Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. “Reset and recovery operations on some Windows versions might fail,” ...

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 ...

In brief: Microsoft's latest update to Windows 11, version 24H2, began rolling out earlier this month. Chief among the improvements is a speedier update process. The new version is a significant step ...

Windows 11 is not without its bugs, quirks, and weirdness, and every once in a while, Microsoft fixes some of these issues to give users a much-needed respite. In June of this year, the company killed ...

What just happened? Another day, another security flaw discovered in Microsoft Windows. The latest arrives courtesy of research presented at the Black Hat security conference, which revealed a design ...

Windows has improved significantly as an operating system over the past four decades, evolving from the MS-DOS architecture to the more modern Windows NT kernel. Over this period, it has undergone ...

Microsoft has released a PowerShell script to automate updating the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) partition in order to fix CVE-2024-20666, a vulnerability that allowed for BitLocker encryption ...