Windows Phone 8.1 is the follow up to Windows Phone 8, which rolled out to devices rather quickly. Despite it’s strengths, Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 platform is not without its flaws. In this ...

Millions of users have either upgraded to or purchased new PCs that come with Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system. The operating system is the best Microsoft has offered in a while, mixing things ...

With such a complex mix of different devices and software out there, occasional problems with our smartphones are inevitable, but there’s usually a way around them. We’ve been digging into some ...

Half of Windows 10 users surveyed by consumer group Which? said they had experienced PC problems as a result of the operating system upgrade, with software and hardware compatibility problems topping ...

Picked up by the eagle-eyed WinCentral, Microsoft’s long-awaited fix for Windows 10’s File Explorer issues (KB4532695) is now causing a wide array of new problems itself, including broken audio, slow ...

ZDNET's key takeaways You can run a report to check battery health in Windows 11.This report provides details on capacity, cycle counts, and more.If your battery is nearing the end of its life, it can ...

The Free Windows 10 Upgrade Offer wrapped up in 2016, but upgrades to the operating system continue. Windows 10 upgrade problems persist too. Some of these Windows 10 upgrade problems are widespread.

This Windows 10 Health Report provides an overview of the problems people are encountering in September 2020 due to new cumulative updates or changes made in the operating system. Every month, ...

[This article was originally published in September 2015. It has been extensively revised and updated since then. The most recent revision was August 29, 2016.] In June 2016, a month before the free ...

A free update Windows 10 might be, but it's giving some people - me included - a massive headache. So far I've updated two laptops, a tablet and my main desktop to the stable release of Windows 10.

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Microsoft plans to end support for several products in 2026, and the list of those products also includes Windows 11 24H2.