I was reviewing social media and saw a satire post that made me chuckle…. I just got fired from Microsoft. I was the guy responsible for making sure that when you start typing your password in on the Windows lock screen, it ignores your first keystroke for no reason. The main reason it does this […]

ISSUE 23.24 • 2026-06-15 WINDOWS 11 By Martin Brinkmann Without a single warning, Microsoft may quietly hijack your local files and hold them hostage in the cloud to upsell you a OneDrive subscription. With a few steps, you can break the link and reclaim your data. Do a quick experiment right now. Open File Explorer, […]

WINDOWS 11 By Lance Whitney Among all the VM programs I’ve tried, VMware Workstation Pro remains my favorite. Here’s why. As a freelance technology writer, I typically have to review or test different apps, settings, and features in Windows. And I need to be able to do this without impacting my main Windows environment. I […]

WINDOWS 11 By Lance Whitney Built into the Windows Professional and Enterprise editions, Hyper-V provides a virtual environment in which you can work with different versions of Windows and check out unknown or untested apps and features. As a technology writer, I often need to review and test different apps, settings, and other features in […]

The issue with Windows 11 KB5083769 causing problems with various backup software is exposing something else that is concerning to me. Something in the monthly patching processes is performing an aggressive disk clean-up process of Windows update files. As a result, many of you – too many, frankly – are reporting that you don’t see […]

ISSUE 23.17 • 2026-04-27 Look for our BONUS issue on May 4, 2026!! WINDOWS 11 By Lance Whitney A virtual machine provides the freedom and flexibility to work with different versions of Windows and play with new or untested apps and features. As a technology writer and journalist, I often have to test and review […]

WINDOWS 11 By Martin Brinkmann Here’s a surprising speed boost for everyday, heavy-duty tasks. It works on many Windows setups and costs nothing. When Microsoft rolled out Dev Drive for Windows 11 back in 2023, it slapped a massive “For Developers Only” sign on the feature. The pitch was that enterprise programmers compiling millions of […]

PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley Is Microsoft finally listening? We’ve been through this rodeo before. We’ve seen vendors make changes and then pull back, only to make changes once again. So which vendor has decided to do a mea culpa and perhaps bend a bit to its customer base? Microsoft. In the recent Windows Insider […]

WINDOWS 11 By Will Fastie Unaccountably, Microsoft has lost its UI mojo. It’s not surprising that the Windows Start menu gets a lot of attention whenever it changes. It’s a highly visible feature of Windows’ overall user interface. No one can escape the need to use Start from time to time, even when some of […]

PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley Businesses will be happy to learn that the March updates include no new zero-day bugs. A zero day is a security issue that is under active attack as of Patch Tuesday. This means that unpatched systems are potentially vulnerable. However, you know from my past patch-risk analyses that zero days […]