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 ...

Summary: The Windows services file, located in c windows\system32\drivers\etc, lists service names and port numbers. If another program uses the same port number as a service that's listed in the ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft has launched a new app specifically for the Chinese market called Nearby Numbers for ...

There are various reasons you might want to find your laptop or computer’s serial number. Some schools ask that you register your laptop for academic use. Workplaces often do the same thing. You may ...

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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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While some may say we have too many puzzle games in the Windows Phone Store, they remain a great ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is one of those great games about what numbers actually mean: or rather, being careful about understanding the limitations of the numbers that are being offered to us. For example, Microsoft has ...

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 ...