A look at the beautiful app in the Windows 8 Release Preview: Cocktail Flow

Windows 8 fails to offer third-party app developers a level playing field by allowing only Microsoft applications to access many of the restricted APIs. However, is this sufficient cause for an antitrust investigation?

Since Windows 8 Consumer Preview was released, there has been a lot of noise about usability. Is it justified?

Windows Live now allows you to connect to Google to keep contacts in sync. Is this is prepration for native support of Google services in WP7/W8?

Microsoft announces major upgrades to SkyDrive coming with Windows 8, making personal cloud and device cloud a reality.

Microsoft has built the environment and the OS. Will OEMs and developers complete their bit and make Windows 8 tablets succeed?

Windows 8 is a tremendous opportunity for developers. Smart developers would be building for Windows 8 already. Are you one of them?

Windows Store Games revealed ahead of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Beta).

New leaked screenshots of Windows 8 suggest that Microsoft has decided to kill the famous Windows Start button.

Microsoft on Friday revealed details on its new “Picture Password” technology, which basically allows Windows 8 users to login to their system by simply drawing preset patterns on a picture that is manually selected. So, every time you want to login to your Windows 8 system, you need to draw those specific patterns and get access to the computer.

BlueStacks App Player enables Windows users to run Android apps and games fluidly in full screen mode.

BluePoison for Windows 8 offers a simple way to skin Windows 8 in addition to offering some simple Metro UI tweaks.

To completely revamp your Windows 8 Metro screen background, try Windows 8 Start Tweaker. It’s a useful portable utility which can be used to change the background wallpaper of Windows 8 start screen and choose a custom color for Windows 8 logon screen as well.

Windows 8 introduces a new Metrofied pre-boot troubleshooting utility that offers System Restore, Factory Reset, and Refresh. Safe Mode is still present; however, it has a new hotkey.

Metro UI Tweaker for Windows 8 is another handy little tweaking app, which can toggle the Metro and Ribbon interface and add power options to the Start screen.