Gone are the Windows 7 days where everyone agreed that it was one of the best-designed operating systems. Now there's Windows ...

Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7859 (KB5077223) arrives in the Beta Channel with minor improvements and bug fixes.

AI-related changes to Notepad allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code on your computer. The vulnerability was related to ...

You probably already know that you can manually install a fresh copy of Windows using your own install media. You can create this install media using Microsoft's tool, or you can use a tool like Rufus ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Imagine you're using Windows 11 and you've learned that an upgrade is available. You struggle to approve the upgrade, but you know you will ...

If you want to de-enshittify Windows 11 but find starting over from scratch to be daunting, then this is for you.

If you're a fan of Windows 11's Fluent Design, this is the Edge extension for you.

My very first problem was one I've written about before: Linux isn't generally compatible with Arm-based machines. Alas, two of the spare machines I had hoped to use for this project are outfitted ...

Bill Gates didn’t reject intelligence in software back then, rather he rejected the mythology around it. By talking about “softer software,” he envisioned systems that learned from users, adapted to ...

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

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Catch up with this week's Microsoft stories in our weekly recap, including long-anticipated taskbar fixes in Windows 11, ...