Microsoft has been slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit over its use of dynamic “live” tile icons in Windows, including in the newly launched Windows 8 OS for PCs and tablets and in the Windows ...

Interactive Live Tiles have been suggested by Microsoft fans since the very first unveiling of Windows Phone 7, back in 2011. They have been integral to many community-made concept videos designed to ...

Windows 11 may get a slightly detached “Floating Widgets” panel, perhaps reintroducing Live Tiles in a different avatar. The experimental feature is present in the latest test versions of Windows 11 ...

The latest Windows 11 Canary build 26212 has quietly introduced support for what is being called “Start Menu Companions.” These are small widget-like apps designed to appear alongside your pinned apps ...

I just got a big, high-res monitor, and I'm aching for a feature that I used to use heavily in XP: "Tile Vertical." You could select as many windows as you like, and tile them vertically so that they ...

Windows Phone 7 is slated to receive more than 500 updates when Mango arrives this fall. Among those will be a handful of improvements to the Live Tiles system, which powers the quadrilateral icons on ...