The Redmond giant released another emergency update for Windows that disable Intel’s mitigation against Spectre variant 2, which has been causing reboot issues and more.
Contrary to Intel’s reassuring statements from last week, Microsoft confirmed today that the security patches for Meltdown and Spectre will have an impact on performance on older systems.
The first real pictures of the cancelled Nokia Mercury tablet show what looks like a giant version of the cheap Lumia smartphones that were popular back in the day.
Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs are currently vulnerable to a strange bug that can cause them to significantly slow down or even blue screen.
WikiLeaks has published details of another exploit used by the CIA - a piece of spyware that can completely hijack a Windows-based system.
Microsoft has reportedly started to block Windows 7 and 8.1 updates on PCs with Intel's Kaby Lake processors or AMD's Ryzen CPUs.
Microsoft has released a critical update for Adobe Flash Player on Windows which fixes a critical vulnerability issue that could lead to remote code execution.
Microsoft has announced that the February updates will now be released on March 14, 2017, which is the next Patch Tuesday.
Microsoft support has posted a Fix Windows Update errors page to navigate users to the easiest ways to troubleshoot common errors.
A new third-party app is available for Windows 10 devices that provides access to Trakt, a TV and movie tracking service.
Valve has released this week its latest Steam hardware survey for the month of October and Microsoft’s Windows 10 is now at an all-time high.
Microsoft has finally stopped selling Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8.1 licenses to PC OEMs as of yesterday, October 31.
You no longer will be able to download Windows Essentials 2012 after January 10, 2017, but Movie Maker will live on.
Microsoft posts the details of how their new monthly servicing model for Windows 7, 8.1, Server 2008 RS, Server 2012, and Server 2012 R2 updates will work.
The latest Steam Hardware survey shows a decline in Windows 10 usage, whereas Windows 8.1 usage increases. MacOS and Linux also see increases.
According to a new post out by Mary Jo Foley at CNET Microsoft has begun removing Get Windows 10 app from Windows 7 and 8.1 devices.
While Microsoft ended its free upgrade offer to Windows 10 on July 29, the new operating system has continued to grow its desktop OS share over the last month.
Chuck Friedman, the Microsoft Corporate VP in charge of the Windows shell gave an interesting interview to Business Insider to reveal how the company leveraged the Windows 8 legacy to develop its latest operating system.
