Windows continues to be the most widely used operating system in the world, powering over a billion devices from personal ...

Windows 10 has a complicated legacy that's undermined by the enshittification that Microsoft built into this product and then ...

The classic Windows user interface helps users to work very productively but when it comes to touchscreen computers or when less-experienced people work with Windows, the deficits of the UI turn out ...

An expert on user interface design has called Windows 8 “disappointing” for novices and power users alike. Jakob Nielsen, principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, studied how a dozen experienced ...

If you press the key combination Alt-Shift-Esc or right-click an empty area in the taskbar, you can launch the Task Manager utility quickly and easily. Figure 1 shows the right-click pop-up menu in ...

It is the statement that has re-ignited the near-religious debate about whether the Windows user interface was copied from Mac. Define ‘copied’. Adopting features that work is not new to ...

Plummer says he wrote the Format dialog in late 1994, when the team was busy porting the user interface from the consumer-focused Windows 95 (released in mid-1995) to the more-stable but more ...