Way back in 2010, I had a publisher approach me about writing a book on the soon-to-be-released Windows Phone 7 operating system. As I wrote the book and gained familiarity with the phone's OS, I ...

Is that a widget, or a Live Tile on your screen? Back in the early days of Windows Phone, Microsoft’s homescreen was basically just a grid of “flat” icons, but unlike Apple’s grid of “dimensional” ...

Even Microsoft knows that Windows Live Tiles have so much potential to be a lot better, especially on touchscreen devices. In fact, a group of the company's researchers in Asia have apparently been ...

Windows Phone 7 offers the ability to display dynamic tiles, known as Live Tiles. My previous article serves as a good tutorial showing how to create Live Tiles. This will serve as the starting point ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has been working on making its signature Live Tiles much more ...

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.

Live Tiles are images that update a pinned tile (icon) on the start screen of Windows Phone. They're used to offer updates to a user browsing the start screen, without having to open the application ...

A resizable icon that can access information in real time from the Internet or from the application. Live tiles were introduced in Windows 8, and their function depends on the application. Tiles do ...

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 ...

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 ...

Certain Metro tiles in Windows can show you live and updated information. Here's how to turn that feature on and off. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

Square colorful tiles that flash useless information alongside other tiles on the screen doing the same thing. Distracting bits of tiny text that are rarely looked at and totally unnecessary. These ...