ReactOS, which many refer to as the "open source version of Windows" has reached its 30th birthday. Development on the free ...

Windows security updates tend to conjure thoughts of operating system vulnerabilities, including zero-days, being patched or even unexpected failures with serious consequences. This security update, ...

A former Microsoft developer thinks Windows sucks and explains why. Windows has become a marketing tool to sell Microsoft services. A Microsoft exec calls Windows an agentic OS, with brutal responses.

According to Windows Latest, popular messaging service WhatsApp is downgrading its Windows 11 app to a WebView2 equivalent in the latest update, switching from a native Windows application to a web ...

Released on August 24, 1995, Microsoft Windows 95 was one of the most anticipated software launches at the time. It was a huge change over the previous release Windows 3.1, adding a bunch of new ...

On Thursday, Samsung launched a desktop version of its web browser. Why bother putting its mobile browser on Windows? Well, the company offers a hint in describing Samsung Internet as "evolving from a ...

Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

Fresh options in Windows 11 25H2 let you get fancy with the screen that appears before you log in to your PC and after you lock it. Here’s how to get the most out of widgets on the underutilized lock ...

Google has mostly shied away from making its own native desktop apps — even going so far as to require users to continue loading up a web browser to use tools like ...

Google has so many products that it can be near-impossible to keep track. And yet, the company has rarely created desktop apps to go with those services. There are a handful, like Drive and Quick ...

ESET researchers have identified a new threat actor, whom we have named GhostRedirector, that compromised at least 65 Windows servers mainly in Brazil, Thailand, and Vietnam. GhostRedirector used two ...

WhatsApp recently pushed a new beta update for its Windows application. The update brings one major change – the app no longer runs on Windows native app framework. It now runs on a web version ...