Microsoft allowed its MSDN and TechNet subscribers to download the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) versions of Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 09, 2013
Windows 8.1, the update to Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, has been released to manufacturers, according to reports from sources.
- By Chris Paoli
- August 26, 2013
The first major update to Windows Embedded 8 Industry, the latest version of Microsoft's embedded operating system for intelligent devices, will reach original equipment manufacturers on Oct. 18.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 21, 2013
Paris-based Arkoon Network Security will launch a product this fall that will give organizations running Windows XP the kind of patch support that Microsoft will discontinue after the operating system loses support.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2013
Microsoft recently warned organizations against continuing to use Windows XP after its "extended support" phase ends on April 8, 2014.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 19, 2013
Microsoft has made it official: The next wave of Windows client and datacenter products will all be released on Oct. 18.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 14, 2013
A securities litigation firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over Surface RT sales disclosures.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 13, 2013
Top executives from Acer Inc. and ASUSTek Computer Inc. said this week that their companies are planning to scale down production of some of their Windows-based hardware.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 09, 2013
Despite struggling with its Surface line of tablets, a recent CNET report suggests Microsoft is plowing ahead with developing the Surface 2.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 08, 2013
A life insurance company in Japan is rolling out one of the largest known deployments of Windows 8-based tablets.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 07, 2013
Shipments of tablets running Windows experienced a 527 percent year-over-year growth in the second quarter of 2013, market research firm IDC reported Monday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz, Gladys Rama
- August 05, 2013
The Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview became available for download on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 31, 2013
The Windows 8.1 preview release received a third set of non-security updates from Microsoft this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 26, 2013
It looks like the preview versions of Microsoft's Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 operating systems are following a faster update schedule than their predecessors.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2013
PC makers will get access to the final Windows 8.1 code in late August, Microsoft officials confirmed Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 08, 2013