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Charles O’Rear, the photographer behind the iconic Windows XP ‘Bliss’ wallpaper, has expressed mixed feelings about the deal that made his image one of the most viewed ever. In 1996, while visiting ...

Windows puts widgets into a dedicated area ... What if you just want a few simple pieces of information to show up over your wallpaper? A free application called BeWidgets lets you do just that.

This year, Microsoft turns 50, a significant waypoint in the valley of anguish that is Gen X middle age. In comparison, Generation Z Google (aged 26 and a half) is in the prime era of its ...

Microsoft recently announced that it will no longer support the Windows 10 operating system after Oct. 14. Users who are still using Windows 10 began receiving email warnings this month.

Microsoft published the wallpapers on X/Twitter and wrote: “50 years of innovation, memories and moments that have shaped us. To celebrate this, we are providing you with some nostalgic wallpapers.

Microsoft has started testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine learning (ML) to detect tech support scams.

Microsoft announced 10,000 job cuts in January 2023, two years ago, as part of a broader pattern of cost-cutting in the tech industry at the time. That represented about 5% of the company’s ...

Microsoft has many good ideas for Windows 11 that often do not ship, and one of them was "Dynamic Wallpapers," which, as the name suggests, could have made the wallpaper dynamic, similar to third ...

In context: Nearly every major operating system comes with sleek live wallpapers. iOS has them, Android does too, and so does macOS. Microsoft had been working on a similar feature for Windows 11 ...

As Windows Central’s Zac Bowden tells us, dynamic wallpapers have been spotted in preview builds of Windows 11 in the past, and Bowden believes they were supposed to be introduced with Windows ...

But the first steps into the AI era have been shaky. Security and privacy questions delayed Microsoft’s efforts to give Windows a photographic memory with the new “Recall” feature, requiring ...