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 ...

Microsoft has just released the Windows 11 25H2 preview build 26220.7344 for Insiders on the Dev and Beta Channels. The main change is the public preview of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open ...

Windows Yes, if you already use a local account on Windows 10, you can upgrade to Windows 11 without having to link your Microsoft account, and here's how.

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 ...

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 ...

Windows continues to be the most widely used operating system in the world, powering over a billion devices from personal laptops and desktops to workstations and enterprise machines. It is the ...

As technology evolves, so does the complexity of operating systems like Windows 11. Users may often find themselves facing critical boot failures, forcing them into the Windows Recovery Environment ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has spent years trying to phase out the traditional Windows Control Panel. Since Windows 10, the company has pushed users toward a modernized settings interface, but the ...

Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5051987 and KB5051989 cumulative updates for versions 24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and issues. Both KB5051987 and KB5051989 are mandatory ...

In a nutshell: The MIDI 2.0 standard was introduced in 2020, nearly 40 years after the original version. MIDI remains a crucial technology for musicians and music producers, and its utility on PCs is ...