Microsoft earlier today, in collaboration with IBM, announced that it is open-sourcing the MS-DOS 4.00 source code. The company has explained what was special about it and how to run it.
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Recently, firmware and chipset support for AMD's next gen Zen 5 (Ryzen 9000) series processors were added. Now, a leak has revealed the alleged specifications of the next-gen Ryzen Strix Halo APUs.
Microsoft may finally be coming clean. With a new hidden change, the tech giant seems to acknowledge that "ads" on the Windows 11 Start menu are real, though it could also mean more ads are coming.
It is one of those rare occasions where Samsung, Amazon, and Newegg, have decided to drop the prices of the 990 Pro SSD, which is one of the fastest PCIe Gen4 SSDs currently available.
Microsoft is looking to display a system requirements cautionary message on Windows 11 24H2 PCs for when such a PC fails to meet the requirements for the upcoming AI-powered File Explorer.
Microsoft recently added a compatibility block wherein very old unsupported CPUs like Intel's Core 2 Duo, are no longer able to bypass Windows 11 system requirements during version 24H2 setup.
Following some welcome discounts on its GPUs, namely, the RX 7900 XT, GRE, and the 7700 XT, AMD has also dropped price of the 12-core Ryzen 5900X to its lowest ever. The 16-core 5950X is cheap too.
Less than a month ago, a one-click trick to bypass the Windows 11 system requirements was discovered. While it was thought to work only on LTSC editions, it turned out to work on other versions too.
A former Microsoft veteran engineer who had worked on multiple major Windows components and features recently shared a story relating to Zip support. Today, more back story about it was shared.
Microsoft recently made an effort to redesign the Windows 11 Start menu due to an overwhelming number of user requests. Following that, the company has improved the design once again.
Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 Beta Build 22635.3500 under KB5036985 today for Insiders. With this new build, the company brings two new features related to Microsoft Account (MSA).
A new Windows 11 build 26100.2 has been quietly released to the Insider channels, Dev and Canary, under KB5037941. The build has no changelog as it is not meant for the regular branch.
Following the recent RX 7900 XT and 7900 GRE sales that we covered, AMD's RX 7700 XT, which originally launched for $449, has now received a price cut and it is currently at least $50 off.
Microsoft has acknowledged that a recent Edge update bug led to the installation of a Copilot app on Windows 11, 10 and Server PCs. The company has assured the intent wasn't to steal user data.
AMD slashed the prices of its RX 7900 XT and GRE once Nvidia revealed its RTX 4000 Super cards. The 7900 XT is now down to one of its lowest prices ever, meanwhile, the GRE is also discounted.
AMD has unveiled today its Ryzen PRO desktop and laptop CPU lineups that are going to be powering the new Microsoft Windows 11 AI PCs. The latter is excited about Pluton security in these PCs.
The Windows Registry is a cool thing to play around with provided you know what you're doing. This little trick helps to switch editions and upgrade from Windows 11 and 10 Home to Professional.
While the non-geeks and non-nerds out there may feel like it's a giant waste of time, a YouTuber managed to port "thousands of apps" back to Windows 95. However, it was no easy thing to do.
Microsoft has blocked Secure Boot mitigations for the BlackLotus (CVE-2023-24932) vulnerability on some PCs. The block affects Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 systems due to incompatibilities with TPM
Microsoft released patches for a couple of Kerberos authentication vulnerabilities tracked under CVE-2024-26248 and CVE-2024-29056. Details about its enforcement timeline have been shared.
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A couple of the biggest vendor partners of AMD, Asus and MSI, have inadvertently revealed some of the early details about the upcoming Zen 5 processors, thanks to firmware and chipset driver updates.
Remember the Spectre CPU vulnerability that reared its head for the first time in 2017? Variant 2 of Spectre is back, and as such, Microsoft has published guidance about the mitigation.
Microsoft recently got slammed by an ex-engineer for the "comically bad" performance of Windows 11. Following that, another former Windows guru has now criticized the company with a dose of sarcasm.
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Microsoft released Windows 10 and 11 Patch Tuesdays for the month of April 2024 this week. Users, however, across both operating systems, are reporting problems, like PC performance slowdown.
The official one may be dead and gone forever, but the unofficial Clippy inside Windows debloater app Winpilot (formerly called BloatyNosyAI) has received several improvements and fixes.
Leaked Windows development builds are always fun to look at as they reveal some of Microsoft's direction and decisions along the way. Today, a new Server 2012 build was shared on the web.
Samsung is offering an interesting offer today as it's giving $70 off on its T7 external SSDs. However, for that, you have to get one of the company' monitors, which includes EyeFinity and Odyssey G9.
A new Windows 11 Release Preview Channel Build 22631.3520 and 22621.3520 under KB5036980 is now available. With this latest build, Microsoft has listed a huge list of improvements and changes.
If you missed out on some of the storage deals on the occasion of the recent World Backup Day 2024, worry not. Seagate still has your back with these 20TB and 18TB CMR-based hard disks (HDDs).
One of the promises Microsoft made about Windows 11 was about the performance benefits it had. A former Microsoft engineer, however, has called Windows 11 out on its "comically bad" performance.
Microsoft has been making lots of changes to the recommended section where it promotes apps and websites. The company may now be looking to add a dedicated button on Windows 11 just for that.
Nearly all motherboard makes were found vulnerable to the LogoFAIL security flaw at the end of last year. And at long last, AMD's vendor partners are finally beginning to roll out patched firmware.
AMD and Intel modern processors just got big boosts in performance thanks to various implementations of AES-XTX that help in disk encryption. For example, Windows BitLocker uses AES-XTX-128.
Microsoft has released new Patch Tuesday updates today for April 2024 on Windows 10 versions 21H2, and 22H2 under KB5036892. There are also updates for older Windows 10 versions too.
There are multiple ways to bypass the system requirements check (those for CPU, TPM, Secure Boot), on Windows 11. Now, a trick has been uncovered to do the same on Windows 11 LTSC too.
The Patch Tuesday updates for the last few months have quietly rolled out a new UCPD driver. This new driver by Microsoft is seemingly intended to block default app switches by Registry hacks.
Following leaked images of a build yesterday, Microsoft has now officially confirmed that the upcoming Windows 11 24H2 LTSC version will formally be known as "Windows 11 LTSC 2024."
Google One VPN services came to Windows around a year and a half ago. However, the service has been found messing with the DNS settings on Windows 11 and 10 users' PCs without much warning.
Microsoft is now quietly pushing the KB5035942 update to users on Windows 11. This release enables Moment 5 features. We speculate a bit on why the company is re-rolling it out to more users now.
If you missed out on some of the great storage deals on the occasion of World Backup Day 2024, worry not. That's because there are still these great late sales live, thanks to Seagate.
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