Microsoft finally acknowledged complaints about Windows 11. The company is promising sweeping changes to a slew of features. Windows Insiders will have a greater voice in upcoming releases.

The latest Windows 11 preview build introduces the ability to specify a custom user directory for your account, something both macOS and Linux have supported for decades. When you purchase through ...

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Windows 11 hit the milestone in the recent holiday quarter. Windows 11 hit the milestone in the recent holiday quarter. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all ...

Microsoft Gives All Eligible PCs the Green Light for Windows 11 25H2 Your email has been sent Following the end of support for Windows 10, Microsoft is making a concerted effort to move its vast user ...

Windows Recall is one of the biggest AI features Microsoft has added to Windows 11. It’s useful, but it comes with some privacy trade-offs. If you're a Windows 11 user, and specifically an owner of a ...

Why it matters: Some Windows users often complain about preinstalled apps that are difficult to remove, resulting in cluttered interfaces, annoying notifications, and sometimes slower performance.

Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...

A new ad for Windows 11, and by extension new Windows 11-powered laptops, has been posted to the official Windows YouTube channel. It’s called “Right side of risk.” Uh-oh. The 30-second spot once ...

Even if you're perfectly content with Windows 10, updates will soon cost extra and you'll eventually need to switch to Windows 11. I compare the two operating systems so you know what to expect upon ...

The end is here—at least, it is for Windows 10. Microsoft officially stopped supporting the decade-old operating system on October 14, 2025. There's one hiccup, though: Even though Windows 11 is a ...

Republished on December 14 with Microsoft’s response to dangerous user confusion after a raft of “muddled” articles were published. The confusion around Microsoft updates continues. Just as it ...