is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has always tried to pick special numbers with meaning for the release to ...

Microsoft this morning announced that Windows 7 has reached 350 million licenses sold in 18 months on the market. It’s an impressive number on the surface, but absent any other context it’s hard to ...

Long-term shifts in the installed base for Windows PCs are nothing new. For decades, businesses have been dealing with the logistics and the costs of migrating from one Windows version to another. As ...

Computex is a hardware show, but Microsoft was there to promote Windows as a platform, including recent developments like Windows with Bing, Windows 8.1 Update, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows universal ...

One year after the Windows Phone 7 developer tools were released, Microsoft cites numbers to show the popularity of the OS with developers. But the numbers are selective and hint at a more complex ...

The dramatic plunge in Windows XP's market share has continued in the latest numbers from Netmarketshare, released today (Monday). These show Windows XP dropping another 3.6 percentage points from ...

There's a lot of angst about the 30 percent of Windows users who haven't switched, but how many PCs does that actually mean? The simple fact is that we don’t know — don’t even have a clue — about the ...