Ever since it announced Windows 11, Microsoft has been emphasizing that the OS would only run officially on certain hardware. Redmond often struggles with coherent messaging, as evidenced by both the Windows 11 launch and the 2013 launch of the Xbox One. But there is a specific and particular point…
Windows 11 is just around the corner, and Microsoft is not playing games when it comes to hardware requirements. It has limited which CPUs and security features you need before upgrading to Windows 11, and the PC Health Check app has been the primary way to know whether your system…
As of today, Microsoft is offering people the option to remove passwords from their Microsoft accounts, provided you don’t use certain features or applications on a regular basis. “For the past couple of years, we’ve been saying that the future is passwordless, and today I am excited to announce the…
Most people have probably used Microsoft’s Edge browser, but the majority of them are probably only doing so to download another browser. Microsoft doesn’t make it particularly easy to switch the defaults in Windows 10, and Windows 11 is set to make it even harder. Mozilla has apparently had enough.…
Microsoft took the wraps off Windows 11 a few months ago, but it didn’t have a firm timeline for rolling out the new software. Now, it does. Microsoft says Windows 11 will start hitting compatible PCs on Oct. 5. However, you might have to wait much, much longer to install…
Windows users around the world were looking warily at their Razer peripherals earlier this week. That’s when a security researcher noted the devices could be used to gain administrator privileges on Windows, and it turns out Razer is not alone. The same vulnerability exists in the SteelSeries ecosystem. Simply plugging…
(Image is from Moana, rendered via Intel OSPray, an open-source ray tracing engine.) Intel has hired Anton Kaplanyan to help drive the company’s ray tracing efforts and overall graphics research. Kaplanyan has devoted his career to ray tracing and researching various other types of rendering improvements. While he worked on…
Microsoft recently announced the product we’ve all been wanting it to make for years: a full version of Windows running in the cloud, known as Windows 365. While the service is currently only available to businesses, Microsoft has encountered extraordinary demand. Only days after opening up free trials of Windows…
Microsoft is taking a big step today with Windows 365. No, it hasn’t skipped from Windows 11 all the way to 365. This is Microsoft’s new cloud PC platform, which will allow businesses to run Windows desktops online for easy access from myriad devices. Virtualization and remote access are nothing…
Android has grown to become the largest computing platform on the planet, and that makes it a target. You can’t spend much time on the internet without hearing about some new piece of Android malware that’s going to definitely, 100 percent wreck your phone. These reports are always based in fact,…