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After months of embracing malware-like tricks so nasty that some fearful Windows 7 users felt forced to disable updates completely, Microsoft is backing off its sneaky Windows 10 upgrade tactics and ...

Microsoft has really been pushing its Windows 10 platform and for good reason. It has an Xbox App, DirectX 12 support, and other nifty gaming features. But it also has the terrifying HAL-like tendency ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

Microsoft took a bit of flak recently when it made the Windows 10 upgrade a “recommended” one for Windows 7 and 8 users, and therefore one that automatically began downloading even if you closed the ...

Microsoft is certainly not winning people over with the way in which it is pushing Windows 10 down users’ throats, and things just got worse. It seems the company is making a series of final pushes ...

Keeping your Windows computer running at peak performance can be tricky, especially for less tech-savvy folks. There are scores of apps out there that claim to be able to help. Unfortunately, many of ...

Beware of an attack that uses modified shortcut icons to trick Windows machines into sharing their network-access rights with a hacked PC. That warning was sounded Tuesday by researchers at data ...