Windows went on sale 40 years ago. Here's the whole history of the operating system, from Windows 1 to 11 and everything in between.

At Ignite, Microsoft said software is 'evolving from being made for people to being made by people.' Attendees I spoke with ...

The Apple ecosystem may be designed to provide streamlined experiences, but these open-source apps show there are other options for the features you want.

When a robot screws up, Amazon pushes a software patch at 3 a.m. and the million-plus fleet gets smarter overnight. When Dave screws up, you get a performance-improvement plan and Dave gets resentful.

The longevity of Jobs’ 10-minute design session suggests the approach worked. The calculator survived nearly two decades of Mac OS updates, outlasting many more elaborate interface elements. What ...

Engineers are still struggling with basics like giving robots hands that don’t crush everything they touch, or making bodies that don’t fall over when they pick up a box.

The latest Windows 11 Task Manager icon takes Microsoft's modern amorphous blob aesthetic to its (il)logical limit.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is fending off criticism from his own base as some of the environmental and ...

USB flash drives aren't the juggernauts they once were in computing, but that doesn't stop me from carrying one around even ...

Tributes poured in after his death was announced on November 6: the FIA called him “pioneering”; Mark Hughes dubbed him the ...

It's happened to you countless times: You're waiting for a website to load, only to see a box with a little mountain range where an image should be. It's the placeholder icon for a “missing image.” ...

Ever wonder why a mountain icon appears when images won't load? Discover the fascinating history behind the internet's most ...