Microsoft no longer officially supports Windows 10, so do this if you want to keep using your older PC securely.

Microsoft's 2026 end-of-support documentation outlines a wide range of programs and Windows versions slated for retirement over the coming months. While these products will continue to ...

Microsoft is stepping up its plans to make Windows more resilient to buggy software after a botched CrowdStrike update took down millions of PCs and servers in a global IT outage. The tech giant has ...

Toggle the Real-time protection switch off. You may receive a User Account Control (UAC) prompt asking if you want to allow the change to occur. Select Yes. When you're ready to turn system protection ...

In the aftermath of the devastating CrowdStrike outage this July, Microsoft vowed to do better even though it insisted that the event was an aberration. Evidently unwilling to take chances (or risk ...

Windows 10 is no longer going to receive free security updates in the future, but that doesn't mean you have to update to ...

On January 15, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates sent out a companywide e-mail telling his minions to make security their No. 1 priority. Since then, the Colossus of Redmond has hired dozens of new ...

European Union regulators are reportedly investigating Microsoft Corp. over limiting customers from using competing security software and its investment in artificial intelligence company Mistral AI.

European security software makers are closely, but quietly, watching as Microsoft enters their turf. Companies such as F-Secure, Panda Software and Sophos are taking a low-key approach, unlike their U ...

Another Microsoft Corp. security rival posted results today of tests claiming that Windows Defender, Microsoft’s antispyware software, blocked only a portion of the malware thrown at it. The trials, ...