Belatedly answering my call, Microsoft today has finally made Windows 10 S available for testing to Insiders.

We're currently using multiple music services and speaker systems, and that has to change. So as part of our move to a new home, I'll be consolidating both. My goals here match up nicely with what I wrote in And It Just Doesn’t Work back in early July. I want to minimize complexity and maximize…

Microsoft last night admitted that it cannot update certain Intel Atom-based PCs to the Windows 10 Creators Update. In doing so, it proves that Windows as a Service (Waas) is unsustainable. I wrote about the underlying issue of this particular event earlier this week in Users with Older Atom Processors Should Wait on the Windows…

As you may know, we're moving to Pennsylvania next month, and I'm using this change as an excuse to re-evaluate the personal technology we use at home. And hopefully get some of it right for a change. The most fundamental technology, of course, is the Internet connection. I was led to believe---and was excited by…

Ten years ago this summer, I wrote what can only be described as the most accurate, honest, and, yes, epic review of Apple's first iPhone.

My first book was about Visual Basic 3, and I later updated it for two other product versions, VB 4 and VB 6. Here's a look back at those early days.

20 years ago, I was heavily invested in Microsoft's developer stack. Here's my 1997 overview of Visual InterDev 1.0, which was included in the first version of Visual Studio.

Today: Thurrott.com is going to Africa, Xbox Insiders Program will have four rings (probably), Norway v. Windows phone, All new Chromebooks will run Android apps, more.

In the coming months, Microsoft will deliver its third major update to Windows 10. It's called the Creators Update, it's going to be a massive upgrade.

Today, you can buy music, movies and TV shows from the Windows Store, and Microsoft is adding e-books this year. But is Microsoft a trustworthy content provider? This is perhaps a more complex question than is immediately obvious. Consider the news this week that Microsoft is finally bringing e-books to Windows Store with the Windows…

I've often described Android as the new Windows, and that's true on so many levels. But one of the more overlooked ways in which Android is just like Windows is in its various market defeats: Google just can't seem to make Android successful beyond its core market. Like Windows on the PC, Android controls roughly…

Nokia will formally re-enter the smartphone market in early 2017 with a family of Android-based handsets. But make no mistake: This is not the Nokia of old. More important, had Nokia chosen Android over Windows phone in 2011, it would have failed even faster than it did. So let's get that bit of revisionist nonsense out…

Windows 10 Version 1703 is still very much a mystery. But this article will collect the new features as we discover them and expand over time into a complete look at what's new.

With two major changes to the Windows 7 and 8.1 servicing process in 2016, the question remains: Has Microsoft finally fixed this terrible problem?

A new report finally shines some light on what we can expect from Microsoft hardware this fall. And it looks like a long-rumored Surface All-In-One may be making its first appearance.

Microsoft has steadily improved its once-lackluster Groove apps across multiple platforms this year. And now it's done so on Xbox One, too, bringing a new user experience and background audio playback to its flagship console.