Beta of next iteration of the OS lands, while Apple announces what is expected to be an iPad 3 event. Also: Facebook and Zynga breaking up? Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. He's ...

Microsoft has today announced the availability of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, a beta version of the highly-anticipated "next milestone" for the Windows operating system. At Mobile World Congress ...

Microsoft now has official release timing in mind for the Windows 8 Beta. It’s launching in late February alongside the Windows Store for apps. So the rumor we covered last week was correct. Microsoft ...

The chance to try Windows 8 in beta form may be just a couple months away. Citing “sources close to Microsoft,” The Next Web reports that Microsoft will launch a public beta of Windows 8 in late ...

The bad news is that the Consumer Preview (build 8250) has removed some useful things and introduced a few new flaws, not least of which is failing to install at least once on a machine with more than ...

Ever since we learned Microsoft would let everyone to download a developer preview of Windows 8, we were gearing up to take it for a ride and tell you about it. There are currently three versions ...

Microsoft has announced key details of Windows 8's application store. Redmond promises to give developers more flexibility, more customers, and more money than Apple does--and it says that the Windows ...

Recent data shows that the Windows 8 developer preview is rarely being used — less than a quarter of the uptake of the Windows 7 beta in a longer period of time. That’s just one more piece of evidence ...

Microsoft's First Apps contest offers tantalizing hints, but there's still no guarantee when we'll see ARM version of Windows 8 At the Windows Store presentation yesterday, Windows Web Services VP ...