Apr 05, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Operational Security A likely lone wolf actor behind the EncryptHub persona was acknowledged by Microsoft […]
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Remembering MS-DOS 5.0, my first Microsoft product, on the company’s 50th birthday
On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The […]
Best Windows apps this week
Six-hundred-forty-one in a series. Welcome to this week’s overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and […]
Microsoft is giving the Windows 11 Start menu a major overhaul — and you’re going to love it!
The creation of the Start menu was revolutionary all those years ago. Since then, Microsoft has, variously, refined, improved, messed […]
Microsoft is finally letting you change the size of taskbar icons in Windows 11
There are many complaints that can be levelled against Windows 11, but a very common one is the number of […]
Microsoft Warns of Tax-Themed Email Attacks Using PDFs and QR Codes to Deliver Malware
Microsoft is warning of several phishing campaigns that are leveraging tax-related themes to deploy malware and steal credentials. “These campaigns […]
Microsoft makes time-saving hotpatching update method available to Windows 11 Enterprise users
Updates to Windows can be important, but they can also be a huge inconvenience. We’re not just talking about the […]
Windows 11 finally gets a proper Start menu with this Quantum upgrade — install it now
If you’ve ever thought that Windows 11 is a little lacking in visual polish, you’re not alone. Microsoft’s decision to […]
There is still a way to use Windows 11 without a Microsoft Account
Microsoft has been gradually shutting down the various ways people found to install and use Windows 11 without a Microsoft […]
PowerToys v0.90.0 is here… and it’s a big release with a great new launcher module
We are, slowly but surely, making our way towards the release of PowerToys v1.0.0 — but in the meantime we […]