Charles ‘Chuck’ O'Rear photographed a field in California - an image that would become world-famous thanks to Microsoft ...

The world’s most viewed image in history is probably something that you’ve seen (I’m 100% sure) but you probably have never ...

Covering one company so tenaciously for so long is not common in tech journalism. What keeps me coming back is Microsoft’s constant ability to try new things. I’ve been doing this for so long that ...

For each, you’ll find a bit of background ... Windows Phone 8. On Feb. 4, Satya Nadella officially took over as the third chief executive of Microsoft, taking the reins from Steve Ballmer. (Bill ...

Founded in 1986 and staffed by a team of six, the Microsoft Archives preserve nearly 135,000 physical artifacts, 170,000 digital records, and half a petabyte of digitized video content.

O’Rear’s shot eventually became the iconic background used by Microsoft in Windows XP. The company acquired the rights to the image after the Corbis group, owned by Bill Gates, bought the ...

A shot that has become legendary, almost cult: that of the green hill under a blue sky dotted with clouds, used by default as the desktop background on Windows XP. An image called "Bliss," which ...