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It looks like Microsoft has hit a massive wall. People just aren’t switching to Windows 11 as fast as the company hoped. In fact, the move is happening way slower than the shift from Windows 7 to ...

Microsoft has released the KB5072753 out-of-band cumulative update to fix a known issue causing the November 2025 KB5068966 hotpatch update to reinstall on Windows 11 systems repeatedly. As the ...

Windows 11 is a solid operating system that offers some benefits over its predecessors. It features a fresh design, solid gaming performance, and offers much better multitasking over the prior version ...

It's official: Windows 10 is dead. Although it had a decent run as far as operating systems go (10 years; it came out in 2015) continued use is inadvisable. A system not receiving security updates ...

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Windows 10 holdouts, unfortunately, are going to have to upgrade to the newest version of the operating system soon. That's because the end is nigh for Windows 10, and Microsoft doesn't want anyone to ...

Microsoft is tightening the reins on new installations of Windows 11 with stricter Microsoft account requirements. As participants in the Windows Insider Program have ...

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