Why Windows stopped including fun games like Minesweeper, Solitaire, and Pinball
From Reversi in 1985 to Chess Titans in Windows 7, Windows spent two decades shipping real games in the box. Windows 8 pulled them all and pushed the Microsoft Store instead, not because Microsoft gave up on games, but because the whole relationship between Windows and games had changed.
Microsoft dumps its best file-sharing tool for Windows-Android-iOS, called Edge Drop
Microsoft only seems to care about getting Copilot/AI right in the Edge browser, and it's slowly removing everything that made it appealing.
“Now includes TETRIS for Windows!” The story behind Microsoft’s 1990s last-minute sticker gamble
Why Microsoft's 1990s Entertainment Pack shipped with a "Now includes TETRIS" sticker, and I'd love if Windows 11 has these fun products.
Microsoft’s latest AI rebrand beats its own history of terrible rebrands, renaming Microsoft 365...
If you use Microsoft 365 and want to know what’s coming next, what would you search for on Google/Bing? Microsoft 365 Roadmap, right? Wrong. Microsoft now wants you to search for...
Windows XP’s most famous pirated key wasn’t a hack, and a Microsoft engineer explains...
If you used a PC in the early 2000s, this image of a CD with FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 written with a marker needs no explanation.
Before the iPhone, Microsoft had already built the smartphone, running a Windows you probably...
Long before the iPhone, Microsoft and Orange launched the SPV in 2002, a Windows-powered smartphone with email, calendar, and Exchange integration years ahead of its time. From Windows CE's early handhelds to the Pocket PC era, here's how Microsoft's mobile head start slipped away.
“It was fun,” Microsoft on why Windows 95 had music, cartoons, and games
Windows 95 turns 31 today, and Raymond Chen explains why its CD shipped with a Weezer video, cartoons, and games nobody asked for. Because it was fun. That instinct built one of the best-selling operating systems ever, and it is the same instinct Windows 11 has quietly lost somewhere along the way.
Microsoft CEO warns AI dependency can mean “outsourcing your thinking,” and it should worry...
Satya Nadella says a firm will not exist if it does not have control over the knowledge or data, as models have "outsourced your thinking."
Microsoft’s leaked new OS is one you’ll hope stays buried, and it’s not Windows
Microsoft spent 2024 building a working Copilot-only OS called Project Aion, dropping the Start menu, desktop icons, and Win32 apps for an AI shell built on Edge. I went through the leak in detail, and I hope this one stays buried, though Windows 11's agent workspace tells a different story.
Microsoft now pays you if you invite your friends to use Edge browser on...
If you invite enough friends to Microsoft Edge, you can easily buy yourself Xbox Game Pass or a gift card through Microsoft Rewards.
Microsoft has launched a new initiative where it rewards...
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