Windows 11 just resumed feature updates and the early 2026 changes are surprisingly useful.

We're back to settle what has become an age-old debate: does Windows 11 or Windows 10 deliver better gaming performance? Microsoft has been rolling out Windows 11 25H2 for the past few months, an ...

Microsoft released KB5077793 to fix Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 authentication failures. January 2026 security update KB5073379 caused credential prompt failures across multiple Windows ...

As kids, many of us believed that pressing Refresh on the Windows desktop would make our games and PCs run faster. But what does it actually do? Back in the day, I remember incessantly right-clicking ...

If you’ve been following our coverage for the last few years, you’ll already know that 2025 is the year that Windows 10 died. Technically. “Died,” because Microsoft’s formal end-of-support date came ...

The Linux desktop has continued its slow growth. Linux has been making gains in no small part because of Microsoft Windows' blunders. Users and governments have been losing trust in Windows and ...

From October 14, 2025, Microsoft is no longer supporting Windows 10 with new features, troubleshooting aids, or security updates. That's because Microsoft follows a ten-year lifecycle support policy ...

Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10 in October. Many PCs with Windows 10 don't pass Microsoft's strict requirement check. It's possible to bypass this and install ...

Anyone running Windows 11 version 25H2 can test the full screen experience that debuted on the Xbox Ally gaming handhelds. And while this isn’t particularly useful on traditional laptop and desktop ...

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