Microsoft has many cool features enabled by default on Windows 10 and 11. However, there are some irksome ones that I wish the company would leave off and allow the user to opt into. Having certain ...

Windows 11 comes with many hidden features that Microsoft has already built into the system, but hasn’t yet activated for general use. With the ViVeTool program, you can activate those hidden ...

A preview of this month's non-security update for Windows 11 is here, and it brings support for extremely high display refresh rates, improved File Explorer, and more.

A lot happened to Windows in 2025. Microsoft added plenty of new features, but also removed some. Here is everything that the company removed or deprecated. A lot of different things happened to ...

Windows is full of useful features, and new elements are constantly coming into the mix. To be sure, Microsoft’s given us plenty of features that aren’t particularly useful. Some things even blink ...

Editor's take: Microsoft is doubling down on its plan to turn Windows 11 into an "agentic AI" platform, and in the process seems determined to strip away the last bits of user agency left in the OS.

Why it matters: Some Windows users often complain about preinstalled apps that are difficult to remove, resulting in cluttered interfaces, annoying notifications, and sometimes slower performance.

Microsoft’s latest rollouts to Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 include the arrival of Recall and hotpatching. Here are the security settings and recommendations to note. Windows 11 24H2 and ...