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Microsoft is shifting focus to fixing Windows 11 performance and reliability after months of buggy updates, boot failures, ...

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Microsoft has now begun rolling out update KB5074105, the latest optional patch for Windows 11. It’s optional because this is technically a preview of next month’s mandatory Patch Tuesday update. You ...

Microsoft’s strict Windows 11 requirements have turned a routine upgrade into a referendum on who deserves modern software.

Round and round we go.

We previously reported on a bug that Microsoft said was creating a "limited number of reports" over a boot failure issue, in ...

Microsoft has linked recent reports of Windows 11 boot failures after installing the January 2026 updates to previously ...

Complaining about Windows 11 is a popular sport among tech enthusiasts on the Internet, whether you’re publicly switching to Linux, publishing guides about the dozens of things you need to do to make ...

Microsoft has decided that a number of old modem drivers pose a security risk and thus disabled them entirely.

Microsoft has brought Windows 11 to over a billion users in record time. The operating system is spreading faster than ...

But enough about the financials. The news I was most interested in came in MS CEO Satya Nadella's opening remarks, in which he revealed that its current OS has reached a significant milestone: "One ...