On this day 11 years ago, Microsoft surprised the industry by extending full Windows 10 upgrades to non‑genuine Windows PCs — a move that felt almost unthinkable at the time. It signaled a dramatic ...

Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday fixes 120 flaws, including 31 remote code execution bugs, with no zero-days reported at release. Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday is a large one, even without a zero-day ...

Planner gives Microsoft 365 users a built-in task-management tool that small teams can use to track plans, tasks, and progress. Here’s our guide to using Planner on the web and within Microsoft Teams.

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

Every so often, Microsoft design director Diego Baca boots up an old computer so he can play around with Windows 95 again. Baca has made a hobby of assembling old PCs with new-in-box vintage parts, ...

To install Java on Windows and run Java apps on Microsoft’s operating system, you need to obtain a copy of the Java Development Toolkit (JDK) installation media. The JDK includes both a Java Runtime ...

OneNote is a robust note-taking app that integrates with Microsoft 365 but can also be used on its own for free. Here’s how to get up and running with it quickly. A note-taking app can be helpful, ...

Copilot in Excel introduces new finance-focused capabilities that help teams work to their standards, use trusted financial data, and stay in control of every change. GPT‑5.5 Instant is now available ...

If you possess even the most passing familiarity with terminal emulators on computers, you’ve likely heard of Linux’s Bash and Microsoft’s PowerShell. Both of these are ubiquitous in the lives of ...

Photos of the client running on my 1984 IBM 5155 Portable PC with a 4.77Mhz Intel 8088 CPU with MS-DOS 6.22. As there are no native HTTPS APIs for DOS, a HTTP-to-HTTPS proxy like this I've written ...