Microsoft revives Bill Gates’ “PC on every desk” promise for Windows 11, now it...
Decades after Bill Gates promised a PC on every desk, Microsoft is giving that vision a second act with "unmetered intelligence." Backed by RTX Spark and Project Zenith, the company wants Windows 11 PCs to run massive AI models locally without cloud latency or token fees. Here is what the shift means.
Microsoft said it would cut Windows 11 ads, then put a Harry Potter ad...
If you've set up Bing-powered wallpapers on Windows 11 (and Windows 10), you might see a full-fledged advertisement for Harry Potter.
Excel keeps people on Windows, and a Linux distro creator wants Microsoft to end...
DHH asked Satya Nadella why Word and Excel still don't run natively on Linux. Microsoft's FY2026 results show Windows is now a fraction of its revenue, while Azure and Microsoft 365 grow by double digits, making DHH's argument more plausible than it would've been a decade ago.
Microsoft engineer says “typing code is absolutely over,” and Windows 11 is already being...
When a veteran Microsoft engineer says traditional software development is behind us, the industry listens. David Fowler argues that manually typing code line-by-line is fading fast, replaced by AI agents in Aspire, WSL, and native Windows 11 workflows. Here is what it means for developers.
New Outlook quietly added 5 new features in August, but the All inboxes view...
Microsoft says it has finished rolling out the August 2026 update for Outlook, and there are quite a few notable changes
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.
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