Installing Linux distributions using WSL is simple enough. The official Microsoft Store has plenty of distros to choose from, ...

Now that you've picked Linux Mint as your preferred distro, which desktop environment will you pick as your preferred edition ...

Meta is shutting down its Messenger app for macOS and Windows and pushing users to the web. Meta confirmed over email to Engadget that the app will be fully shutdown on December 15, after which the ...

Google has mostly shied away from making its own native desktop apps — even going so far as to require users to continue loading up a web browser to use tools like ...

Outside of Chrome, Drive, and Quick Share, Google rarely makes native desktop apps with everything usually being based in the browser. That’s changing today with a new experimental “Google app for ...

An upcoming Android update will significantly upgrade the Linux Terminal app, enabling it to run full-fledged graphical Linux programs on supported devices. The feature is currently experimental, ...

Windows 8 might have made waves for its short-lived removal of the beloved Start button, but the platform’s launch of an ill-fated storefront for streamlined app management was arguably Microsoft’s ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

Microsoft has announced that it's pulling the old Microsoft Remote Desktop tool that you could get in the Microsoft Store. The company is advising users to move over to the shiny new Windows App ...

The Remote Desktop app for Windows is (almost) dead; long live the Windows app. Microsoft said on Monday that its legacy Remote Desktop client, which has already been replaced on other platforms, will ...

If you need to “remote” in to a local PC while on vacation. there’s a new way to do it: the Windows App, which is replacing the Remote Desktop app within Windows. Microsoft’s Remote Desktop app is one ...

Microsoft announced that it will drop support for the Remote Desktop app (available via the Microsoft Store) on May 27 and replace it with its new Windows App. "Connections to Windows 365, Azure ...