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Google finally cutting off Chrome updates on Windows XP and Vista

\ Windows XP will be getting even less secure next year, when Google stops updating Chrome for users of Microsoft’s nearly geriatric operating system. The company announced today that PCs running XP and Vista will be able to keep using Chrome after April 2016, but Google will

Latest Windows 10 preview looks to extend your Surface’s battery life

A new Windows 10 preview build landed last Thursday, but then this weekend just gone, Microsoft pushed out another preview hot on its heels – indicating that testing work is intensifying as the Anniversary Update approaches (it’s due on August 2). Build 14385 was unleashed at the

Critics denounce Home windows 10 improve changes as PR ploy

Commenters have scoffed at Microsoft’s backtracking from a widely-criticized exercise to trick users into upgrading to Home windows 10, arguing that it changed into nothing greater than a public relations ploy employed while the loose upgrade changed into simply weeks from expiring. Smartphones tablet cellular devices cellular

Why face up to? Get Windows 10 while it’s nonetheless loose

What are you expecting? There are few motives left to withstand Microsoft’s Home windows 10 update, in particular while it’s nonetheless free. Wait any other month, and it’s going to cost you $120 . Due to the fact that Windows 10 came out nearly a year in

Firmware take advantage of can defeat new Windows safety functions on Lenovo ThinkPads

A newly released make the most can disable the write safety of critical firmware regions in Lenovo ThinkPads and probable laptops from other companies as well. Many new Home windows security features, like Comfortable Boot, Virtual Comfortable Mode and Credential Defend, rely upon the low-level firmware being

How to get Bash running on Windows

Unix command line users around the world rejoiced when Microsoft announced recently it would be bringing the popular Bash shell to Windows 10 with a forthcoming update. Last Wednesday, the company released a beta build of its operating system that finally had support for the new functionality.

Dear Windows, OS X folks: Update Flash now. Or kill it. Killing it works

Adobe has published new versions of Flash to patch a vulnerability being exploited right now by hackers to hijack PCs and Macs. The APSB16-10 update addresses a total of 24 CVE-listed flaws, including one (CVE-2016-1019) that’s been exploited in the wild to inject malware into Microsoft Windows

Microsoft is boosting security through Windows 10 hardware

The burden of Microsoft’s efforts to secure Windows 10 is now falling on PC, tablet and smartphone makers. Microsoft is making a hardware-based security feature called TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 2.0 a minimum requirement on most Windows 10 devices. Starting July 28, the company will require device

Mud sticks: Microsoft, Windows 10 and reputational damage

  Windows 10 isn’t the saviour of the PC industry after all – and is beginning to look more like a Windows Vista than a Windows XP. PC growth predictions have been revised down by IDC. A range of companies including HP Ink andNorthamber blame Windows 10

Try the Windows 10 Anniversary Update before it’s released

Microsoft showed off some fancy new Windows 10 features at its Build developer conference last week, and now we’re just starting to see them slowly trickle out in the latest Insider build. Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14316 brings a heap of updates and new features –