Microsoft is adding an AI-powered Canvas to Excel that turns workbook data into interactive...
In July 2026, Microsoft added as many as six Copilot features to Excel, and I am not even considering the third-party integrations. Now, there's another one coming, and it's called Copilot...
Windows 95’s Start menu was invented by a chimpanzee-lab psychologist: ‘Even a rocket scientist...
While the Windows Start button has lived in the bottom-left corner for decades, its placement wasn't a random design choice. According to former Microsoft executives, a behavioral psychologist utilized Fitts's law and reading habits to ensure users could effortlessly find the new Windows 95 menu.
Windows 95’s taskbar didn’t come from Steve Jobs’ NeXT Dock, and a former Microsoft...
A Dell monitor post on X turned into a history lesson when former Microsoft VP Joe Belfiore corrected a popular theory about the Windows taskbar's origin. He says it came from a canceled Microsoft project's leftover tray design and a Windows 3.1 problem, not Steve Jobs' NeXT Dock.
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.
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