Microsoft's spreadsheet program can do way more than you might imagine. These are the hacks and tricks you need to know.

Let's go back in time to an era of personal computing, where dial-up internet was cutting-edge and desktop monitors were enormous. Specifically, let's jump to April 6, 1992, the day Microsoft released ...

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 ...

Every so often, a wonderful thing happens: someone young enough to have missed out on using computers in the early 1990s is introduced to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" color scheme. Back in the day ...

TL;DR: Windows 11's File Explorer remains slower than Windows 10 despite a fix that preloads the app at startup, doubling its RAM usage without significantly improving speed. The slower performance ...

Microsoft has issued a small bug-fixing update for PowerToys 0.96. Version 0.96.1 is here to fix a missing module on Windows 10, resolve bugs in Advanced Paste, and fix issues with the Awake module.

Preloading will help File Explorer launch more quickly on less powerful hardware. Preloading will help File Explorer launch more quickly on less powerful hardware. is a senior editor and author of ...

Ever wondered what owning a computer in the 1980s was like? Outside of nostalgia, it wasn’t the best. Until 1984, unless you were in some kind of strange lab or university, nearly everything was ...

Update 10/17/25: Microsoft fixes the bug using a KIR (Known Issue Rollback) update. More information added to end of story. Microsoft's October Windows 11 updates have broken the "localhost" ...

Rumors say Google will release Gemini 3.0 on October 22, as the next-generation frontier AI model has been in testing for a while. It's unclear what Gemini 3.0 will have to offer, but it's easy to ...

In the 9 1/2 months since President Trump returned to the White House and FCC leadership transitioned from Jessica Rosenworcel to Brendan Carr, forces behind the transition to ATSC 3.0-powered NEXTGEN ...