If you see the Windows closing 1 app and shutting down message when trying to shut down your Windows 11/10 computer, the simplest thing to do is to wait for maybe 10-15 seconds and then select the ...

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 ...

Windows 1.0 didn't exactly blow the industry away, but it laid the groundwork for Microsoft's future success.

Surround sound through headphones, known as spatial audio, is a hot topic in the audio world. But there isn’t a singular implementation of this idea. Microsoft’s entry in the field is Windows Sonic ...

Depending on how you count them, there have been 15 major versions of Windows, with Microsoft's inconsistent naming scheme resulting in the current version of Windows being Windows 11—go figure. A lot ...

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...