A Google researcher and former Microsoft engineer argues that Windows NT's unified object model still puts Linux to shame. As AI agents demand stricter containment, Laurie Kirk explains why NT was built for this moment, and imagines an alternate history where Microsoft released an "Open NT."

Satya Nadella has unveiled Microsoft's biggest Copilot overhaul yet, calling it a "new OS for work." The unified super app ditches simple chat to embed Word, Excel, and PowerPoint directly, while adding no-code app building and autonomous Autopilot agents. Here is what Microsoft's new AI vision looks like.

Microsoft is changing Excel's decades-old one-value-per-cell approach, as it's getting the ability to have multiple values in a single cell.

Microsoft 365's X account now tells followers to go find Copilot at @MSFTCopilot instead, part of a years-long rename chain from Office to Microsoft 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot to just Copilot. The replies show just how little sense any of it makes to actual customers.

Windows 11 broke Remote Desktop, USB audio, File History, and more in September alone. We checked nine months of Windows 10 and Windows 11 updates side by side, and Windows 10's quieter update history says a lot about what Microsoft has, and hasn't, been changing in Windows 11.

In March, Windows Latest was the first to notice that Microsoft's official Copilot Discord server was blocking messages containing "Microslop." Anyone who tried to post it got a moderation warning, and people quickly started...

Microsoft is killing Microsoft 365 mini apps, even after the company tried to force-install them on PCs with an eligible subscription.

Google's Googlebook page features Microsoft Copilot and M365 among its top productivity apps, spotted first by Windows Latest. It's an odd nod from a company that once fought Microsoft over a YouTube app on Windows Phone, especially as Copilot keeps losing ground inside Windows 11 itself.

Microsoft has finally admitted that Windows 11 may no longer correctly back up your files, even if you've configured the feature 'File History.' According to our tests, the bug affects almost everyone who installed...

Setting up a fresh Windows 11 PC for development usually means an hour of dodging upsells, clearing MSN clutter, and toggling hidden settings. Microsoft's open-source Windows Developer Config automates the entire ritual with a single command. I tested it to see what changes and what it leaves out.

Windows 11 KB5124010 is now rolling out, and it lets you try new features before the next Patch Tuesday release. This update significantly improves Bluetooth, makes File Explorer better, lets you remap the Copilot...

A solid color should be the easiest thing for an operating system to render. Yet shortly after Windows 7 launched, choosing one caused the Welcome screen to hang for exactly 30 seconds. Veteran engineer Raymond Chen explained how a missing signal broke the logon process, and how users worked around it.

Microsoft spent 2026 overhauling Windows 11 for developers with native Linux containers, Project Zenith, and Coreutils. Yet a new poll across thousands of developers puts Windows at just 12%, with macOS and Linux dominating. Here is why the startup crowd is still avoiding Windows despite huge updates.

Windows 11's emergency update still breaks audio on some PCs, and it looks like a fix won't arrive until October 2026 Patch Tuesday, which is scheduled for October 13. On September 8, Microsoft released KB5124008,...

If you delete a file in Windows and quickly create another with the same name, the new file can inherit the old creation timestamp. It is not a bug—it is an intentional feature called File System Tunneling. Here is why Microsoft built it into NTFS and why safe saves depend on it.