Windows 11 continues slog up the Windows 10 mountain
Almost three years on and many customers have yet to make the move
OSes02 Sep 2024 | 100
Windows
Microsoft decides it's a good time for bad UI to die
Opinion Set the Control Panel for the heart of the Sun
OSes02 Sep 2024 | 197
Ex-Windows boss who tried to save the Start Menu now Shopify tech wizard
Time to make e-commerce great again instead?
Personal Tech29 Aug 2024 | 7
The Windows Control Panel joins the ranks of the undead
As users wail, Microsoft tweaks its text to drop the word 'deprecated'
OSes27 Aug 2024 | 45
Microsoft rolls out one Teams app to rule them all
That annoying requirement to switch between home and work accounts has finally gone
Applications21 Aug 2024 | 37
Microsoft closes Windows 11 upgrade loophole in latest Insider build
Pretending you're a server won't stop the hardware police
Personal Tech19 Aug 2024 | 57
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Microsoft tweaks fine print to warn everyone not to take its AI seriously
Don't use LLMs for anything important and don't try to reverse engineer it
Software14 Aug 2024 | 25
Your victim's Windows PC fully patched? Just force undo its updates and exploit away
Black Hat This guy showed the world how – with the right level of access
Black Hat and DEF CON08 Aug 2024 | 8
Bad apps bypass Windows security alerts for six years using newly unveiled trick
Windows SmartScreen and Smart App Control both have weaknesses of which to be wary
Research06 Aug 2024 | 16
Microsoft's results are in, but the E7 subscription remains mythical. For now
Comment Does the Windows giant's love of 365 add-ons spell doom for a super premium tier?
PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2024 | 13
Microsoft whiz dishes the dirt on the Blue Screen Of Death's colorful past
CrowdStrike reminded the public that BSODs still exist. Their origins go back decades
OSes02 Aug 2024 | 38
Microsoft finds a new way to irritate Windows 11 users – a backup pop-up
Ads in the Start Menu not annoying enough for you? Hold my beer
OSes29 Jul 2024 | 84
The port of the Windows 95 Start Menu was not all it seemed
Fnding your code on the cutting room floor decades after the event
OSes29 Jul 2024 | 25
Post-CrowdStrike, Microsoft to discourage use of kernel drivers by security tools
Updated Now there's an idea – parsing config data in user mode
OSes29 Jul 2024 | 49
CrowdStrike meets Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will
Opinion And boy, did last Friday's Windows fiasco ever prove that yet again
Patches26 Jul 2024 | 98
Windows Patch Tuesday update might send a user to the BitLocker recovery screen
Not now, Microsoft
Patches24 Jul 2024 | 44
How did a CrowdStrike file crash millions of Windows computers? We take a closer look at the code
Analysis Maybe next time some staged rollouts? A bit of QA too?
CSO23 Jul 2024 | 119
Administrators have update lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage
How could this happen to us? We were supposed to be two versions behind?
Security23 Jul 2024 | 34
CrowdStrike CEO summoned to explain epic fail to US Homeland Security committee
Boss faces grilling before Congress over disastrous software snafu
Software23 Jul 2024 | 50
EU gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, claims Microsoft
Was a 2009 agreement on interoperability to blame?
Security22 Jul 2024 | 220
CrowdStrike Windows patchpocalypse could take weeks to fix, IT admins fear
Kettle Our vultures gather to review this very freaky Friday
CSO19 Jul 2024 | 75
Life, interrupted: How CrowdStrike's patch failure is messing up the world
Oh, was it supposed to be Y2K24?
Software19 Jul 2024 | 116
Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience
CrowdStrike? More like ClownStrike! Amirite?
Software19 Jul 2024 | 265
Azure VMs ruined by CrowdStrike patchpocalypse? Microsoft has recovery tips
Updated Have you tried turning it off and on again, like, a bunch?
PaaS + IaaS19 Jul 2024 | 65
Porting the Windows 95 Start Menu to NT
Updated Running with coordinate transformations and the pitfalls of asynchronous code
Offbeat17 Jul 2024 | 36
Windows NT on a whole new platform: PowerMac
Got a G3 iMac? Want to run NT? Now you can!
Personal Tech17 Jul 2024 | 46
Microsoft to intro checkpoint cumulative updates for Win 11
The mission? To spend less time in patch purgatory
OSes16 Jul 2024 | 12
PowerToys bring fun tweaks to Windows 10 and 11
Friday FOSS Fest Mac migrants (if any exist) will find Powertoys Run strangely familiar
OSes12 Jul 2024 | 39
Windows Notepad gets spell check. Only took 41 years
Purists needn't worry – you can turn it off
Applications08 Jul 2024 | 34
Copilot+ PCs software compatibility issues left to you to sort out, with help from crowdsourcers
Samsung warned users, but the PC industry’s big players hardly mention the possibility of problems
Personal Tech08 Jul 2024 | 31
Windows: Insecure by design
Opinion Get your hands off my computer, Microsoft!
OSes28 Jun 2024 | 214
How many Microsoft missteps were forks that were just a bit of fun?
Raymond Chen on cutting loose with a copy of the code
Offbeat27 Jun 2024 | 22
The origin of 3D Pipes, Windows' best screensaver
Archaeologic Raymond Chen talks teapots, and a fully engaged marketing team
Personal Tech13 Jun 2024 | 54
Microsoft sends Copilot Pro's GPT Builder to the digital dumpster
Updated Farewell, we hardly scripted thee
AI + ML11 Jun 2024 | 7
Disenchanted Windows user? Pop open a fresh can of Linux Lite
Version 7.0 has landed – the Ubuntu Noble based one
OSes10 Jun 2024 | 78
Microsoft shows venerable and vulnerable NTLM security protocol the door
Time to get moving if you still rely on this deprecated feature
Security06 Jun 2024 | 18
Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Windows Recall
As tool emerges to probe OS feature's SQLite-based store of user activities
OSes06 Jun 2024 | 114
Arm CEO aims to conquer half the Windows world in 5 years
Computex That's probably wishful thinking, say chip analysts
Personal Tech03 Jun 2024 | 17
Windows Subsystem for Linux gets enterprise friendly and plans a settings interface
Scared of editing a config file? There'll soon be a GUI for that
OSes31 May 2024 | 26
Microsoft's Recall preview doesn't need a Copilot+ PC to run
Just because you could doesn't mean you should
OSes28 May 2024 | 55
Microsoft gives Windows admins a break and MFA a hard push
Updates now optional, but Azure security is not
Software23 May 2024 | 5
VBScript nudged nearer to the grave with next big Windows 11 update
The writing's on the wall for veteran scripting language
OSes23 May 2024 | 30
'China-aligned' spyware slingers operating since 2018 unmasked at last
Unfading Sea Haze adept at staying under the radar
Research23 May 2024 | 1
Microsoft AI Studio opens for business, with a nod to safety
Build Redmond is ready to help folks build AI 'copilots'
Software21 May 2024 | 4
Intel, AMD take a back seat as Qualcomm takes center stage in Microsoft's AI PC push
Build Plus: Windows set for ML-powered always-watching-you Recall feature
Personal Tech21 May 2024 | 22
Opera sings sweetly with native version for Windows on Arm
Browser ditches x64 blues for a snappier tune
Software16 May 2024 | 6
Blue screen of death or Eurovision's Windows95man performance – what's less annoying?
Those with a delicate constitution, look away now
Bootnotes13 May 2024 | 179
Flexing financial muscles, Arm aims to elbow into Windows PC market
Despite record revenues, Wall Street doesn't expect growth to last
Systems09 May 2024 | 42
Microsoft cannot keep its own security in order, so what hope for its add-ons customers?
Secure-by-default... if your pockets are deep enough
Security24 Apr 2024 | 3
Tiny11 Builder trims Windows 11 fat with PowerShell script
The Reg accepts no responsibility for borked installations
OSes22 Apr 2024 | 9
Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95
No, boss, I'm not just playing a game. I'm testing compatibility. Honest
Offbeat19 Apr 2024 | 84
Microsoft lifts years-old compatibility hold for Windows 11
It probably wasn't only sound driver problems that kept users away
OSes15 Apr 2024 | 13
Microsoft to use Windows 11 Start menu as a billboard with app ads for Insiders
This wasn't what most had in mind when Redmond promised to make the feature 'great again'
OSes15 Apr 2024 | 111
Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins
Opinion Neither side can afford to lose, but one surely must
SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 187
German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice
'Complete digital sovereignty' ... sounds familiar
Software04 Apr 2024 | 200
Want to keep Windows 10 secure? This is how much Microsoft will charge you
Updated Hint: It will keep going up
OSes03 Apr 2024 | 106
How a single buck bought bragging rights in the battle to port Windows 95 to NT
It reached the desktop and then ...
Offbeat28 Mar 2024 | 137
Windows Format dialog waited decades for UI revamp that never came
'Temporary' isn't always
OSes27 Mar 2024 | 64
Chrome for Windows-Arm laptops officially lands in time for Snapdragon X Elite kit
At last, no more crappy emulation or experimental builds
OSes26 Mar 2024 | 16
Microsoft gets new Windows boss as Start Menu man Parakhin 'to explore new roles'
More MS moves just a week after new AI unit and other changes announced
OSes26 Mar 2024 | 62
It's 2024 and North Korea's Kimsuky gang is exploiting Windows Help files
New infostealer may indicate a shift in tactics – and maybe targets too, beyond Asia
Research21 Mar 2024 | 5
Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4
We thought you people wanted choice, IT colossus sniffs
Applications15 Mar 2024 | 62
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