Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10 last October. Many PCs with Windows 10 don't pass Microsoft's strict requirement check. It's possible to bypass this and ...

PCWorld highlights Smart App Control, a crucial Windows 11 security feature that screens apps through Microsoft’s cloud service to protect against malware and compromised executables. A February 2026 ...

Windows 11 has officially reached 1 billion users in under 4 years and 4 months, surpassing Windows 10’s adoption timeline by several months. PCWorld reports this 45% year-over-year growth was driven ...

Microsoft is previewing an open-source command-line tool designed to speed up Windows application development, testing, and delivery.

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If Security Center is turned off or missing, Windows cannot correctly show your protection status in the Windows Security app. This usually means the ...

It's officially time to let go. Windows 10 has been over as we know it for some time now, only for Windows 11 to have taken over. To finalize things even further, Microsoft ended support for the ...

Microsoft is warning that the June expiration of software certificates will put those still using Windows 10 in an even more vulnerable state. The software certificates deal with a feature called ...