Windows 11 is secretly testing a new Windows Run, which is modern and built on new code compared to the legacy Run, but don't ...

Microsoft has taken the rare step of releasing a patch for a handful of legacy operating systems it no longer services after finding a critical vulnerability. The company is warning users to patch ...

Windows 11 users can unlock higher NVMe SSD performance using a hidden Microsoft driver, if they’re willing to tweak. The ...

Touch is the new paradigm, says Paul Jacobs, and older programs will have to adapt to the upcoming, touch-friendly version of the Windows OS. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, ...

Microsoft has announced a new "strategic initiative" aimed at removing legacy drivers from Windows Update to keep the tool secure and reliable. The drivers that will be removed first are ones with ...

The legacy console mode is now a deprecated component that Microsoft no longer updates. The company has published a new message in the official Windows documentation detailing the end of development ...

An application that runs on Windows PCs. Myriad apps fall into this category; essentially every program written for Windows all the way back to 1990 and the first popular version of Windows (Windows 3 ...

Microsoft has started replacing the legacy version of the Edge browser with the new Chromium-based Edge in Windows 10 Dev builds. This change is rolling out to all customers installing Windows 10 ...

Ever since Microsoft first announced that Windows 8 would be compatible with certain ARM system-on-chip processors, questions about what this would mean for existing Windows applications have been ...