Tag: Windows

January 29, 2024

Open-source multi-platform device management vendor Fleet recently introduced Windows support to its existing software, which already enables IT to manage Linux and Apple devices within a single console. The multi-platform upgrade comes as many companies continue to manage their way […]

January 19, 2024

A Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Windows 11 is when the PC locks up entirely, with no possible recourse – except to reboot there and then – unless you’ve hacked the operating system, that is. Tom’s Hardware reports that […]

January 11, 2024

Microsoft might be pushing forward with integrating AI into as many aspects of Windows 11 as possible, but it’s not totally forgotten about Windows 10 users. The older version of Windows continues to be very popular among Windows’ user base, […]

January 10, 2024

Installing and repairing Windows operating systems requires access to known, good, working, and virus-free installation, image, and supporting files. Typically, such collections can run into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of items, all organized within a complex hierarchy […]

January 4, 2024

Welcome to the futuristic-sounding year of 2024 — that time of year when people set New Year’s resolutions and get started on them. If you subscribe to our Cool Tools newsletter at The Intelligence, you’ve seen me talking about something […]

December 27, 2023

If you have a PC from a maker like Dell, Lenovo, or MSI, you might have noticed that there are details about the company and support options in Windows Settings’ About section. However, if you built your own system, Windows […]

December 20, 2023

Microsoft has bet everything on generative artificial intelligence (genAI) this year. Not even the shock ouster of OpenAI’s CEO for mysterious accusations of dishonesty — followed by his shock return without those accusations being fully explained — has slowed things […]

December 14, 2023

Speaking to a financial analyst at Citigroup’s Global Technology Conference in September, Intel’s chief financial officer David Zinsner caused a bit of a stir when he hinted at a future release of Windows, quite possibly Windows 12, coming in 2024. […]

December 12, 2023

Over the past few days, many users have been pouring onto social media platforms and online message boards, complaining that their PC is freezing up randomly if they are running Avira as their AV software of choice. One affected user […]

November 17, 2023

We are now in the third decade of Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday releases, which deliver fewer critical updates to browsers and Windows platforms — and much more reliable updates to Microsoft Office — than in the early days of patching. […]

November 10, 2023

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday is 20 years old, and 1.4 billion monthly active Windows devices still require constant updates to keep users’ data safe. The company’s official Windows blog posted an abridged version of the Patch Tuesday and Windows security history, […]

October 17, 2023

Some may be surprised at the install rate thus far, but it is not all that great compared to earlier operating systems. It took roughly 14 months for Windows 10 to hit 400 million active installs, and just under five […]

September 26, 2023

Thinking back to the era of Windows 3.0, 3.1, and Windows for Workgroups, I dimly recall that printer drivers could be especially troublesome. Happily, with Windows 95 through Windows 7, printer problems didn’t register much on my radar. But in […]

September 20, 2023

In the Linux world, package managers catalog and install the software available in a given Linux distribution. Until recently, Microsoft Windows software management wasn’t that centralized. There was a system for adding or removing components for Windows itself, but not […]

September 12, 2023

It’s the beginning of the end for third-party printer drivers in Windows, according to a support document the company released earlier this month. Instead of bespoke drivers for individual printers and scanners, Windows will rely on its built-in universal “class […]

August 31, 2023

As part of the change, Windows 11 PCs in the region will soon open all links in the default web browser rather than Microsoft Edge. It will be a welcome update, as people have often expressed frustration at Microsoft’s decision […]

August 25, 2023

Microsoft isn’t set to end support for Windows 10 until 2025, but users now have a reason to upgrade to Windows 11 sooner than that. That’s because new Intel documents have leaked, revealing that support for Wi-Fi 7 will not […]

August 22, 2023

The best way to run Windows on a Mac is being updated with new features and macOS Sonoma compatibility. Among the new features in the latest Parallels Desktop release are TouchID support for Windows, enhanced multitouch, and better support for […]

August 18, 2023

Windows 11 has reportedly run into problems with its latest cumulative update, with the upgrade failing to install for some folks, and breaking Microsoft Defender in other cases. Windows Latest has rounded up the latest batch of complaints regarding a […]

August 16, 2023

Is Windows 11 better than Windows 10? Should you upgrade? That’s a question I’ve been getting a lot from the readers of my Windows Intelligence newsletter. People also want to know whether Microsoft has fixed the problems Windows 11 had […]