In 1990, Windows 3.0 sold at a then-blistering rate: four million copies in just one year.
Microsoft: 100 Million Windows 8 Licenses Sold, Windows Blue This Year
New stats on how Windows is doing tell us only so much.
Adobe Says Goodbye to Its Suite. Is Microsoft Next?
The creative-software giant says all its new features will be part of Creative Cloud, its pay-as-you-go service.
I Hope I’m Wrong About Small Windows 8 Tablets
How will cramming full-blown Windows 8 onto even smaller screens help Microsoft’s tablet initiative?
eBay’s $35 Million Mess
The Business Insider reports on eBay’s two most successful affiliate partners, and why both ended up pleading guilty to wire fraud.
Barnes & Noble Puts Google’s Play Store and Apps on the Nook
The walled garden around the venerable bookseller’s reading-centric tablets is coming down.
Lost Your Facebook Password? Get Back In with a Little Help from Your Friends
Facebook’s Trusted Contacts feature lets you specify friends who can participate in the password-recovery process.
Tiny Toon: IBM Makes a Movie Out of Atoms
Big Blue’s researchers have set a Guinness record with their new cartoon — every pixel’s an atom.
Living History: Computing Pioneer Harry Huskey Is Honored at 97
The Computer History Museum honors a distinguished scientist who worked on the first computer, and just kept going.
Jawbone’s Fitness Future: A Platform and an Acquistion
The Bluetooth audio maker is letting other apps and services talk to its Up band, and adding BodyMedia’s products to the lineup.
Handle Tries a Task-Based Approach to Taming E-Mail Chaos
A new web service aims to complement Gmail with one-click tools for dealing with the messages — important or otherwise — which fill your inbox to the bursting point.
New Windows Phone Ad: iPhone and Galaxy Fans, You’re All Idiots
Microsoft’s ad doesn’t actually explain why you want to buy a Windows Phone, but it is funny.