Microsoft announced on Friday that it has "launched" a custom portal technology for organizations called "Windows Apportals." Apportals (pronounced "app portals") is a Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 portal ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

Stardock has announced the immediate availability of ShadowFX, a customization tool that adds back drop shadows to Windows 8 along with a variety of custom options that tailor to your personal taste.

Like putting a personal touch on your PCs? Customization options abound in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, but these features can often be hard to find, an issue exacerbated by Microsoft’s dual (or should ...

Suggesting that reviews of Windows 8 have been mixed is a bit of an understatement, but you don’t have to take my word for it; Microsoft’s bold new operating system is available right now, and if you ...

If Windows 8 changed a lot of things for longtime Microsoft users than Windows 8.1 made those changes easier to swallow. The free update from Microsoft added new customization options for the Start ...

Windows 8 received mixed reviews when it was released last October. Critics blasted Microsoft for its dramatically redesigned user interface and removing the famous Start button. Concerns were eased ...

In the past, the built-in method to create a screenshot in Windows was to use + or to copy a screenshot into the clipboard. You would then have to paste that image into another program that has the ...