Microsoft is rolling out a revamped personalized news service called Start. The feed will be baked into the Windows 10 taskbar and the Windows 11 widgets section. You can also access it via the web, ...

Microsoft now has a Start menu and a Start feed, within both Windows 10 and Windows 11. Both Microsoft and Google curate news from leading publishers, though Microsoft has done it for far longer: over ...

Microsoft has started testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu, a new experiment the company says will help users find new "great" apps in the Microsoft Store. The trial is now rolling out in the Beta ...

Microsoft offers a vast array of first-party PC apps for Windows 11 - here are five more of my favorites that I always ...

Microsoft is testing new ads in the Windows Start menu, or what it describes as "new treatments," for users logged into local accounts as part of a "badging" expansion. This "feature" has been under ...

Microsoft has revealed details about a new known issue affecting the most recent Windows versions. According to the software giant, customers running Windows 10 and 11 (versions between 20H2 and 22H2) ...

Microsoft has rolled out a new way to further mismanage the Windows 11 Start menu: displaying ads in the form of recommended apps. The ads are part of the KB5036980 update that rolled out to Windows ...

Facepalm: Microsoft first introduced ads on the Start menu with Windows 10 but has kept them out of Windows 11 so far, possibly to incentivize migration to its latest version. But that's likely set to ...