Note: This is an early peek at a chapter from my next book, De-Enshittify Windows 11. This book will be available for ...

Microsoft has blocked credential autofill on Windows 11 to address CVE-2026-20804, a Windows Hello vulnerability allowing biometric injection attacks.

Here's how to make sure all the personal files and other data on your storage drive are erased and unrecoverable, whether you ...

When Microsoft patched a vulnerability last summer that allowed threat actors to use Windows’ shortcut (.lnk) files in ...

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 ...

Complaining about Windows 11 is a popular sport among tech enthusiasts on the Internet, whether you’re publicly switching to Linux, publishing guides about the dozens of things you need to do to make ...

Windows 11 hit the milestone in the recent holiday quarter. Windows 11 hit the milestone in the recent holiday quarter. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

TL;DR: Windows 11 initially led the market with 58.18% share in October 2025 but declined to 50.7% by December, while Windows 10's share rose to 44.6%. This shift reflects millions of users amid ...

Windows 11 lost market share in December, dropping to 50.73% while Windows 10 gained ground to 44.68%, according to StatCounter data. The reversal came two months after Microsoft ended Windows 10 ...

X is putting its money where its mouth is. The Elon Musk-owned social media platform just pledged it will give $1 million to the user who creates the most popular long-form post using its newly ...

Operating systems collect data in different ways. Linux distributions are transparent about that collection. Canonical's making some changes to how it collects information. Telemetry: the in situ ...

Khamosh Pathak is a freelance tech journalist with over 13 years of experience writing online. An accounting graduate, he turned his interest in writing and technology into a career. He holds a ...