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 ...

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 ...

When I asked y’all last week if you would miss Windows 10’s Live Tiles if Microsoft decided to do away with them in a future release, more than 60-percent of you said you would not. But it turns out ...

Microsoft just launched Windows 8 last week and it’s already getting sued over Live Tiles by an OS development company called Surfcast. Surfcast claims that it already owns the rights to technology ...

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 ...

Widgets are small applets that provide quick access to glanceable information, while also serving as shortcuts to full applications. Windows 11 offers native support for widgets, but they can't be ...

Mobile advertising firm Amobee has announced its new advertising unit for the Windows Phone OS. The User Generated Ad (UGA) will be a Live Tile, which allows consumers to determine the ads they want ...

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 ...

It seems to be happening with just the Microsoft apps: Weather (the most noticeable and annoying... 90% of the time it's just the blue square w/ white sun logo, the other 10% is hours old data that ...

Eg. you go to the home-screen and press or swipe over a tile in a certain way so that it expands to take up two columns, or two rows (smoothly displacing other tiles), and when you're done (eg. when ...