As the public beta release of Windows 8 nears, the complaints are steadily mounting about its user interface. Just yesterday, ZDnet columnist Stephen Vaughn-Nichols, an admitted Linux fan, has called ...

Help me. I’m on a laptop running Windows 8 right now. Like many others, I hate it and think it’s the worst operating system since the not-so-distant Vista. If I didn’t have to use it, I might be able ...

Microsoft's Windows 8 Start screen UI wasn't shown off fully until mid-2011, but the company is now starting to show off mockups of how the software maker envisioned it back in 2010. Jensen Harris, ...

Late yesterday, Microsoft unveiled the new Windows 8 user interface -- or rather, the new Start Menu, and a hint of what Windows 8 apps will look and feel like. The new Start Menu -- or home screen -- ...

Windows 8 is coming in 2012: Here's an early look at 10 major new features and areas of improvement. Editor’s Note: As expected, Microsoft’s Windows President, Steven Sinofsky, took the stage at the ...

The first time Windows users started looking for an alternative OS en masse it was 2012, and Microsoft had just released a desktop UI so bad it would be almost entirely purged from existence within ...