It hasn't always been smooth sailing for Microsoft, but there are clear moments in the company's history that proved to be ...

Commemorating Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, Bill Gates provides a first-hand account of the company’s origin story. The post gains extra charm from an interactive design that transforms the text into ...

A former Windows developer reveals why Windows was dragging around 30 MB of completely useless data for many years. The data ...

The update doesn’t bring any really big changes – it’s still an open source operating system designed to offer compatibility ...

It's hard to underscore or overstate how much of an influence Redmond-based Microsoft has had on the entire world of ...

It still has excellent compatibility with MS-DOS software, including Windows 3.1 and earlier, and many of the built-in ...

Several specialized companies were approached to provide the operating system ... Microsoft embraced the graphic interface ...

Is it worth paying for AI in Microsoft 365? APC finds out what Copilot can and can’t do in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook to help you decide. Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint users can ...

The model built by Bill Gates and Paul Allen remains decades later. What’s changed is how Microsoft responds to a flop.

The operating system diskette for this PC just happened to be running MS-DOS 5.0, so that was where I started. Armed with nothing more than a version number, the next time we went to our local ...

Microsoft has been at the heart of computing for half a century, becoming a tech stalwart almost taken for granted as lifestyles embraced the internet.

Windows Millenium Edition (Windows ME) paralleled Windows 2000 as a consumer-first operating system still tied to the legacy of MS-DOS, but didn’t exactly overwhelm users with its new consumer ...