The new Windows logo is a plain blue rectangle, divided into fourths and angled outward. Gone is the multi-colored, flag-like ripple that has defined the Windows logo since version 3.1.

Microsoft unveiled a new logo for the upcoming Windows 8, featuring a clean one-color design ... Last this month, Microsoft will take the wraps off the beta version of the operating system ...

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A Windows 8 beta version may not be ready yet, but Microsoft in September released a developer preview of the new OS. If you’d like to try it out, you can download the Windows 8 developer ...

Well, soon-ish. The beta version of Windows 8, the tablet-centric iteration of the Windows operating system, will be released in late February rather than a widely anticipated early January date ...

While there have been various minor Windows 8 leaks claimed and reported by various sites, Microsoft has kept a tight lid on its next version of Windows to date. But in the past few days, rumors ...

In the latest beta of Windows 8, which is the first available to the public, Microsoft makes Metro more mouse- amenable. When arranging an individual Metro tile, other tiles rearrange in realtime ...

Microsoft may release the first public beta of Windows 8 as early as February 2012, according to sources close to the company cited by The Next Web.An exact date for the completion and shipping of ...

Microsoft this week offered some tips about connecting the Windows 8 "customer preview" beta with Windows Home Server (WHS). It's possible to connect the client beta with WHS, but users presently ...

As a casual aside, while discussing the future of the tiletastic Windows Store, a Microsoft vice president announced that the Windows 8 beta would begin in late February 2012. If it follows the ...

And Windows 8 is very good at task switching. It's ludicrously fast all round, by the feel of it so far. The superfast boot claims, for example, seem so far to be true.