Charlie Petzold was one of the pioneer Windows development writers, along with Paul Yao and a few others. I didn't write my first Windows development book until 1992, and by then Charlie's books were ...

Microsoft’s future is three-dimensional. Up to now, we’ve seen the company embrace the notion in dribs and drabs, through the HoloLens and its work with Minecraft. But earlier this week, at an event ...

Q. Until recently, when I wanted to view an image in my Pictures folder, I would right-click on the file I wanted to view and select "Open" from the menu that appeared, and the image would appear ...

A mere day after its announcement, you can already test the newest, 3D-obsessed generation of Microsoft Paint—if you’re a Windows Insider, that is. Paint 3D Preview is now available for download for ...

Microsoft has a major Windows 10 update scheduled for early 2017, the company revealed at an announcement in New York City on Wednesday. The Creators Update, as Microsoft has dubbed it, is set to be ...

Microsoft announced that the Paint 3D graphics app will be discontinued later this year and removed from the Microsoft Store in November. The 3D graphics program was first unveiled as a replacement ...

Microsoft has announced the latest version of its Rust for Windows project, version 0.9. Rust for Windows is a language projection for Windows, and lets developers use any Windows API via the windows ...

Way back when: People used screensavers to prevent "burn-in" on CRT monitors, where static images could permanently damage the screen. Screensavers like 3D Pipes animated the display during inactivity ...

In October, Microsoft unveiled Paint 3D, a modern Universal Windows Platform app intended as a replacement for the less-than-modern Paint application that shipped with older versions of Windows. The ...