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Microsoft is digging its own grave with Windows 11, and it has to stop
At the end of the day, Microsoft doesn’t need to keep creating entirely new versions of Windows - it does so because outside ...
Microsoft’s worst software flop was secretly lurking in Windows for years
A former Windows developer reveals why Windows was dragging around 30 MB of completely useless data for many years. The data ...
I swapped my Windows laptop for a MacBook Air M4, and finally understand the hype
The M4 MacBook Air refines the ultraportable experience with modest but still impactful hardware upgrades and a lower ...
Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy
Away from desktop Windows, a few readers declared the acquisition of Nokia not necessarily a misstep, but what Microsoft did ...
Millions of Windows XP disks secretly included Microsoft's failed search assistant to keep pirates at bay — "Bob was actually more useful dead than alive"
Bob resurfaced from Microsoft's Graveyard to pad out the 30MB of free space in Windows XP, keeping pirates at bay.