Microsoft wants you to use the cloud, but there are a lot of good options — including trusty old network file sharing and a little-known modern Windows feature. Remember the HomeGroup on Windows 7?

Transferring files between PCs can feel laborious, especially when you have only just a few small ones to deal with. A lot of people still hunt for a USB drive to put the documents on—or upload them ...

Google’s Nearby Share feature debuted on Android phones and tablets as a way to quickly send files and apps from one Android device to another. Eventually Google brought Nearby Share to Chromebooks as ...

Unveiled back in 2020, Google's Nearby Share provided a way for people to share files between different Android devices. Now, the company is enhancing the feature to include Windows in the mix. In a ...

Windows Phone Link and Link to Windows iOS apps get an update. If you’re using an iPhone with a Windows PC as your main computer, there’s some good news: Microsoft is making file sharing between the ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

There are many ways to transfer files between your smartphone and Windows PC, but they are often clunky and require using cloud services like OneDrive or Google Drive. To make things easier, Google ...

The Link to Windows app has been updated to support showing your Windows PCs on the Android share sheet. With this update, you no longer need to open the “send to PC” menu before sending a file to one ...