Qualcomm Windows-on-Arm is finally just about good enough to serve as your main PC, thanks to a combination of long-awaited Snapdragon X-series silicon from Qualcomm, […]
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Old and new Ryzen CPUs get a speed boost from optional Windows update – The TechLead
Enlarge / AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X. Andrew Cunningham Among AMD’s explanations for the somewhat underwhelming Ryzen 9000 performance reports from reviewers earlier this month: that […]
Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel – The TechLead
Here’s the Keyboard control panel from Windows NT 4.0. Andrew Cunningham Aside from some updated Windows Vista-era icons, the design of the modern Keyboards panel […]
Google Essentials app to be bundled on new HP Windows PCs, brings back the days of shovelware – The TechLead
In context: Back in the days of shareware and the MS-DOS command prompt, computer magazines and companies sold vast quantities of CD-ROMs filled with software […]
Windows 0-day was exploited by North Korea to install advanced rootkit – The TechLead
Getty Images A Windows zero-day vulnerability recently patched by Microsoft was exploited by hackers working on behalf of the North Korean government so they could […]
Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October – The TechLead
Enlarge / The Recall feature provides a timeline of screenshots and a searchable database of text, thoroughly tracking everything about a person’s PC usage. Microsoft […]
New Windows 11 build removes ancient, arbitrary 32GB size limit for FAT32 disks – The TechLead
Enlarge / If you’ve formatted a disk in Windows in the last 30 years, you may have come across this dialog box. Andrew Cunningham As […]
Microsoft backs off on pressuring upgrades to Windows 10 – The TechLead
Microsoft has announced that it will ease up the aggressive add tactic to get Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 after receiving negative […]
Windows 365 — Microsoft’s cloud-based OS explained – Computerworld – The TechLead
There are 13 virtual machine configurations available. The most basic (two cores, 4GB of memory and 64GB of storage) costs $28 per user per month; […]
Paint 3D to be retired as Microsoft continues streamlining Windows apps – The TechLead
What just happened? Redmond is officially pulling the plug on its modern art app later this year. Users have reported seeing a new banner at […]