When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

The era of Windows 10 support ended on Oct. 14 of last year. After more than a decade, Microsoft is prioritizing updates for the latest OS, Windows 11, and has thus stopped providing security updates ...

Microsoft has released the KB5075039 Windows Recovery Environment update for Windows 10 to fix a long-standing issue that prevented some users from accessing the Recovery environment. The Windows ...

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Catch up with this week's Microsoft stories in our weekly recap, including Microsoft killing an old Windows activation method, Windows 11 crushing Windows 10 on Steam, and more. This week's news recap ...

If you’ve been following our coverage for the last few years, you’ll already know that 2025 is the year that Windows 10 died. Technically. “Died,” because Microsoft’s formal end-of-support date came ...

Microsoft ended support for Windows 10—including security updates—on October 14, 2025. It's possible to keep using Windows 10 safely for a few more years, but I don't think it's worth the hassle.

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