I’ve got good news for anyone who dumped money on Windows 8, or is still using Windows 7. If you upgrade to Windows 10 the first year of its release, it’s going to be free. Yes, free. No subscriptions, no limited features. Free. You might assume Microsoft’s copying machines went after Apple’s playbook with OS […]

Windows 8 is the operating system that nobody asked for, except for Microsoft executives who believed that the failed interface used on the Zune and Windows Phone must be brought over to a traditional PC environment. Even tech pundits who were inclined to favor Microsoft above logic were skeptical. After the release of Windows 8 in […]

So Microsoft has taken the wraps off a sorely needed refresh for the failing Windows 8. To some, it couldn’t come at a better time, because Microsoft has been vilified for totally misreading the trends in the PC industry, or just acting out of total desperation. Regardless, it’s pretty certain that Windows 8 has done […]

Amid reports that the iPhone garnered some 51.2% of smartphone sales in the U.S. during the last quarter, at least according to one survey, you wonder how Microsoft’s costly Windows Phone initiative is going. The answer, it seems, is not very far. The survey, from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech USA’s consumer panel, is based on 250,000 interviews, […]