Microsoft is officially retiring its long-standing Control Panel, transitioning all system management to the modern Settings app to eliminate interface redundancy.This strategic shift follows years of ...

Microsoft wants to fix 'pain points' in Windows 11 PCs. The first batch of changes, targeting the Windows Update experience, ...

CVE-2026-32202 actively exploited after April 27 advisory fix, exposing NTLMv2 hashes via zero-click SMB authentication.

The disclosure is a notable coming from a company that has spent months defending an OS criticized for its uneven performance ...

The latest Windows 11 Insider Preview introduces changes to the native Storage menu and increases the FAT32 volume limit, ...

Microsoft confirmed it's going after every design element in the OS, including the "Installing Windows 11" screen, which ...

Microsoft is preparing a major Windows 11 reliability update for May 2026 with improvements across File Explorer, ...

Microsoft revamps the Insider program, hands out some batteries, releases new builds, and more in this week's Microsoft Weekly news recap.

Modern standby is the sleep state most newer PCs go into when you tell them to sleep. It cuts power to the display and CPU, but allows for minimal background processes to continue, so you can have ...

Before there were Settings, there was Control Panel. The legacy interface for changing Windows settings or accessing hardware and network tools has been part of the operating system for decades, and ...

Microsoft doesn't want to break printer and device drivers.

It’s all to do with pesky printer and network drivers. It’s all to do with pesky printer and network drivers. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...