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Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview build 19546 to Insiders in the Fast ring, and it has one new feature.

Microsoft is touting some new education-focused Always Connected PCs ahead of the BETT UK 2020 conference.

Microsoft has finally released a pre-release version of its new Edge browser that works natively in Windows 10 on ARM.

Microsoft today updated an early December build of Windows 10 and released it to the Slow Ring.

OK, it was modest, but PC sales still grew in 2019. Here’s a look at what happened and at how things will change in the future.

PC makers sold 264 million units in 2019, according to data collected by Gartner and IDC, a gain of 1.9 percent year-over-year.

Today, we implement the Replace, Replace All, and Go To commands, improve the fit and finish, and change the application name.

In this quick sidetrack, I make a few changes in anticipation of the final branding of our Notepad clone. NotepadWF isn’t going to cut it.

Microsoft is deprecating its Windows Store for Business and Windows Store for Education, another major step back from its original app store strategy.

A reader has graciously pointed me in the right direction towards solving some of the more vexing issues with this project.

There’s a new Windows 10 Insider Preview build available for testers in the Fast ring, so there’s no way to know if any of this is real.

Lenovo introduces the "world's first foldable PC", co-engineered with Intel, coming sometime in mid-2020 for $2,499 with Windows 10 Pro.

I’ve been writing about Windows for over 25 years, and it has never been less relevant or less well-cared-for by its maker.

With CES getting underway in Las Vegas, Acer has announced new PC portables, desktops, workstations, and displays.

Originally called COOL, for C++ Object-Oriented Language, this new language would very closely resemble Java.

Samsung isn’t the only PC maker preempting CES: Dell has announced a thinner new version of its XPS 13 laptop today as well.

In a bid to steal some thunder from rival PC makers, Samsung has announced a new Galaxy Book Flex ahead of CES.

Our quick and dirty Auto Save functionality was perhaps a bit too quick and too dirty. So here are some improvements.

As I struggle to duplicate some of Notepad’s more complex features, I was reminded that Notepad itself has changed a lot over the years.

As I continue to put off the really hard bits, here’s how to change the icon and add a quick and dirty auto-save feature.

Anders Hejlsberg has been doing the impossible since his first foray into programming language and compiler design in 1980.

This time, we’re going to clean up some code, fix some bugs, and see whether a context menu can improve the app.

Adobe is bringing one of its core photography apps to the Microsoft Store in Windows 10. The company seems to have quietly released Adobe Lightroom on the Microsoft Store this week.

Microsoft is bringing Bing's Visual Search feature to more places in Windows 10 -- it's now integrated into the Search bar in Windows.

2019 was a confusing year for apps. UWP was declared dead. PWAs didn’t take off, again. And Mac Catalyst landed with a thud.

Microsoft can’t get rid of the “legacy” version of its Edge browser quickly enough. It’s like it never happened.

Thanks to a new pre-release feature, you can now make and receive phone calls from the Windows 10 Your Phone app.