Of the many minor to medium-size annoyances that come with a modern Windows 11 installation, the requirement that you sign in with a Microsoft account is one of the most irritating. Sure, all ...

What’s happened? Microsoft’s newest Dev Channel drop, a Windows 11 Insider Preview, closes one of dark mode’s most obvious gaps. File Explorer’s action and error dialogs finally honor your theme, so ...

Microsoft is once again blocking the ability to bypass a Microsoft Account when setting up a Windows 11 PC for the first time.

Everyone personalizes their Windows PC in their own way, and I prefer to keep mine as clean and minimal as possible. I hide all my desktop icons, so my desktop always looks tidy, and my taskbar only ...

Above and beyond the benefits of a fresh do-over, clean installing Windows 11 improves security, exposes new features, and more.

Windows 10's End of Life is upon us, and although there's an option for extended updates, I'd advise gamers to move on now.

When Amazon.com Inc. recruited longtime Microsoft Corp. product chief Panos Panay in 2023 to run its devices division, his new colleagues thought the e-commerce giant was preparing to take its ...

Subscriptions can be started on your console or through the Microsoft website. The latest Xbox OS integrates Game Pass into “My games and apps,” allowing direct game installation without opening the ...

First off, as a standard user—just your everyday PC gamer without any certificates suggesting you know about servers and stuff—Windows 10 support will cease on October 14, 2025. If you don't do ...

Some users were keen on finding out whether the MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 versions could install a miniature Windows 95 instead of Windows 3.1. The premise behind this reasoning was that the process ...