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.
Windows 11 just got a new trick for multitasking, and it’s handy if you’ve...
There's a new feature for Windows 11 (and Windows 10) if you use PowerToys, and it's called "Window Hopper."
“It’s optional,” Microsoft on Windows 11 tool forcing Bing in Chrome, Firefox, and Brave.
Microsoft has responded to backlash over its app that switches Chrome, Firefox, and Brave to Bing search. The company told Windows Latest the tool isn't distributed through Windows or Edge, requires consent before changing defaults, and settings can be reverted anytime you choose.
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 needs to act, as drivers are trashing Windows 11 more than anything else,...
Microsoft and acknowledged that its recent Windows update broke compatibility with a driver, which eventually caused the game crashes.
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.
Windows 11 26H2 is weeks away, and Microsoft just revealed everything about it
We're expecting the Windows 11 2026 Update to ship in about a month, around the end of September or early October, and I found some details.
Windows 11’s File Explorer is restoring a feature it disabled for security, with a...
Microsoft is finally adding a new "Preview anyway" button to File Explorer to give you greater control when you trust the files.
“Sort of a feature,” Microsoft on why Ctrl+C fails on Windows 11 due to...
A viral meme about mashing Ctrl+C multiple times got Tim Sweeney asking Microsoft why. Turns out Raymond Chen already answered months earlier: Windows clipboard history listens asynchronously, so a second copy can beat the first one to the punch, and Microsoft calls that a feature, not a bug.
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 you with points...
Windows 11 is modernizing a mouse indicator that hasn’t changed since the Windows XP
Windows 11 is modernizing a mouse indicator that hasn't changed since the days of Windows XP, and adding a new feature.
Microsoft built a Classic Outlook “skin” for New Outlook to win over users who...
Microsoft says it will let users apply an Outlook Classic-like interface to New Outlook using built-in themes.
Microsoft explains why Pinball vanished from Windows: “We couldn’t afford to spend days studying...
3D Pinball disappeared after Windows XP, and Raymond Chen explains why. A 64-bit porting bug sent the ball falling straight through the table, and with an outside company's uncommented code and a deadline looming, Microsoft's engineers made the call to cut it.
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