Microsoft's 11-year itch: The uncelebrated anniversary of Windows 8 Lots to like under the covers, but what was on top made it truly unforgettable OSes31 Oct 2023 | 101
Microsoft calls time on Windows Insider MVP program Unwavering loyalty and devotion rewarded with termination OSes30 Oct 2023 | 34
Windows CE reaches end of life, if not end of sales Some loved it, some laughed at it, but it survived 26 years OSes30 Oct 2023 | 42
Clippy-like AI at forefront of Windows update previews Bugfixes for Windows 10, but 11 is where the Copilot action is OSes27 Oct 2023 | 25
Does Windows have a very weak password lurking in its crypto libraries? Don't panic – it's just for testing OSes26 Oct 2023 | 25
Word turns 40: From 'new kid on the block' to 'I can't believe it's not bloatware' In 1983, David Copperfield vanished the Statue of Liberty and Word for DOS turned up Applications25 Oct 2023 | 112
CEO Satya Nadella thinks Microsoft hung up on Windows Phone too soon 'There could have been ways we could have made it work' Software25 Oct 2023 | 127
Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected Opinion In a world of incremental updates, Windows 12 won't be Windows 12 OSes23 Oct 2023 | 162
Paying for WinRAR in all the wrong ways - Russia and China hitting ancient app Incidentally, Windows 11 has native rar support now Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 22
Microsoft starts offering advice in how to code for Arm In 2027 a quarter of PCs won’t use x86, and Redmond wants its ecosystem ready OSes17 Oct 2023 | 28
BLOODALCHEMY provides backdoor to southeast Asian nations' secrets Sophisticated malware devs believed to be behind latest addition to toolset of China-aligned attackers Research16 Oct 2023 | 1
Microsoft gives unexpected tutorial on how to install Linux You may need it – Windows 10 is no longer a free upgrade OSes11 Oct 2023 | 101
Go ahead, let the unknowable security risks of Windows Copilot onto your PC fleet Column Or maybe don't let Microsoft's desire to defeat Google dictate your defensive strategy AI + ML11 Oct 2023 | 72
Microsoft does not want ValueLicensing CEO anywhere near its confidentiality ring Perpetual license case perpetually rumbles on Software10 Oct 2023 | 12
Microsoft Cortana's farewell tour comes to the Windows Insider program Last season's assistant shuffles off from the Canary build of Windows 11 OSes06 Oct 2023 | 13
Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 It's a great advert for Ubuntu anyway OSes05 Oct 2023 | 211
Ex-Microsoft maverick takes us on a trip through vintage Task Manager code Plus: Have you updated to the latest version of Bloated Fetal Sacs? OSes04 Oct 2023 | 23
Why Chromebooks are the new immortals of tech Opinion A decade of support is a much better deal than what Microsoft or Apple will give you OSes22 Sep 2023 | 98
Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay abruptly announces departure Rumors point to Panay headed to Amazon to take over for outgoing Alexa and Echo chief David Limp Personal Tech18 Sep 2023 | 3
Google exec: Microsoft Teams concession 'too little, too late' If you don't tackle Redmond's abuse of software licensing in rival clouds it'll be game over for innovation, warns Amit Zavery Cloud Infrastructure Week15 Sep 2023 | 39
Get ready to say hello to new Windows and goodbye to an old friend The clock is ticking for Windows troubleshooters, plus Microsoft's preparing a new OS release Software11 Sep 2023 | 17
Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows Go native or go home: End of servicing plan rolled out for legacy printer drivers in fresh update OSes11 Sep 2023 | 134
Windows File Explorer gets nostalgic speed boost thanks to one weird bug A glitch that makes the lives of users better? Where do we sign? OSes06 Sep 2023 | 58
Attackers accessed UK military data through high-security fencing firm's Windows 7 rig Irony, not barbed wire, cuts the deepest Cyber-crime04 Sep 2023 | 70
Microsoft calls time on ancient TLS in Windows, breaking own stuff in the process Hold onto your SQL Server, enterprise admins Security04 Sep 2023 | 65
Indian armed forces gives Windows its marching orders, but only for desktop warriors Opinion I am become Tux, destroyer of warez OSes14 Aug 2023 | 40
Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop Opinion Microsoft is moving Windows to the cloud and Apple will be happy to have you run macOS on the cloud OSes04 Aug 2023 | 311
Soft-reboot in systemd 254 sounds a lot like Windows' Fast Startup Where does Agent P work again? OSes02 Aug 2023 | 128
Firefox 115 browser breathes life into old operating systems Release is good news for fans of Windows 7, 8, and macOS from Sierra to Mojave. OSes05 Jul 2023 | 21
This Windows update is snarling up some endpoint security tools Malwarebytes and Trellix upgrades to the rescue Sysadmin Month29 Jun 2023 | 9
Dialup-era developer writes ChatGPT client for Windows 3.1 Next on the agenda: ClippyGPT, because why not? Personal Tech27 Jun 2023 | 53
Crypto catastrophe strikes some Atomic Wallet users, over $35M thought stolen Victims nursing huge losses haven't the foggiest how heist happened, yet Security05 Jun 2023 | 22
Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs Opinion Intellectual property law crushed by zombie horde Software05 Jun 2023 | 111
Microsoft finally gets around to supporting rar, gz and tar files in Windows No more downloading decompressors and dodging malware and payment demands, maybe Software24 May 2023 | 79
First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered … and a C compiler for it too Nearly quarter of a century after it wasn't released, Windows 2000 for DEC Alpha found on a discarded disk OSes19 May 2023 | 95
Why Microsoft just patched a patch that squashed an under-attack Outlook bug Let's take a quick dive into Windows API Patches12 May 2023 | 45
Microsoft may charge different prices for Office with or without Teams How to appease antitrust regulators by looking like you're doing something Storage05 May 2023 | 32
Russia tops national leagues in open source downloads Putin FOSS to work when Microsoft et al abandoned pariah state OSes05 May 2023 | 28
Microsoft pushes users to the Edge in Outlook, Teams The 1990s are back, baby Applications02 May 2023 | 53
No more feature updates for Windows 10 – current version is final Shift off to Win 11 now, go on... better hope your biz is giving out fresh hardware OSes28 Apr 2023 | 210
Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows code in memory-safe Rust Now that's a C change we can back CSO27 Apr 2023 | 115
Another cloud provider runs to shelter from Microsoft's licensing practices First British biz joins Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers PaaS + IaaS27 Apr 2023 | 8
How fiends abuse an out-of-date Microsoft Windows driver to infect victims It's like those TV movies where a spy cuts a wire and the whole building's security goes out Research24 Apr 2023 | 16
Microsoft suggests businesses buy fewer PCs. No, really Redmond wants you using Cloud PCs instead because they offer a better sustainability story Personal Tech24 Apr 2023 | 96
Microsoft tells admins to autoreview your Autopatch alerts or autolose the service And you wouldn't want that ... would you? Security05 Apr 2023 | 20
Microsoft pushes out PowerShell scripts to fix BitLocker bypass Attackers exploiting the vulnerability could access encrypted data Software19 Mar 2023 | 28
UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson is a… what user now? Elder statesman of system software makes a shocking revelation Offbeat17 Mar 2023 | 91
Google euthanizes Chrome Cleanup Tool because it no longer has a purpose Times have changed and unwanted software on Windows is a rarity (unless you count Windows itself) Security11 Mar 2023 | 4
Microsoft adds features to Windows 11 monthly – managing it is your problem 'Continuous innovation' means it's time to refine your WSUS skills unless you want users doing all sorts of weird stuff OSes02 Mar 2023 | 71
Happy Valentine's Day: Here's the final nail in Internet Explorer's coffin Browser finally gone, but its memory, engine, wails of user and dev torment live on until at least 2029 Software14 Feb 2023 | 21
Windows November update trips up some Intel graphics drivers If you're having trouble with your games, this may be why OSes09 Feb 2023 | 4
You can run Windows 11 on just 200MB of RAM – but should you? Video Just because you can doesn’t mean you should OSes08 Feb 2023 | 98
Microsoft is changing how it handles device diagnostic data to keep EU sweet Data sovereignty – the Windows maker has heard of it Networks06 Feb 2023 | 10
Microsoft swears it's not coming for your data with scan for old Office versions Don't mind us, we'll just have a quick look for unsupported installs and then disappear, we pwoooomise Software03 Feb 2023 | 77
Microsoft sweeps up after breaking .NET with December security updates XPS doc display issues fixed – until the next patch, at least Patches01 Feb 2023 | 3
Japan's NTT Docomo uses invisibility cloak tech to fix 5G reception Giving windows a transmissive metasurface can improve coverage from a single base station Networks01 Feb 2023 | 8
If your Start menu or apps are freezing up on Windows, Microsoft has a suggestion No, it's not install Fedora Linux, sadly OSes26 Jan 2023 | 100
Microsoft took its macros and went home, so miscreants turned to Windows LNK files Adapt or die Research23 Jan 2023 | 6
Nearly 300 MSI motherboards will run any old code in Secure Boot, no questions asked Updated 'I believe they made this change deliberately' claims researcher Security17 Jan 2023 | 14
Microsoft locks door to default guest authentication in Windows Pro Bringing OS version into sync with Enterprise and Education editions CSO17 Jan 2023 | 24
Microsoft Defender ASR rules strip icons, app shortcuts from Taskbar, Start Menu Happy Friday 13th sysadmins! Techies find workarounds but Redmond still 'investigating' Security13 Jan 2023 | 40
Microsoft fixes Windows database connections it broke in November January Patch Tuesday update resolves issue caused by Patch Tuesday update late in '22 Patches11 Jan 2023 | 3