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 ...

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 ...

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 is showing developers how the “Mango” update for Windows Phone 7 will bring new features to the Live Tiles on the home screen. For instance, developers can now create multiple tiles for one ...

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 ...

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 ...

I've made myself a little Live Tile group for frequent websites on Windows machines/Windows Phone devices and notice that some tiles seem to getting updates from the website to update with the latest ...

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 ...