8 users for ...