Ever since Microsoft introduced Windows 8 last fall people have been grumbling about a couple of things concerning the new operating system. First, because it’s so radically different from previous ...

Though Microsoft may yet have some trick up its sleeve, there’s a growing body of evidence from leaked screenshots that Windows 8’s taskbar will omit one mainstay of the Windows user interface: the ...

With Windows Blue, aka Windows 8.1, Microsoft is reintroducing a Start button and adding a boot-straight-to-desktop option. Here's how these may work. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for ...

This is the start of what I hope will be a long run for the Mostly Microsoft blog, and what better to start with than the issue of the Start button (or lack thereof) in Windows 8? It’s gone, according ...