Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...

The August 2025 (KB5063878) Windows update caused an issue that prevented non-admin users from carrying out several vital operations due to misbehaving UAC prompts. Microsoft has since released its ...

Windows comes with some default apps, but they often fall short of covering everyday needs. If you want to work more efficiently, keep track of your PC's performance, or navigate with ease, ...

Microsoft's secret new Start menu replacement is impressive — and might even be a sneak preview of what's on the way with Windows 12. The Windows Start menu isn’t the best search tool when it comes to ...

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time? If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 ...

To use WMI, you must create a new WMI instance. To interact with the current computer, just create a WMI instance: use Oriceon\Wmi\Wmi; $wmi = new Wmi(); To interact ...

In a nutshell: The MIDI 2.0 standard was introduced in 2020, nearly 40 years after the original version. MIDI remains a crucial technology for musicians and music producers, and its utility on PCs is ...

Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away, and never has that been more true than with the latest version of Windows now rolling out to users’ PCs. Last month, the software giant began dispatching an ...