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.

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) ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple has introduced yet another way to help manage overlapping windows on the Mac, but you have to know where it is on macOS Sequoia — and it doesn't seem to be complete. Now with macOS Sequoia, it's ...

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 ...

One of the most visually striking features of Windows Phone 8.1 is the addition of the new Start Background feature that enables users to set their favourite Start screen with a background image being ...

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 ...

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 ...