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) ...

Devices are becoming much more of a lifestyle choice, and allowing users to customize their devices the way the want to is the hallmark of a mature platform. That’s why many users balked at Windows 8.

Less than a week after the Windows 8 launch, Microsoft is already subject to a lawsuit for one of its operating system's leading features: Live Tiles. A company called SurfCast, which appears to own ...

Microsoft likes tiles and wants you to like them, too. They've been around since Windows 8 and live on in Windows 10, even with the return of the Start menu. Whether you love tiles or not, you can ...

Reader Andreas wrote to tell us about a neat little trick for tiling a pair of windows in Windows. With the first window open, press and hold Ctrl, then right-click the second window's button in the ...

Microsoft is on the receiving end of a patent troll's lawsuit over its just launched Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The patent troll in question is SurfCast and they appear to believe that Microsoft's ...

In Asia, Microsoft researchers are experimenting with new ways to interact with the Live Tiles that are core to the Windows 8.X, Windows Phone, and Xbox user interfaces. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley ...

Microsoft researchers in Asia are experimenting with the usefulness and feasibility of making Windows' Live Tiles interactive. A newly published video clip from Microsoft Research's TechFest 2014 ...

Quickly and easily work side by side between two application windows by tiling them vertically (or horizontally). To do so, Ctrl+Click on each window you want to be visible on the taskbar and ...

Windows 8 is not always great at generating Start tiles for installed software. OblyTile is a small program that generates better-looking tiles and automatically installs them on your Start page. One ...

The Windows Start Screen apps are organized into groups of tiles. These tiles can be moved to other groups or even to a blank space where they will create a new group. It is also possible to name a ...