A default installation of Windows 11 includes dozens of Microsoft apps. Which ones are worth keeping, and which ones should ...

We’re not 100% sure which phase of Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish” gameplan this represents, but just yesterday the Redmond software giant decided to grace us with the source ...

Do you like retro-pixelated wallpapers? Then these new free wallpapers from Microsoft are just the thing for you.

Starting in the 1990s, Windows NT ushered in a new architecture that has been carried forward more or less intact ever since. Current client version of Windows. Windows is a 64-bit OS and runs ...

If MS-DOS could play Doom, surely a battleship gray button was a possibility? Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has responded to suggestions that the Windows 95 setup was overly complicated.

Microsoft is closing its Remote Desktop app. Those wanting to continue accessing cloud machines can switch to the Windows App ...

The project was officially renamed, and the software was introduced to the public in 1983 under its new name, "Windows." It was envisioned as a graphical user interface (GUI) overlay for MS-DOS ...

In Microsoft terms though its history goes back only as far as Windows 98, earlier MS operating systems remain off-limits. Neither piece of software is especially useful, and we can’t see a rush ...

DOS could indeed "do graphics," but the Windows team decided to follow a smarter approach by recycling previously available code. Raymond Chen, a Microsoft employee who took part in the Windows ...