Morrissey celebrates Microsoft ditching the Charms Bar, with gladioli. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is said to be giving up on the whole Charms schtick. Windows 9 — the assumed name for codename Threshold ...

Microsoft will issue a preview of “Threshold,” the current code name for Windows 8’s successor, as soon as next month, according to an online report today. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, citing unnamed ...

Microsoft plans to do more than just reintroduce a Start menu to make Windows 9, aka "Threshold," more appealing to Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 users. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the ...

With Microsoft expected to make available a public technical preview of Windows Threshold around late September or early October, it's a good time to revisit the thorny cadence question. For ...

On Tuesday, Microsoft will offer details about the next version of Windows. Much of what really matters, says ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, lies in how Redmond is building, testing and updating the OS. Mary ...

Windows 9 might come as a free download, but only to certain users While the Windows 8.1 update is now available to users, Microsoft is already working on the next major desktop OS release, which ...

Windows "Threshold," the next major version of Microsoft's Windows operating system due to hit around the spring of 2015, is coming into focus. And not too surprisingly, one of the Microsoft Operating ...

Microsoft mostly kept its head down during CES, but with its Build developer conference on the horizon and several platforms to unify, the company has a busy few months ahead of it. Simply put, we ...