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Microsoft has released previews of the non-security portion of upcoming Windows updates for the February patch day. They are currently available for Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2. The manufacturer is ...

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

Ever wondered what owning a computer in the 1980s was like? Outside of nostalgia, it wasn’t the best. Until 1984, unless you were in some kind of strange lab or university, nearly everything was ...

November 10, 1983: Microsoft tells the world about an upcoming product called Windows that will bring the graphical user interface to IBM PCs. Although Microsoft’s announcement about the new operating ...

The August 2025 (KB5063878) Windows update caused an issue that prevented non-admin users from carrying out several vital operations due to misbehaving UAC prompts. Microsoft has since released its ...

The year was 1983. Microsoft was slowly becoming a well-known tech company in the PC space. Two years before, in 1981, Its MS-DOS operating system would be installed in the first IBM PC. It launched ...

Microsoft reminded users that insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols will be disabled soon in future Windows releases. The TLS secure communication protocol is crafted to ...

Microsoft will be disabling TLS versions 1.0 and 1.1 on Windows very soon. The company announced it earlier today and is part of its broader strategy to make the whole of Windows OS more secure.