Explore the untapped potential of built-in Windows tools that rival their third-party counterparts.

At the risk of going into old-man-yells-at-cloud mode, I remember when Notepad was the most basic text editor around. Some coders and writers liked the program—which comes included in every single ...

When you unbox a new Windows computer, you know more or less what you're going to get. You'll get a version of the Windows operating system and a browser. You'll also ...

Windows is, by and large, pretty good. There’s a reason it’s remained the number one PC operating system for decades, and it isn’t because Microsoft beat the crap out of the industry with cutthroat ...

The Windows 10 world is still reeling from the news that Microsoft has finally extended the end-of-life deadline from October 2025 by a further 12-months, subject to that $30 stipend of course. But it ...

Every so often, I start to do something on a computer and have to stop myself to say: “That’s not a good idea.” Fortunately, it’s all I need to prevent myself from doing something I shouldn’t that ...

I'm planning to get my daughter a Windows gaming laptop for Christmas this year. Great, right? Except: We're an all Apple household. It's not that I'm incapable of using Windows, but most of my ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft has made it abundantly clear that WordPad is slated for retirement. A newly published document outlines a specific timeline for the discontinuation of the longstanding ...