Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to ge…

"The truly funny thing about this color scheme is that all the other Windows 3.1 color schemes are surprisingly rational, ...

Looks like the Run dialog box is getting a sleek new look on Windows 11

Maybe I just fit a very particular demographic, but nothing signals Windows 10's true end-of-life (EOL) more than the fact ...

Windows 11 Urgent Warning: Microsoft Confirms New Update Is Causing Annoying Issues

A new Windows update has arrived but while there are positive features, many users have noticed serious issues as well.

How to find and remove viruses on your Windows PC - 12 free methods that I can attest to

Fortunately, there's an excellent online tool called VirusTotal that can help. It's a website that scans and analyzes ...

Even Microsoft’s retro holiday sweaters are having Copilot forced upon them

Sometimes it feels like Microsoft is set on pushing Copilot into flagship products like Windows, Office, and the Edge browser ...
The Conversation

Why two tiny mountain peaks became one of the internet’s most famous images

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.” ...
Neowin

Internet Download Manager (IDM) 6.42 Build 52

Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume ...
CNN

The internet just had another global outage. Why does this keep happening?

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable. From banking services ...