By now, all you Windows Phone 7 device owners should be well aware that you’re not going to be joining the Windows Phone 8 party. Microsoft has chosen to keep WP8 exclusively on new devices, and won’t be back-porting it to older WP7 devices. As a consolation prize, the old hardware will be getting an [...]

Just when you thought the desktop iteration of Windows 8 couldn’t get any worse, we get some news like this. Video distribution firm Brightcove sent a letter to Gizmodo today, indicating that IE10 in Windows 8′s Metro environment won’t run Flash properly, unless the site on which it is embedded is on a Microsoft-curated whitelist. From [...]

Windows 8′s tile-based UI is definitely not for everyone. Some people have gotten used to it now, but many others who have used it since the early Preview builds still hate the Metro UI. Fortunately, a software company called Thinix has come to the rescue of those Metro UI nay-sayers. They’ve just released a Windows [...]

It’s been a good run for the current Microsoft logo. Those big italicized letters, with the distinctive Pac-Man-esque cutout, have been in use as the logo for the American tech giant since 1987. All good things come to an end, however, and today Microsoft unveiled their new logo. The new design, unveiled as part of [...]