Greg Shultz takes a look at 8GadgetPack, a free tool that reinstalls the original desktop gadget program files in Windows 8.x. Find out how to use 8GadgetPack to install any Windows desktop gadget.

Like Windows 8, the original Windows attempted to simplify computing without jettisoning legacy applications. Where Windows 8 has the familiar desktop waiting beneath its Metro UI, Windows 1.0 ran ...

Microsoft's ill-fated Windows 8 operating system was well ahead of its time, and Windows 11 could learn a thing or two about touch UX from it.

Furthermore, again according to insider sources, Windows 8.2 will introduce a "traditional desktop" SKU that is optimized for mouse-and-keyboard Desktop users and resurrects the original Start menu.

Windows 10 S is the future (but not the present) of the desktop PC. In a world defined by security holes and data breaches, ... The original Windows 8 went out of mainstream support in January 2016.

Rick Walrond, a Windows Phone app developer, has demonstrated how he's managed to get one of his games running on Windows 8 with over 90 percent of the original code. The port of AlphaDrops took ...

Microsoft Windows desktop apps are now ready for ARM PCs. Let’s step back from the cloud and look at Windows itself running on PCs. A decade ago, Microsoft seemed to agree with all the chatter ...