Last September, Microsoft showed off Windows 8 in public for the first time. One glance at the operating-system upgrade–heavily influenced by the company’s inventive Windows Phone–was enough to tell ...

Follow my expert advice to make your Windows 11 PC faster, regardless of its age or specs, without compromising the appearance and functionality of the OS.

PCWorld explores how older PCs can potentially upgrade to Windows 11 through strategic hardware replacements, despite Microsoft’s strict compatibility requirements. This matters as Windows 10 support ...

Firefox is saying goodbye at the end of February.

Secure Boot has relied on the same security certificates to verify bootloaders since 2011, during the development cycle for Windows 8. But those original certificates are set to expire in June and ...

PCMag.com’s Michael Muchmore has helpfully performed an array of speed tests of various sorts on the Release Preview of Windows 8, comparing it to Windows 7. The news is mostly good: Windows 8, which ...

If you’ve had your PC for a while or are issued a laptop for work, it can be difficult to gauge whether your PC is up to speed compared to other PCs. But there’s a quick method I use to find this out: ...

Microsoft's Secure Boot certificates expire in June, and unless you've enrolled in its 'Extended Security Updates' program, ...

Mozilla notes, "most browsers, including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, have already ended support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1." ...