With all the touch talk around Windows 8, it’s important to remember that you still might be better off with an actual, hard, keyboard rather than the on-screen version baked into the software. Step forward Logitech (does anyone else even make...

Logitech is under no illusions about its place in the world of technology. Windows 8 has caused a shift in the computer landscape and there's a new experience ready for the right peripherals to augment it.

There are two new conundrums to...

Microsoft's president of Windows and Windows Live, Steven Sinofsky, is leaving the company only a couple of weeks after Windows 8 was launched worldwide.

At present, the reasons for his departure are unknown as is his destination, but the company...

HP has teamed up with Universal Music to try to attract the music-loving public to its latest Windows 8 PCs. But in the world of iTunes, Spotify and - let's face it - illegal downloads, what can the resulting Connected Music service bring to the end...

When Microsoft launched Windows 8 in New York last month the firm told Pocket-lint that it was being careful to get good apps in the store. It went on to tell us that that the apps you have when you launch are crucial to the success of your ecosystem.

Until...

In many ways, Microsoft is typical of a massive company. It's visibly slow to react to things, and it takes a very long time for the firm to manoeuvre. But 2012 is looking like the year it finally gets its ducks in a row. Windows 8, Windows Phone...

One of the more intriguing categories at the Pocket-lint Gadget Awards is Innovation of the Year. It’s open to all kinds of gadgets, software, apps, websites and just about anything else that we might write about on our good pages of this hive...

Microsoft has announced that four million customers paid for a Windows 8 upgrade in the first three days of the new operating system becoming available.

Speaking at the Microsoft BUILD conference, Steve Ballmer, CEO, said that Windows 8 was...

Ever since Xbox SmartGlass for Android unexpectedly hit Google Play at the weekend, there have beenmurmuringsfrom compatible smartphones about one of its headline features - compatibility with top driving game Forza Horizon.

Many have taken...

Microsoft launched its latest store in the tourist Mecca of Times Square at10pm on 25 October. Its mission: to sell the new Surface tablet to as many people as it could find with the cash to spare.

Opened by a trio of gigantic scissors, and...

Games such as Skyrim, Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed and Max Payne will be available to buy through the Windows 8 Store after all, following Microsoft’s decision to relax what content could and couldn’t be sold in the UK.

Previously,...

Steve Ballmer might have been bouncing about on stage with excitement at the Windows 8 launch, but we know not everything the big B touches is magic. Microsoft has thrown a lot out the Windows (sorry, we had to) with the new operating system, making...

Blimey, in just the space of one week we've seen the launches of the iPad mini, 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, new superthin iMac, new Mac mini, Windows 8, Windows RT and the Microsoft Surface. Apple also pulled a brand new iPad, effectively...

Oddly, the most interesting Windows 8 machines at the launch event weren't the laptops, but the all-in-one PCs. Consistently large crowds gathered to look at these machines, and we can see why.

Massive screens with bright colours really suit...

Sitting in the business class of computers, the Twist offers a powerful Windows 8 laptop, with a twisting screen that allows it to become a tablet - albeit rather a chunky and functional-looking device.

While it lacks the funky Dell screen...