
Right now, I’ve got twelve open programs on my Windows 11 taskbar, plus four more pinned apps—and even on my ultrawide monitor, they’re taking up a lot of screen real estate. On my laptop, I have to be a lot more conservative with my apps. But a new feature might fix that by automatically making taskbar icons smaller as necessary.

Mozilla’s open-source email client, Thunderbird, plans to start offering users their own personalized @thundermail.com email addresses through a new Thunderbird Pro service, reports The Verge.
The service will offer more than just email, at least fo

Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week, and it’s offering some new Windows wallpapers to mark the occasion.
Over on Microsoft’s Windows blog, Microsoft has published a basket of different wallpapers for Windows PCs, which you can download he

If you haven’t heard, Windows 10 is coming to an end on October 14, 2025. Well, sort of. You’ll still be able to use your Windows 10 PC even after that date, but Microsoft won’t be supporting it anymore—no more updates, no more security patches, no more help if things go awry.
We don’t recommend sticking with Windows 10 without support, and neither does Mic

Comparing the Nintendo Switch 2 to the Steam Deck is dumb. I said that already, and I stand by it. But as people all over the world watch price tags climb,

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time?
If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 from Windows 95, say, you certainly had a favorite Windows OS that you grew up with, cherished, and then fumed when Microsoft replaced it with something differe

Microsoft has arguably done more to shape the evolution of the PC than any other company.
This week, Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary on April 4, 2025. Fifty years is a long time for anyone, let alone a company which has driven itself to move at the pace of the computer, than the Internet, and now AI. That’s decades of decisions, of launc

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“The coolest code I’ve ever written.” With these words, Bill Gates introduces a blog post that celebrates Microsoft’s 50th anniversary by looking back on how the company