In May 2024, Microsoft announced the Windows Copilot Runtime. Targeted at its then-new Copilot+ PCs, it provided a mix of innovations, from on-device small language models to improvements to Windows’ ...

Until the release of Windows 11, the upgrade proposition for Windows operating systems was rather straightforward: you considered whether the current version of Windows on your system still fulfilled ...

Seven months after unveiling its Windows Resiliency Initiative (WRI), Microsoft on Thursday announced a raft of new and upcoming security capabilities. The changes, which involve post-crash recovery, ...

For everyone else looking to upgrade to Windows 11, especially people who built or upgraded their own Windows desktop, the answer could be more complicated. Let’s take a look at what TPMs do and how ...

Most apps on a modern Windows 11 PC, including Microsoft’s first-party ones, are actually web apps. That's a major problem, because web apps use more memory and run more slowly than their truly native ...

Windows 11 version 26H1 launches this spring on Snapdragon X2 PCs only, bringing platform-level changes without new features for most users. Windows 11 version 26H1 is set to arrive this spring… but ...

The widespread adoption of AI is yielding new technologies and applications on a daily basis, but this expansive potential also places greater strain than ever on the systems that support our devices.

Microsoft admits it didn't expect Win32 to survive until 2026. After years of RAM-heavy web apps, Windows 11 is going back to ...