Bits and pieces of Microsoft’s sweeping aesthetic changes to Windows 10, codenamed Sun Valley, have dropped over the last few months. The OS is getting support for the Advanced Audio Codec (AAC) codec ...

There's nothing like trying to sneak in a story at the end of the day on Friday in hopes that no one will notice! Cortana, the beloved character from the Halo game franchise, was at one time Microsoft ...

When was the last time you ripped a CD? Well, if you’re still in the mood to convert discs to digital music files, Windows 11 has got your back. Or, at least, it will have soon. Microsoft is testing ...

If you’ve used Android apps on Windows, you’re likely using the Windows Subsystem for Android and the Amazon Appstore. However, Microsoft has announced that they are sunsetting the service in 2025.

Pack up your things, Windows 7 users. It’s time to move on, as Microsoft today ends support of the venerable OS. So to the millions of people still running the OS: now’s really, truly the time to ...

We probably should have known something was up when they didn’t give WordPad a dark mode. Just before the long holiday weekend, Microsoft added WordPad to its list of “Deprecated Features” for Windows ...

Microsoft has been warning us for almost a year now and the day has come that Windows 7 has reached EOL and is officially dead for consumers. That means if you are still running the operating system, ...

The photo you see above -- the default wallpaper for Windows XP -- is probably the most recognizable image in the world. What you probably didn't know is that it's a real photo, called Bliss, taken by ...

In the words of Willie Nelson, "Turn out the lights, the party's over, they say that all good things must end." Well, the party's almost over, anyway—after more than a decade of dutiful service to the ...