An N-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word exposes nearly 14 million assets. Attackers can exploit this flaw to bypass security prompts, enabling deployment of malware and establishing persistent access ...

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You’d think “turning it off and on again” would be the solution to a computer glitch. But for thousands of Windows users right now, the “off” part isn’t happening. Microsoft has confirmed that a ...

Editor's take: Microsoft's push to turn Windows into a showcase for generative AI and chatbots is colliding with a far more immediate concern: reliability. Over the past two years, users have been ...

Bowing to user backlash, Microsoft eventually relented and implemented a one-year Windows 10 support-extension scheme. But (limited duration) lifelines are meaningless if they’re DOA. The bottom line: ...

If you’ve been following our coverage for the last few years, you’ll already know that 2025 is the year that Windows 10 died. Technically. “Died,” because Microsoft’s formal end-of-support date came ...

TL;DR: Microsoft ended security updates for Windows 10 in October, leaving around 1 billion PCs at increased risk. While 500 million devices can upgrade to Windows 11, many delay due to strict ...

Microsoft says it will add a new Teams call handler beginning in January 2026 to reduce launch times and boost call performance for the Windows desktop client. A new process, ms-teams_modulehost.exe, ...

From October 14, 2025, Microsoft is no longer supporting Windows 10 with new features, troubleshooting aids, or security updates. That's because Microsoft follows a ten-year lifecycle support policy ...

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...

It didn’t take long for some IT leaders who last month started paying to get Windows 10 security updates to face their first support problem. Microsoft said the update issued last week on November ...

Support for Windows 10 officially ended October 14th, and since then most users should have already received Extended Security Updates (ESU) if they registered for them. However, for some, the ESU ...