Windows articles

Lenovo's Legion Go S handheld gets a steep discount to $549

Nvidia RTX Spark CPU is now official: "superchip" will power Windows laptops and desktops

Why it matters: Nvidia just announced what it calls the most efficient PC chip ever built. RTX Spark is a Grace Blackwell system on a chip, 70 billion transistors on TSMC 3nm, with a Blackwell RTX GPU, a 20-core Arm CPU built with MediaTek, and up to 128GB of unified memory. It is purpose-built for agents, and it runs full RTX gaming and creation on the same thin-and-light laptop. It is a genuinely impressive piece of silicon.

Someone got 26 years of Windows running on a classic IBM ThinkPad T43 without a virtual machine

Windows can now share audio to two Bluetooth headphones at once, sort of

Microsoft is rolling out its Windows 11 CPU-boosting update – here's how to enable it

Windows Secure Boot certificates set to expire in June – here's what it means for your PC

Microsoft's latest Copilot idea is a pinnable sidebar that steals your screen real estate

A Windows 11 speed boost is coming as soon as next month, along with a taskbar you can finally move

FluentCleaner brings back the classic PC cleaner idea, without the bloat

A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

Microsoft is finally fixing Windows Update's habit of downgrading your GPU drivers without asking

Windows is getting a cloud feature that fixes bad drivers before they wreck your PC

Winhanced aims to make Windows gaming PCs feel more like a console

Microsoft is adding a feature that briefly maxes out your CPU to make Windows feel snappier

Cutting corners: Microsoft has a giant Windows problem, but developers are reportedly hard at work to significantly improve the operating system in critical areas, tackling things like overall responsiveness and CPU utilization. New details have emerged about one of those changes.

PowerToys 0.99.1 boosts multi-monitor management

Microsoft's "Windows K2" plan promises a faster Start menu, instant search, and fewer botched updates

Windows Insiders can now pause updates indefinitely, in 35-day increments

Microsoft says Windows 11 changes are "directly influenced" by users

What was the first OS you ever used?

Researchers warn Microsoft Defender vulnerability is already being exploited

Microsoft counters MacBook Neo with free Game Pass and Office bundle on Windows laptops

Microsoft is removing 32GB size limit for FAT32 volumes, this time for real

Mozilla says Microsoft is using Copilot and Edge to tighten its grip on Windows

Editor's take: As Microsoft builds Copilot AI deeper into Windows, the move is rekindling debate over how much control any one company should exercise over the computing environment that so many people rely on. For Mozilla, that question has become a renewed challenge to Microsoft's dominance over the desktop and its implications for competition.

France starts moving government systems from Windows to Linux

The big picture: European governments have long sought to reduce their dependency on non-European (i.e., American) software. While individual municipalities and government sectors have recently begun switching to homegrown options, France's latest announcement signals a broader shift away from tools such as Windows, Microsoft Office, Zoom, and Google Docs.

Microsoft OneDrive users report mysterious spam files that won't go away