Category: Windows

August 16, 2019

Windows 10 has undoubtedly been a significant improvement over its predecessors, but the latest operating system from Microsoft isn’t without its issues. Over the past several days, a variety of substantial issues have cropped up for Windows users, most of […]

August 13, 2019

CTF, a little-known Microsoft protocol used by all Windows operating system versions since Windows XP, is insecure and can be exploited with ease. According to Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher with Google’s Project Zero elite security team and the one […]

August 12, 2019

When you count all the different ways Windows 10 will be available, there are actually ten editions: Windows 10 Home, Pro, Pro for Workstations, Enterprise, Enterprise LTSC, Education, Pro Education, Windows 10 in S mode, IOT and Team, leaving you […]

August 12, 2019

That’s according to specialists at cybersecurity firm Eclypsium, which claim that the faulty drivers are responsible for powering devices by some of the world’s biggest electronics companies and BIOS makers – including Intel, Toshiba, Huawei and Asus. All versions of […]

August 8, 2019

Microsoft is releasing two slightly different new Windows 10 19H2 test builds to the Slow Ring today, August 8. One of the builds has a handful of incremental feature tweaks turned on by default; the other has them turned off […]

August 7, 2019

For those of you still using Windows 7, there’s a new browser on the block that you’ll need to start planning to deploy — and it’s not Edge. Well, it is an Edge browser, but not the Edge browser you […]

August 2, 2019

Windows S Mode locks down your computer to apps obtained from the Microsoft Store, which the company argues is better for security. It’s also better for Microsoft’s stats on how much people are using “tiled” apps. Anyone who has bought […]

August 1, 2019

After a fairly stagnant few months, Windows 10 has seen a significant uptake in users, tantalisingly close to having half the market at 48.86 (3.07). Perhaps more importantly for Microsoft, Windows 7, which started the year with over 40 per […]

July 31, 2019

Whereas mobile devices can be ‘cloned’ pretty much instantly, desktop machines remain in the dark ages, with a fresh install and individual app installations still the order of the day. Microsoft seems to have noticed that too, and the latest […]

July 29, 2019

With less than half a year to go before support ends for Windows 7, about three-quarters of computers in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) are still running the OS. Just over one million computers in the NHS are still […]