Bill Gates handed over the reins of Microsoft (MSFT-0.16%) to Steve Ballmer in early 2000. Gates had built the software business into the world's largest company by market cap, perhaps with a little ...

Microsoft reportedly had plans for a Surface-branded Windows Phone years before the Surface Duo, with a 2013-2014 prototype recently revealed. The mysterious phone featured a 720p display, physical ...

If you build apps on a cloud database, you know the friction. To develop and test locally, you either point your app at a shared cloud instance, with slow round trips, noisy neighbors, and ...

You can install [!INCLUDE [ssNoVersion](../../includes/ssnoversion-md.md)] on a Server Core installation. The Server Core installation option provides a minimal ...

When my friend and Directions on Microsoft‘s editor-in-chief Mary Jo Foley wrote in late May that Azure Linux 4.0 would be available for bare-metal servers and virtual machines (VMs), I thought, “I’m ...

He has loved computers since he got the Lenovo G570 in 2012. Abhishek holds a master's degree in computer applications and began his writing career in 2018. He loves writing how-to articles, listicles ...

While Microsoft sweeps the confetti off the floor of its Build event, it may be a good moment to reflect on what it didn't say as much as what it did. Taking the spotlight was AI agent Scout, ready to ...

Update: Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to address this issue on April 20. Microsoft is investigating an issue causing this month's KB5082063 security update to fail to install on some ...

Windows 11 users who tried to install March's broken preview update will want to grab the new replacement. Microsoft has a bad habit of rolling out Windows 11 updates that prove to be problematic, ...

Microsoft pulls a faulty Windows 11 update after installation errors leave users unable to install it, prompting a paused rollout and pending fix. Image: Rudzhan/Adobe Another Windows update has ...

This week, Microsoft released a new Windows 11 preview build, dubbed KB5079391, but it's also had to pause the rollout due to an installation error with a currently ...

Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...