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SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Corp. Windows president Steven Sinofsky previewed a touchscreen version of the operating system that can work on tablets, offering a glimpse of his company’s response to Apple Inc.’s iPad. Windows 8 resembles Microsoft’s software for mobile phones and uses “tiles,” rather...

Microsoft showed Thursday the next version of its Windows OS at a press event in Taipei, unveiling a completely new tile-based interface that it hopes will be better suited for the emerging world of tablet PCs. read more Link Removed

Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows Microsoft president Steven Sinofsky appeared live at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. He discussed Windows 8 in detail for the first time, focusing especially on the new tiles-based UI that will allow Windows 8-based slates to...

More features of Windows 8 have emerged from discoveries in a liked Milestone 1 build. The OS is now known to have a "push notification platform" that would would send alarms and other notices from a remote server to the app in question, much as on iOS. References to "tiles" and "toasts" suggest...

Leaked screenshots supposedly depicting Microsoft's next-generation operating system, Windows 8, show tiles similar to those on Windows Phone 7. The photos were posted on the site Withinwindows by Windows expert Rafael Rivera as speculation grows about how Windows 8 will run on tablet computers...