A former Windows developer reveals why Windows was dragging around 30 MB of completely useless data for many years. The data ...

Bob resurfaced from Microsoft's Graveyard to pad out the 30MB of free space in Windows XP, keeping pirates at bay.

The Mac slowly chipped away at Windows' global market share, though Apple still has just 25% of the overall desktop market.

Founded in 1986 and staffed by a team of six, the Microsoft Archives preserve nearly 135,000 physical artifacts, 170,000 digital records, and half a petabyte of digitized video content.

The model built by Bill Gates and Paul Allen remains decades later. What’s changed is how Microsoft responds to a flop.

Providing ubiquitous desktop software for decades, Microsoft has come in for jibes, mockery and even loathing even as it has helped millions of people get things done. - 'Helpful' Clippy - Long before ...

From a New Mexico startup to the "lost decade" and now an admired prominence, Microsoft put the Seattle region on the Big Tech map, Jon Talton writes.

Suikoden 2's one of the most recent games to receive this treatment, and it's been one heck of a roller coaster ride for ...

Microsoft is refocusing its development efforts and iterating faster than before. At the company's 50th Anniversary Event, I ...

In 1975, a few nerds formed a company to sell programming tools to other nerds. So how did Microsoft go on to become a ...