Microsoft promised a bold new era for Windows—but years later, many of its most hyped features have quietly stalled, vanished, or failed to impress.

The Windows 11 non-security feature preview update for February just landed, and it's the first in a while that includes a ...

Both acrylic and glass windowed blocks were placed inside a grey plastic crate, submerged in water, and then pumped to within an inch of their lives to see what sort of internal pressure they could ...

Microsoft has issued its second emergency patch of the month. The new patch fixes a bug that affects cloud-based services. But another bug is preventing some Windows PCs from booting up. This year has ...

Windows users are in the crosshairs after a critical vulnerability in Zoom was actively exploited. The flaw, which affects multiple Zoom products on Windows, allows attackers to quietly escalate ...

TL;DR: Resourceful hackers have been running Doom, or ports of the original source code, on countless, most unlikely devices. Anything with a processor goes, from calculators to kitchen appliances, ...

In games, nothing breaks player flow like a loading screen, and in virtual reality this problem is amplified tenfold. ‘Presence’ or ‘immersion’, the magical yet fragile feeling of ‘being there’, is ...

TL;DR: Microsoft's Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows 11 offers a console-like, controller-friendly gaming interface that boots directly into the Xbox app, optimizing system resources and ...

During the recent Xbox Partner Preview, Microsoft announced several upcoming Xbox and PC games, but also highlighted that the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) would be rolling out to all PC gaming ...

Microsoft is also testing its new Xbox full screen mode with regular Windows 11 PCs. Microsoft is also testing its new Xbox full screen mode with regular Windows 11 PCs. is a senior editor and author ...

Windows Edge Light tries to improve your look on video calls. The app places a light ring around your screen with more ambient light. Edge Light works best in an area without other forms of lighting.