The model built by Bill Gates and Paul Allen remains decades later. What’s changed is how Microsoft responds to a flop.

Covering one company so tenaciously for so long is not common in tech journalism. What keeps me coming back is Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft celebrates its fiftieth anniversary on April 4, 2025. How did it get here? We've picked 25 moments that shaped ...

The company helped launch the software industry and bring a computer to every desktop. Hit products like Windows and the Xbox ...

Microsoft’s subscription-based office suite, called Microsoft 365 or ... Learn how to use Word 2010’s Navigation pane, image editing tools, text effects and other new features.

Rather than pay $10 monthly for Microsoft 365, many users are grabbing a Microsoft Office lifetime license for a one-time $49 ...

Pocket computers. Sort-of smartwatches. Motion-sensing game controllers. None of these big ideas are as memorable as Windows or Office, but we think they're standouts in Microsoft's 50-year history.

What’s the significance of Microsoft in modern business and tech history? For the past several months, in the course of ...

Microsoft has a ton of different apps, but getting them all individually can get pretty expensive. If you want a simpler ...

It's been 20 years since the debut of NBC's hit mockumentary sitcom The Office. To celebrate the anniversary, we're listening back to Terry Gross' archival interviews with some of the key players: ...

Former Lakeside School students Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Micro-Soft, a portmanteau of microcomputer and software, in ...

On the 50th anniversary of Microsoft, we look back at the five most iconic apps, that made the company what it is today.