What comes to mind when you look back at the history of Windows? Is it the iconic logos, the ever-changing Start menus, or maybe the introduction of Live Tiles? The story of Microsoft’s flagship ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveils Copilot + PCs, a linchpin of the company’s plan to reinvent Windows, during a special event in Redmond in May 2024. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Editor’s Note: ...

Microsoft has arguably done more to shape the evolution of the PC than any other company. This week, Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary on April 4, 2025. Fifty years is a long time for anyone, ...

Dave Plummer was once a programmer for Microsoft, where he played a key role in the development of the Windows Task Manager as well as the ZIP archive import for the operating system. The man has ...

A recent column of mine hit a sour note with one open-source software developer. As it turns out, the Windows on Arm software development situation doesn't all come down to silicon and hardware ...

Microsoft engages in an extended public mea culpa about Vista, admitting the key reasons why the OS failed among business customers About a year ago on its Redmond, Washington, campus, a member of ...

Windows started operating under Azure's development schedule earlier this year. This means feature updates will now be finalized in December and June. Windows 10X will RTM with 20H2 in June 2020.

In an expansive effort to point its developer tooling at everything from the cloud to mobile to web to IoT to gaming to whatever, Microsoft may have neglected one obvious target: Windows. "Windows ...