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CrowdStrike's market cap falls $12.5 billion in wake of global outage
By Les Pounder published
CrowdStrike shares open 15% down after a 24-hour nightmare slowly comes to a close.
How to fix CrowdStrike BSODs in three minutes — fix requires manual changes, but they are simple
By Les Pounder published
Here’s how to fix the infamous CrowdStrike BSOD in under three minutes.
Global IT issue strikes Windows machines, cause of issue allegedly linked to CrowdStrike software update
By Les Pounder published
An apparent IT update is allegedly linked to a global IT outage for Microsoft Cloud services and BSoD
Windows 11 Update 23H2 is now in broad deployment after fixing critical bugs
By Christopher Harper published
Microsoft finally finishes launching Windows 11 Update 23H2, so any user who checks Windows Update can receive it.
Huawei's long-awaited Windows challenger will likely come to PCs this year
By Dallin Grimm published
Huawei's developer website features more and more photos of a PC version of HarmonyOS Next, suggesting that the operating system will release its expected PC version by the end of the year.
Windows 11 24H2 won't be hitting x86 PCs until 'later this year'
By Aaron Klotz published
Windows 11 24H2 won't be making its way to x86 PCs in the immediate future. A new Microsoft update suggests the update won't come for the next several months, possibly not until Q4 of this year.
Windows veteran details creating Windows NT Start Menu
By Mark Tyson published
Windows development veteran Dave Plummer recently took to Twitter/X to reveal the story behind the Windows NT Start Menu branding banner, which was the first to use live rendering.
Developer ports Windows NT to Power Macintosh systems
By Jeff Butts published
You can use the newly released firmware and loader to test running Windows NT on your Power Macintosh.
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