A lot happened to Windows in 2025. Microsoft added plenty of new features, but also removed some. Here is everything that the ...

Windows 11 is secretly testing a new Windows Run, which is modern and built on new code compared to the legacy Run, but don't ...

Microsoft has taken the rare step of releasing a patch for a handful of legacy operating systems it no longer services after finding a critical vulnerability. The company is warning users to patch ...

Preserving not just updates, but also lots of the now-deleted optional extras Legacy Update was already extremely useful if you chose to disembark from Microsoft's upgrade railroad. Now it's even more ...

Touch is the new paradigm, says Paul Jacobs, and older programs will have to adapt to the upcoming, touch-friendly version of the Windows OS. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, ...

Microsoft has announced a new "strategic initiative" aimed at removing legacy drivers from Windows Update to keep the tool secure and reliable. The drivers that will be removed first are ones with ...

Microsoft has started replacing the legacy version of the Edge browser with the new Chromium-based Edge in Windows 10 Dev builds. This change is rolling out to all customers installing Windows 10 ...

Microsoft is finally ripping out one of the weakest links in its identity stack, cutting off a legacy cipher that attackers ...

An application that runs on Windows PCs. Myriad apps fall into this category; essentially every program written for Windows all the way back to 1990 and the first popular version of Windows (Windows 3 ...

Recently, Microsoft gave the first official on-record confirmation about the apparent impending doom of the Windows Control Panel. After widespread media coverage of it though, the company soon ...

Ever since Microsoft first announced that Windows 8 would be compatible with certain ARM system-on-chip processors, questions about what this would mean for existing Windows applications have been ...