Four years after releasing the Windows 10 Creators Update with an emphasis on new content creation features, Microsoft is making a few of those features optional. Both applications seemed like ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

iSynth (iTunes Link) is a new application that brings Microsoft’s impressive Photosynth 3D photo viewer to the iPhone. Photosynth stitches together user-submitted photos of the same subject, allowing ...

Paint 3D was going to replace Paint at one point, and now it’s being deprecated. Paint 3D was going to replace Paint at one point, and now it’s being deprecated. is a senior editor and author of ...

Microsoft Paint is finally testing background removal, the killer feature of Microsoft’s Paint 3D that we hoped they’d save. And they finally have! In 2021, Microsoft pulled Paint 3D from Windows, ...

Microsoft installs a number of apps by default with a fresh copy of Windows 10, many of which you'll probably never use. Thankfully, two such apps are set to disappear from that list. As the Windows ...