While we use this weekend to recover from the whirlwind that is //BUILD/, there is still plenty of news to discuss from the past week. A preview of Windows 8.1 was released to everyone in attendance ...

In Windows 8.1, the Charms Bar consists of a set of five icons -- titled Search, Share, Start, Devices, and Settings -- that provide you with access to a host of controls. However, when I first began ...

One feature in Windows 8 many may find to be annoying, is the activation of charms bar when your mouse moves to the right corners. Although the feature in Windows 8 lets you quickly access settings ...

Windows 8 has a few new features (like the charms menu, the Start screen, and gesture commands) which may seem pointless or needlessly confusing at first blush. Experienced Windows users running a non ...

Say good-bye to the Charms Bar on the Windows 10 desktop Your email has been sent Greg Shultz takes a look at where the controls that used to appear on the Charms Bar have gone in Windows 10. In ...

Roughly a million people have downloaded the Windows Developer Preview that Microsoft released publicly at the opening of its BUILD Conference last week. For Microsoft, that’s good news and bad news.

According to the latest leaks out of Microsoft, the next major version of Windows -- Windows 9, Windows Threshold -- will kill off the Charms bar. And, if that wasn't enough to win back the droves of ...

The Charms bar is persona non grata in Windows 10. So how do you use and navigate the OS without it? Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's ...

Reports about the next major Windows release keep getting better and better. It looks like Microsoft has finally come to its senses and will dump the Charms bar in Windows 9 (also known as Threshold) ...

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Microsoft pulled back much of the scaffolding and secrecy surrounding Windows 8 today at Mobile World Congress. I've been using the Windows 8 beta (download), officially known as the Windows 8 ...