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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the past few months -- really, since the day Windows 8 and Windows RT became commercially available in late October 2012 -- there have been lots of attempts to calculate how it's really selling.

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 ...