Windows 8 News

Windows 8 will be unveiled in about two weeks. When do you think will it be available for preorder?

The first results are in for our poll “Will you preorder Windows 8″. The results are quite amazing 50% of over 600 people will actually preorder Windows 8. More statistics after the break.

First app designs for Windows 8 tablets are being unveiled, giving us a glimpse of what to expect in the furue.

There’s a rumor that the paying attendees of Microsoft’s BUILD conference (coming up in September) are each going to receive a Windows 8 tablet prototype. It is already known that Microsoft will disclose more details of Windows 8 at that conference and give attendees a Windows 8 preview version.

Microsoft has announced the presence of features that will make file management easier in Windows 8 compared to Windows 7. These features are focused on the 4 most commonly performed tasks in Windows Explorer — Copying, Pasting, Deleting and Renaming.

Microsoft’s Director of Program Management for the Devices and Networking group, David Flanagan recently talked about the native support of the USB 3.0 standard on Windows 8 on the Building Windows 8 (B8) MSDN blog.

Microsoft has launched the official Windows 8 development blog to discuss everything related to developing the next generation of the operating system.

Rumors have been going around for a long time about a dedicated App Store on Windows 8. Microsoft has now confirmed that the same is indeed in the works.

Microsoft has officially confirmed the Windows 8 app store. Rumored for a long time, now it will become a reality in 2012.

Microsoft launched the official Windows 8 engineering blog. Steven Sinofsky unveiled why they haven’t talked more about Windows 8 yet and that Windows 8 will be beyond everything what you expected.