A smaller operating system technology designer is accusing Microsoft of ripping off its technology for use in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, overseeing ...

Way back in 2010, I had a publisher approach me about writing a book on the soon-to-be-released Windows Phone 7 operating system. As I wrote the book and gained familiarity with the phone's OS, I ...

Windows users aren't the biggest fans of the Live Tiles that make the Windows 10 Start Menu appear cluttered, but that could all be coming to an end soon. Twitter user, Aggiornamenti Lumia, posted the ...

Love them or hate them, Live Tiles are an integral part of Windows these days, and they aren’t going anywhere any time soon. In fact, it looks as though they’re about to get some welcome improvements ...

Rumor has it that Microsoft may pull the plug on the Live Tiles feature in Windows 10. Actually, that rumor has been making the rounds since last summer when Microsoft (apparently accidentally) ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has been working on making its signature Live Tiles much more ...

Microsoft has lost control over a crucial subdomain that Windows 8 and Windows 10 use to deliver RSS-based news and updates to Live Tiles --animated Windows start menu items. The subdomain ...

Microsoft's Live Tiles interface was first introduced with Windows 8, but even with the wide rollout of Windows 10 over the last half-year, they remain mostly the same in terms of interaction and ...

Microsoft has been slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit over its use of dynamic “live” tile icons in Windows, including in the newly launched Windows 8 OS for PCs and tablets and in the Windows ...