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Enthusiast installs Win 3.1X on bare metal Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti system
By Mark Tyson last updated
A retro computing connoisseur has bare-metal installed and booted Microsoft Windows 3.1X on a Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti PC system.

Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions
By Kunal Khullar published
Windows 11 24H2 systems are being upgraded to 25H2 automatically, as Microsoft aims to streamline updates before support ends.

'Every Microsoft engineer got a stopwatch,' says Windows veteran reminiscing about company's past focus on speed
By Mark Tyson published
A former president of Microsoft’s Windows Division has been reminiscing about the lean and efficient coding regime at Microsoft in the 1980s.

Microsoft issues emergency update for Windows 11
By Kunal Khullar published
The latest Windows 11 emergency update tackles widespread install errors and replaces the problematic KB5079391 rollout.

Latest Windows 11 update is broken, refuses to install
By Hassam Nasir published
The update came with missing or corrupted files.

Microsoft blocks registry trick that unlocked performance-boosting native NVMe driver on Windows 11
By Luke James published
Microsoft has blocked the registry trick that allowed Windows 11 users to enable a native NVMe driver on their PCs. However, third-party tools can still help with a workaround.

Microsoft promises serious improvements to Windows 11 performance, reliability, and updates
By Bruno Ferreira published
Microsoft promises serious improvements to Windows 11 performance, reliability, and updates

Microsoft and Samsung scramble to fix a major C: drive lockout bug on Galaxy devices
By Ben Stockton published
This crippling bug affects some Samsung Galaxy Book 4 and Samsung Desktop devices

Windows 11 continues gaining traction, nears 75% market share
By Jowi Morales published
Windows 11 finally breaks 70% market share, five months after Microsoft ended support for Windows 10.

Creator of Window's Task Manager shows off 'probably what Task Manager would look like if I were still around'
By Jowi Morales published
Dave Plummer created Tempest AI to play the classic Atari game, but he also built a dashboard which imagines what Task Manager should look like if he were still in charge of it.
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