Telemetry is not a four-letter word. You wouldn't know that to listen to the relentless hammering of the technology by Windows 10 critics, who see it as a form of "spying" on the part of Microsoft.

With the Windows 8.1 Update, Microsoft shrank the Windows 8.1 install footprint to make it suitable for low-cost tablets with just 16GB of permanent storage, a ...

Microsoft has published the full range of data that Windows 10 version 1703, the Creators Update, will collect in its default “basic” telemetry setting. The company has also provided details on the ...

As of 2024, Windows now collects more data about you than ever before, and it’s a real point of concern for privacy enthuasists. It’s not just that the recently announced Recall feature is a privacy ...

Microsoft's ReFS file system offers superior data protection and massive 35-petabyte volume support, but Windows 11 users can ...

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Microsoft is open-sourcing its cloud-compression algorithm and optimized hardware implementation for cloud storage. Microsoft is contributing that algorithm, known as ""=""> plus the associated ...

Missing folders? Unreadable files? Corrupted hard drive? Sooner or later, most PC users lose data of some kind. Here’s a series of steps you can take in Windows 11 (or 10) to bring things back. Sadly, ...

Optimizing data compression methods has become more critical than ever for cloud storage, data management, and streaming applications. Working with compressed data reduces network bandwidth, data ...