Apps that use the “new Windows” approach to programming will be built in HTML and JavaScript, said Windows president Steven Sinofsky at D9’s Windows 8 announcement today. Windows 8 will run ...

Analysts took time to comment on "Windows 8," Microsoft's newest operating system under development, following announcements made this month at the D9 Conference and Computex. Much about the OS ...

Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. Now that the ...

One of the stranger decisions that Microsoft made when developing Windows 8 was that the new model of building apps was to be based not on .NET, but rather on a new development technology called ...

Microsoft is kicking off its Windows Build conference on September 13. I spent Monday, September 12, in a day-long deep dive on Windows 8, where Microsoft officials shared a preview of some of its ...

(MoneyWatch) The transition to each new version of Windows has always drawn criticism. Back in 2001, even the now-beloved Windows XP was met with widespread derision for its supposedly IQ-lowering ...