Debuting in Windows 8 RTM this week, the new Bing app uses the familiar tile style to display your search results. Lance Whitney Contributing Writer Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and ...

One of the highlights of Windows 8.1 is the new “smart search” feature, which pulls together results from Bing’s search engine, Wikipedia, documents on your desktop and from apps that allow Windows ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Did you install all your updates today on Windows 8.1 for Patch Tuesday? Then you might notice ...

The rumors were true: On Friday, Microsoft announced Windows 8.1 with Bing, a new version of Windows 8.1 available only to hardware manufacturers. The new edition of Windows appears to be the same as ...

There was all this chatter late in the week about a Microsoft campaign to boost the acceptance of Window 8. According to multiple sites, including The Verge, the idea is that Microsoft would make a ...

Documentation allegedly associated with the “Windows 8.1 with Bing” release appears to show that, from a product sense, very little will differentiate it from a standard Windows implementation. Noted ...

Microsoft is reportedly preparing a "Windows 8.1 with Bing" version of its desktop OS that would supposedly be offered free of licensing fees, as the company experiments with different monetization ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Earlier this year, the head of Microsoft’s search team, Qi Lu, unveiled ...

Microsoft is expected to expand the lineup of Windows 8.1 versions with at least one, and probably two, new editions of the operating system. The first is a straightforward affair. At the moment, ...

Google's share of the desktop search market could drop if Windows 10 sees widespread adoption. Windows 10 is jam packed with features that tie directly into these services, in particular, its search ...