The New York Times' Nick Bilton poses an interesting question on the Bits blog on February 25: Should and could PC operating systems look more like mobile operating systems? In Microsoft's case, that ...

Adobe Systems' Mark Hamburg will work on Windows' user experience. His recent Adobe work gives a clue about his design goals: "elegance," "personality." Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

At Microsoft's recent Ignite conference, the company teased the new Windows 12 user interface (UI) with a screenshot that left viewers in awe. This screenshot of a redesigned UI was displayed to ...

Microsoft issued the next build of its Windows 10 preview today. Build 10074 of the Windows 10 preview is coming to Microsoft's Windows Insider Program participants via the Windows Update automatic ...

Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Build 21376 with a preview of a new default font for Windows 10 called 'Segoe UI Variable.' For years, the default font family used in Microsoft branding and ...

Windows 11 is a legacy PC operating system, and these archaic Microsoft apps and system components prove as much.

While Microsoft has been offering versions of Windows with optimizations for touchscreen displays ever since Windows XP Tablet edition, the truth is that the whole start menu, taskbar, and itty bitty ...

Windows 11 just got a new interface for the setup process of the OS - the first time the installation UI has been modified in ages - but it seems that this new look has been kicking about in Windows ...

Every graying movie franchise needs a great sequel to give it a boost. Think Star Trek and James Bond. Operating systems are no different—especially Microsoft’s. After receiving a critical beatdown ...