Tag: operating systems

To stay safe in Windows 10 from next October commercial customers have to pay $61, then ‘double every consecutive year for a maximum of three years’

To stay safe in…

Update: Microsoft has been in touch to clarify that “this week’s news from Microsoft on Windows 10 ESU pricing…
The father of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, says the reason why Windows has a rep for bugs and blue screens isn’t down to bad code but bad memory

The father of the…

OK, brace yourself for this one, peeps. Linus Torvalds, the software developer who created the Linux operating system and…
A keyboard sticker can turn your new laptop into an AI PC. Probably…

A keyboard sticker can…

Microsoft's Copilot AI functionality recently got some upgrades, allowing it do complete a wide range of OS grunt work…
The disk ‘Format’ dialog in Windows was only meant to be a temporary solution but it’s still chugging along, 30 years later

The disk ‘Format’ dialog…

Just imagine that you're a software developer and you've got an enormous list of tasks to do. One of…
Hooray, Microsoft is making File Explorer faster, but it’s still slower than Windows 10 and consumes more RAM

Hooray, Microsoft is making…

Windows 11 adoption has been slow for many different reasons, from hardware constraints to people just not wanting to…
Microsoft confirms that its new AI agent in Windows 11 hallucinates like every other chatbot and poses security risks to users

Microsoft confirms that its…

Like the rest of the tech world and its LLM-powered pooch, Microsoft has been on a big AI push…
Surprise surprise, people are still in no hurry to switch to Windows 11, Dell reveals

Surprise surprise, people are…

Dell revealed that we’ve fallen behind schedule on Windows 10 to Windows 11 upgrades. Cue the surprised gasps, folks.…
Windows 11 is going to start quietly preloading File Explorer in the background to make it faster, which is a good reminder that you should probably try a different file manager anyway

Windows 11 is going…

In the latest Windows Insider beta update released November 21, Microsoft announced the arrival of its full-screen Xbox experience…
We used to be a society (with a good Windows Task Manager icon)

We used to be…

Microsoft has delivered some blows to Task Manager in recent times. As noted last week by PC Gamer’s Andy…
Windows ‘really does suck for some people’: Ex Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer explains how he would fix the popular OS

Windows ‘really does suck…

“Windows Sucks” is the cold open to former Microsoft Engineer turned tech YouTuber, Dave Plummer’s latest video. As tongue-in-cheek…