Thirty years after Bill Gates declared Microsoft was going “all-in” on the internet, echoes of that moment are resurfacing in ...

Preloading (or pre-caching) is meant to speed up the load times of File Explorer, which have, so far, been a major downgrade compared to Windows 10. Microsoft is testing loading File Explorer into ...

Three years after ChatGPT made OpenAI the leader in artificial intelligence and a household name, rivals have closed the gap ...

With every new cycle of Windows, Microsoft will update, rebrand, or even remove software from its suite. These are some iconic apps we'll never see again.

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Windows 11 KB5072033 is now available for Windows 11 25H2 or 24H2, and it's the last update for the year 2025.

A third-party patch management company is cutting short attackers’ use of LNK files to smuggle in malicious commands, while ...

The ClickFix campaign disguises malware as legitimate Windows updates, using steganography to hide shellcode in PNG files and ...

Microsoft rolls out Model Context Protocol support in Windows ML, providing tools to build agentic Windows applications that ...

I've covered Microsoft for decades, but even I was confused by the different versions of its AI. At Ignite, I asked execs to ...

We are at a rare moment in Microsoft history, when the company that defined the modern PC is supporting a single version of ...