Microsoft says that it is making major changes to the Windows Insider program that will help guide how things work after the launch. Here's what's happening.

In the latest episode of Windows Weekly, Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley and I discuss Microsoft's massive new reorg, major changes for Xbox One, and more.

Here are some more answers about how the Windows 10 upgrade will work, especially for people who want to perform a clean install of the operating system.

Looking at this week's Google I/O announcements, it's hard to miss the ways in which Google is undercutting Microsoft's mobile efforts.

I’ve now installed Windows 10 Insider Preview build 10122 on my main desktop PC and my Surface Pro 3, among other devices physical and virtual. And having now actually gotten real work done in this build, I feel like I have an understanding of where we’re at as Windows 10 barrels towards completion. It’s mostly…

With Microsoft shipping a new build of Windows 10 Insider Preview for phones yesterday—or what we might call Windows 10 Mobile build 10080—I set out to install it on multiple devices. The process went much more smoothly than with some earlier builds, but it’s just as rough and buggy as ever. Long story short, if…

Now that my review of Surface 3 is complete, I can turn my attention to the future of this device and start using it for Windows 10 testing. First up: installing Windows 10 Technical Preview 2 and then upgrading to the latest build. I could dual-boot Windows 10 on this system. But that could require…

If you’re testing Windows 10 in the Fast Ring—or “really testing Windows 10,” as I think of it—build 10061 is a real milestone of sorts. No, it doesn’t completely address the questions I raised about the viability of this system on tablets and other touch-first devices. But this is the first build to suggest that…

HP’s stunning new Spectre x360 is a near-perfect transforming Ultrabook, blending premium materials and solid build quality with a far more thoughtful approach to the software preload than we typically see with Windows PCs. Yes, it’s a bit thicker and heavier than less versatile PCs, but Spectre also manages to cost less than other premium…

It’s not news that Surface 3 can run desktop applications, unlike its Windows RT-based predecessors. But the tablet’s Atom processor raises some obvious and understandable questions. Sure, Surface 3 will run desktop applications. But how well will it run desktop applications? While it’s hard to point to one thing that puts Surface 3 over the…

There are Ultrabooks … and then there are Ultrabooks. Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon lands in a hallowed category within which there are few other entries. It is astonishingly light and durable, with a stunning 14-inch screen, and, in the variant I am reviewing, it features a new PCIe-based SSD that should speed performance even higher.…

Digging around through my old gadgets this week I found a few interesting and semi-historical hardware devices. The original iPhone. A Palm Treo running Windows Mobile 6 Pro. The original Windows 8 Slate. But none triggered the same reaction as the Windows Phone prototype handset that I used throughout summer 2010 before Windows Phone first…

This is one of those things that should be easier than it is, and in investigating how one might dual-boot Windows 10 on Surface Pro 3—rather than blow away a perfectly good Windows 8.1 install—I uncovered a number of strange issues. But the good news is, it can be done, and even done easily once…

In the two months since we launched Thurrott.com, I’ve been somewhat consumed by the need to get the site up to speed, and stocked with new and relevant content. That job will never be done, of course, but I think it’s time for me to also give a bit of attention to the Field Guide…

If you were hoping to clean install Windows 10 build 10041, well, you can’t. Unfortunately, the only way to obtain this latest build is to install a previous build first. And even then you need to make a key configuration change to get the new build as soon as possible. Here’s how. It’s like the…

During its Mobile World Congress press conference Monday morning in Barcelona, Microsoft showed off a few features in Windows 10 for Mobile for the first time. There’s nothing unexpected here, but it’s always interesting to see things we’ve heard about actually working for a change. It’s not clear yet when Microsoft will release a second…