Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. This update mistake has finally been fixed. Updated on Nov. 5 with ...

When updating a piece of software as large and complex and old as Windows, you’re inevitably going to break something every once in a while. Microsoft tracks known issues here—generally they affect ...

If you've used Windows for long enough, you'll know that it tends to develop "crud" over the months. It accumulates from a ...

My Windows PC doesn't crash as often as it did in the Windows 7 era, and I haven't seen any of those dreaded blue screen of death (BSOD) messages, the one thing you could always count on Windows to ...

A few unfortunate users of the Windows 11 October 2025 update (and Windows Server 2025) may have stumbled upon a critical issue where the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) failed to pick up mouse ...

Support for Windows 10 officially ended October 14th, and since then most users should have already received Extended Security Updates (ESU) if they registered for them. However, for some, the ESU ...