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CNET's Donald Bell talks to senior editor Seth Rosenblatt about the latest features and drawbacks of the new Windows operating system.

Hold on to your hats, Windows fans: there's a new operating system in town. Windows 8 lives way out on the frontier of touch screens and apps, and it hasn't forgotten how to interact with legacy software. But there's some trickiness to figuring out how it all fits together. We show you what's what in this First Look at Microsoft's future-forward Windows 8.

Forget about touchpads and clickpads, the latest way to interface with your laptop is the pressure-sensitive ForcePad.

The Microsoft Wedge Touch Mouse is meant to travel light with your Windows 8 tablet-to-be. It works well with Android tablets, too.

Microsoft has Windows 8 tablets in mind for its new mobile keyboard, but the smart keyboard-and-tablet-stand combo is a great fit for all kinds of devices.

The ThinkPad Tablet 2 runs a full Windows 8 Professional OS, but does so on a next-gen Intel Atom processor.

Molly Wood unboxes a hot, new Windows Ultrabook. But can it compete with the new MacBook Air?

CNET's Rafe Needleman demos gesture-control software for Windows 8.

The new Series 9's smaller and lighter than a 13-inch MacBook Air, but it's also more expensive. Take a look at a Windows ultrabook that's hard to beat, provided you can afford it.

Barnes & Noble may be prepping a new 7-inch Nook that has a "revolutionary screen." What does that even mean? Also, an iPhone rumor is born every minute, and Microsoft finally realizes that nobody wants to pay $1 million for Windows 8.

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Kirk Koenigsbauer show off the new Office for consumers and businesses, with redesigned apps including OneNote, Sharepoint, PowerPoint, and Excel. The cloud-based software will be available for tablets, smartphones, and desktop devices.

Anti-Twin is a Windows application that detects and deletes duplicate files on your system. You can even set it to compare pixels to find duplicate pictures! Check out today's Tekzilla Daily to see it in action.

CNET's Josh Lowensohn sits down with Sumi Das to talk about the > unveiling of the new Windows 8 phone and what it will take for > Microsoft to compete with the all-powerful Android and iOS platforms.

Spectacle is a Mac app that lets you easily arrange windows with keyboard shortcuts. You can align windows to the left, right, and every which way...enough to make even Windows 7 jealous.

Did you know that Windows has a built-in program for setting automatic recurring reminders? Veronica explains how to get things up and running so you'll never need to use Microsoft Outlook to set reminders again.

The powerful Galaxy S3 lands with high marks, Verizon widens its LTE lead and Windows Phone 8 will be out this fall -- but not for current Windows Phone users.

Microsoft's Kevin Gallo demos new speech-recognition technology running Windows Phone 8. The company partnered with Audible on the tech, which lets users search and move around the platform from app to app.

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Steven Sinofsky announce a line of tablet devices at press event in Los Angeles Monday. The Surface tablets, running Windows 8, feature 10.6-inch touch screens wrapped in a magnesium case. They also feature a magnetically-attached, 3mm-thick Touch Cover that folds down and functions as a full touch-screen keyboard.

Don't want to wait for Windows 8 to get those cool new features? On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you how WinPlusX can give you access to at least one of those new menus.

If you hate it when OS X Lion restores all your windows, we have the answer. On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you how RestoreMeNot can mitigate that restoration chaos.

The SpaceX ship splashes back down to Earth, Windows 8 Preview Release adds touch pad multitouch gestures, and Leap Wireless will sell the iPhone without a contract.

Windows 8 takes its penultimate step before lockdown, adding multitouch trackpad support and showing off a more complete version of Microsoft's next-gen operating system. Take a tour of the nearly-finished Windows 8 Release Preview.

Ever wish you could reopen that Windows Explorer folder you just closed by accident? On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you how UndoClose can reopen both applications and folders after you've exited.

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Nokia Lumia 900 and gives you a look inside this Windows 8 phone.

The HTC Titan II is a solid Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) handset, but how does its hardware compare to the previous Titan (just a few months old) and Nokia's flagship Windows Phone handset--the Lumia 900?

Longing for more features for Windows Explorer? StExBar gives you a bunch of new options for your Explorer windows, and Veronica has the details on today's Tekzilla Daily.

Shareholders sue Facebook, Amazon Prime Instant Video adds hundreds of movies, and Windows Phone users must update to the latest operating system to download apps.

AT&T unveils the Samsung Focus 2, a $50 LTE Windows Phone, at CTIA 2012.

One of the best things about Windows 8 is that you can sync settings, apps, and more across multiple computers and tablets. Here's how you do it.

You don't need to be an editing genius to create custom ringtones from your music library. Sharon Vaknin shows you how to personalize your incoming call alerts on your iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows phones.