Every graying movie franchise needs a great sequel to give it a boost. Think Star Trek and James Bond. Operating systems are no different—especially Microsoft’s. After receiving a critical beatdown ...

Other interface approaches seeing traction include speech recognition, which has been available already for years and continues to see improvements; the ability of a computer to recognize real-world ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is beginning to roll out its new Outlook.com design to all users in the ...

The importance of ergonomics in hardware design is easy to grasp, if not always simple to carry out. The end goal is to make a device as easy and comfortable to use as possible, both physically and ...

Microsoft’s next Xbox will run full Windows beneath a TV-optimised console shell, enabling PC storefronts like Steam.

In a nutshell: The OS updates coming to Apple devices later this year will institute the company's first major UI design shift in over a decade, but eagle-eyed observers noticed similarities with an ...

Windows 95 is 30 years old, and Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen continues sharing interesting tidbits about how the iconic operating system came together. Developing Windows 95 ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is starting to test new changes to the Xbox Home UI that will eventually ...

Microsoft is redesigning its Teams chat interface — in a way that mimics the organization of, say, PCWorld’s home page. Microsoft said Monday that it will begin testing a new Teams interface in ...

Microsoft claims that Agent Mode will make M365 Copilot more reliable in Excel. In its tests, Agent Mode received a score of ...