Want Notepad to be like it was in the Windows XP era? Meet TinyRetroPad

Fed up with Microsoft bloating Notepad? An Ex-Microsoft engineer has shrunk it down to 2.5KB somehow.

Microsoft Once Paid $280M For Rigging Early Windows Against Competitors

Microsoft once attempted to sabotage MS-DOS competitor DR DOS, and it cost the company over a quarter billion dollars nearly three decades ago.
Reuters

First Windows PC powered by Nvidia chips to debut next week, Axios reports

May 30 (Reuters) - AI chip firm Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab and Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab are expected next week to debut the first Windows PCs that use Nvidia's chips ‌as the main ...
Digital Trends

Miss the old PC days? This website lets you experience Wikipedia like it’s Windows XP

Wikipedia has an unofficial new front door, and it looks like a desktop from a very specific era of family PCs, school labs, and chunky blue title bars. Developer Sami Smith has built a browser-based ...
PC Magazine

This Free Windows App Shows You Everything Your Computer Is Secretly Doing

I installed AppControl on my Windows 11 PC and was shocked by how much was happening in the background without me knowing. I've been writing about technology for more than 15 years and using it in ...
Android Police

I turned my $1,000 phone into a 1995 desktop computer with this quirky Android launcher

Tom has been covering technology since 2019, having worked as part of the phones team at TechRadar and then as an editor at What to Watch. Since 2025 he’s been a freelance contributor for many more ...
Forbes

‘Shutdown, Restart’—Microsoft Changes Windows To Ease PC Users’ Frustrations

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. All change for your PC. Microsoft has now confirmed major changes to the way in which ...
ZDNet

Microsoft's latest Windows update now confirms if your PC is Secure Boot-protected - how it works

Windows will now tell you if Secure Boot is working properly. The new status indicates whether you have the latest Secure Boot updates. The April Windows update also patches a whopping 164 security ...
Wired

Use Microsoft PC Manager to Speed Up Your Windows 11 Computer

Can you really get a Windows PC running like new again? Using this free tool from Microsoft, you can get pretty close. Microsoft Windows has been with us for more than 40 years at this point. Over ...
TechSpot

The Windows XP Bliss wallpaper still exists, and it briefly looks the same again

Nostalgic XP: Once a stock photo sold to a licensing agency, the "Bliss" wallpaper became a computer sensation thanks to Microsoft and Windows XP's resounding popularity. The natural environment looks ...
Computerworld

The Windows PC is dying, thanks to cloud-based services and AI

The rise of AI tools and services has added a new twist to the decline and fall of standalone Windows PCs. For years, I’ve been watching the slow evolution of classic Windows PCs into cloud-based ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft: Windows update blocks access to Cloud PC sessions

Microsoft confirmed that a recent Windows update is blocking customers from accessing their Microsoft 365 Cloud PC sessions. Windows 365 is a cloud-based service that runs on Azure Virtual Desktop and ...