Windows Stories for 2018

Microsoft Announces Windows Sandbox, a Desktop Environment For Running Applications in Isolation 116
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Comes To Windows 10 in the Form of WLinux Enterprise 124
Regular Windows 10 Users Who Manually Look For Updates May End Up Downloading Beta Code, Microsoft Says 115
Microsoft Is Readying a Consumer Microsoft 365 Subscription Bundle 92
Snapdragon 8cx Gives Windows Its Most Extreme Arm Chip Yet 38
Microsoft's Designers Are Now Working Together on the Future of Windows, Office and Surface 115
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 For Windows and Mac; Open-Sources WPF, Forms and WinUI 72
Microsoft is Working On a New Iteration of Windows To Take On ChromeOS, Report Says 161
Microsoft is Building a Chromium-powered Web Browser That Will Replace Edge on Windows 10: Report 377
Intel Publishes Its First Modern Windows Driver for PCs 78
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements 205
Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 Apps In General 200
That Time The Windows Kernel Fought Gamma Rays Corrupting Its Processor Cache 166
Microsoft, Google and Qualcomm Working On Chrome For Windows On ARM 53
Microsoft Pulls Some Non-Security Updates For Microsoft Office 2010, 2013 and 2016 That It Released Earlier This Month 58
'Windows Isn't a Service, It's an Operating System' 445
Dutch Government Report Says Microsoft Office Telemetry Collection Breaks EU GDPR Laws 87
Microsoft is Testing Ads in Mail App For Windows 10 in Select Markets 150
Microsoft Store Starts Accepting Windows 10 on ARM Apps 35
Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? 189
Microsoft Resumes Rollout of Windows 10 Version 1809, Promises Quality Changes 139
Microsoft Launches Free AV1 Video Codec For Windows 10 48
As Windows Becomes a Service, Microsoft Needs To Be Transparent About Issues With That Service To Customers. In Recent Weeks, It Has Failed Miserably at That. 158
Some Windows 10 Pro Users Say Their PCs Are No Longer Activated And Are Been Prompted To Downgrade To Windows 10 Home 271
WLinux, the First Paid-for Linux Distro for Windows 10, Goes On Sale on Microsoft Store 207
Microsoft's Cortana Boss Javier Soltero Is Leaving the Company 31
Ask Slashdot: What Happened To the Prank Apps That Used To Be Popular? 134
You Can Play Over 2,600 Windows Games on Linux Via Steam Play 106
Windows Defender Becomes First Antivirus To Run Inside a Sandbox 110
Microsoft Says It Has Resolved an Issue With Bing Which Was Causing It To Push Malware When Users Searched for Chrome 101
New Windows Zero-Day Bug Helps Delete Any File, Exploit Available 74
Microsoft's Problem Isn't How Often it Updates Windows -- It's How It Develops It 227
Bill Gates Honors Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen: He 'Changed My Life' 59
Windows 10 Will Banish Spectre Slowdowns With Google's Retpoline Patch 61
Latest Windows 10 Update Has Yet Another File-Managing Issue 177
Winamp 5.8, the First Update In 4 Years, Is Released 198
Microsoft Making More of the Windows 10 Built-In Apps Removable 82
Samsung Announces Galaxy Book 2, a 2-in-1 Windows 10 S Hybrid With Gigabit LTE and 20-Hour Battery Life 78
Researcher Finds Simple Way of Backdooring Windows PCs and Nobody Notices for Ten Months 94
Microsoft Passes Acer To Become Top 5 PC Vendors In the US 49
Microsoft Rereleases Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Fixes Data Deletion Bug 79
Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 October Update 139
Windows 10 October 2018 Update is Deleting User Data For Many 210
Microsoft Is Embracing Android As the Mobile Version of Windows 76
Microsoft Now Has the Best Device Lineup in the Industry 219
Microsoft Announces App Mirroring To Let You Use Any Android App On Windows 10 59
Windows 10 October 2018 Update Is Now Available; Features 'Your Phone' Android Messaging App, Dark Theme For File Explorer, and Other Tweaks 67
Microsoft Will End Support For Skype Classic In November 51
Windows 10 Passes 700 Million Devices 113
Microsoft To Bring Multi-User Virtualization To Windows, Office With Windows Virtual Desktop Service 83
Despite Outrage From Users, Microsoft Continues To Install Bloatware Applications Onto Every Windows 10 PC 490
New Custom Linux Distro is Systemd-Free, Debian-Based, and Optimized for Windows 10 165
'WaitList.dat' Windows File May Be Secretly Hoarding Your Passwords, Emails 40
Microsoft Windows U-turn Removes Warning About Installing Chrome, Firefox 100
Windows, Linux Kodi Users Infected With Cryptomining Malware 58
Windows 10 Will Use the Cloud To Free Up Disk Space 204
Windows 7 Will Get Updates for Four More Years -- If You Pay 188
Is Chrome OS Threatening Windows? 312
Is Windows Coming To Chromebooks? 52
Microsoft Announces Windows 10 October 2018 Update, the Next Free Major Update To Its Desktop OS 138
Microsoft Obliquely Acknowledges Windows 0-day Bug Published on Twitter 66
Windows 95 Is Now An App You Can Download and Install On macOS, Windows, and Linux 183
Steam Gets Built-in Tools To Let You Run Windows Games on Linux -- Now Available in Beta 206
Microsoft Prepares To Kill the Windows 8 Store: No New Apps From November 86
Valve Seems To Be Working On Tools To Get Windows Games Running On Linux 196
Slashdot Asks: Did You Have a Shared Family Computer Growing Up? 200
Chromebooks May Get Apple Boot Camp-Like Windows 10 Dual Boot With 'Campfire' 95
Windows 10 Enterprise Getting 'InPrivate Desktop' Sandboxed Execution Feature 99
Microsoft Won't Force You To Use the New Skype Just Yet 94
Windows 10 Buggy Updates? Our Patching is Simple, Regular, and Consistent, Says Microsoft 197
Surface Go Reviews Are All Over the Place 98
Windows 10 Continues To Close in On Windows 7 210
With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It 597
German State Plans To Migrate 13,000 Workstations From Linux to Windows 325
Microsoft Says Price Increases Coming For Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise Users 136
Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying 277
ReactOS 0.4.9 Is Entirely Self-Hosting, Fixes FastFAT Crashes 200
Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 To Support True UTC-Compliant Leap Second 67
Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better 328
DOD Seeks Classification 'Clippy' To Help Classify Data, Control Access 62
New Microsoft Surface Hardware Is Arriving Tomorrow 73
Malware Authors Seem Intent on Weaponizing Windows SettingContent-ms Files 50
ComputerWorld Says Newest Windows 10 'Isn't Ready for Prime Time' 200
Microsoft Details Secret 'Pocketable' Surface Device 92
Microsoft Removes 'Sets' Tabbed Windows Feature From Next Release 133
Microsoft Quietly Cuts Off Windows 7 Support For Older Intel Computers 383
Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here 364
Hundreds of Thousands of Windows XP and Vista Users Won't Be Able To Use Steam Soon 484
A Vulnerability in Cortana, Now Patched, Allowed Attacker To Access a Locked Computer, Change Its Password 59
Microsoft Explains How it Decides Whether a Vulnerability Will Be Patched Swiftly or Left For a Version Update 45
Microsoft To Stop Offering Support For Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Old Surface Devices in Forums 156
How Microsoft's Windows Red Team Keeps PCs Safe 83
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 850 Platform Targeted For Windows 10 PCs 59
Microsoft Is Talking About Acquiring GitHub, Says Report 164
Dell is Reportedly Working on a Dual-Screen Windows ARM Device 35
Windows Server 2016 Has an Update Problem, Users Say 79
Windows 10 Pro Is a Dead End For the Enterprise, Gartner Says 218
Windows 10 Spring Update Improves Linux On WSL With Unix Sockets and More 216
Rollout of Windows 10 April Update Halted For Devices With Intel and Toshiba SSDs 89
Microsoft To Launch a Line of Lower-Cost Surface Tablets With 10-inch Displays By Second Half of 2018, Report Says 75
One Year After WannaCry, EternalBlue Exploit Is Bigger Than Ever 62
Microsoft Works To Port Ubuntu To Windows ARM 107
Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings 291
Microsoft's New Mobile Strategy: Create Windows-like App 'Experiences' For Smartphones 74
Microsoft Says 700M Devices Now Run Windows 10 120
Microsoft's 'Meltdown' Patch For Windows 10 Contains a Fatal Flaw 106
Windows 10 Is Finally Getting An Improved Screenshot Tool 143
Ask Slashdot: Any Idiosyncrasies of the New Windows 10 April 2018 Update? 149
Google Chrome is Freezing Intermittently With the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Users Say 183
Code Published for Triggering a BSOD on Windows Computers -- Even If They're Locked 118
Windows 10 April 2018 Update is Coming On April 30 214
iTunes Now Available From the Microsoft Store For Windows 10 26
Microsoft Plans Version of Windows 10 For Devices With Limited Storage 142
E-Waste Innovator Will Go To Jail For Making Windows Restore Disks That Only Worked With Valid Licenses 426
Surface Phone Speculation Spurred By New Phone APIs In Windows 77
Microsoft Readies Windows 10 April Update With New Features and Enhancements 109
Hacking a Satellite is Surprisingly Easy 199
Microsoft Developers Hid a Secret Puzzle in Windows Backgrounds as They Knew Images Would Leak 44
Microsoft Drops OneNote From Office, Pushes Users To Windows 10 Version 72
Chrome 66 Arrives With Autoplaying Content Blocked By Default 88
Windows 10 Update Will Support More Password-Free Logins 66
Microsoft Delays Windows 10 Spring Creators Update Because of 'Higher Percentage of BSODs' 108
Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service 199
ReactOS 0.4.8 Released 60
Microsoft Windows 10 Gains Linux/WSL Console Copy and Paste Functionality 168
Microsoft Discovers Blocking Bug and Delays the Release of Windows 10 Spring Creators Update 83
Microsoft Removes Antivirus Registry Key Check for All Windows Versions 49
Microsoft Open-Sources Original File Manager From the 1990s So It Can Run On Windows 10 173
Is Microsoft Trying To Make Windows 10 Mail Worse? 232
Ask Slashdot: Do You Miss Windows Phone? 284
Microsoft Open Source Tool Lets You 'Bring Your Own Linux' To Windows 135
Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole In Windows Defender 71
Microsoft Will Bring 64-Bit App Support To ARM-Based PCs In May 71
Microsoft Is 'Demoting' Windows for the Cloud, Says CNN 127
Microsoft Issues Out-Of-Band Security Update To Patch a Meltdown Patch It Released Earlier This Year 36
Microsoft's Longtime Windows Boss Terry Myerson To Leave the Company Amid a Huge Executive Reorganization 130
Microsoft's Windows 7 Meltdown Fixes From January and February Made PCs More Insecure 84
Microsoft Releases New Tool To Get More Distros on Windows 216
Windows Server 2019 Will Feature Linux and Kubernetes Support 99
Microsoft Says Windows 10 Spring Creators Update Will Install in 30 Minutes 173
Microsoft Brings Native HEIF Support to Windows 10 152
Ghana's Windows Blackboard Teacher And His Students Have a Rewarding Outcome 82
Microsoft Wants To Force Windows 10 Mail Users To Use Edge For Email Links 172
Microsoft Removes Antivirus Registry Key Check for Windows 10 Users 38
Microsoft Admits It Updated Some Windows 10 Computers To Newest Build Despite Users Telling It Not To Do That 137
Windows 10's Next Update Will Be Called 'Spring Creators Update' 92
Windows 10 Is Finally Adding Tabs To File Explorer 161
Researchers Bypassed Windows Password Locks With Cortana Voice Commands 90
Ask Slashdot: Should We Worry Microsoft Will 'Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish' Linux? 431
Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 'S Mode' 90
Chrome 65 Arrives With Material Design Extensions Page, New Developer Features 34
Kali Linux For WSL Now Available in the Windows Store 69
Chrome On Windows Ditches Microsoft's Compiler, Now Uses Clang 94
Windows Phone 8.1 Users Are Having Trouble Downloading Apps From the Store 64
Microsoft Updates Guideline on Windows Driver Security 17
Apple To Suspend iTunes Store Support For 'Obsolete' First-Gen Apple TV 123
Microsoft Starts Selling Lumia Windows Phones Again 111
Intel, Microsoft, Dell, HP and Lenovo Expect PCs With Fast 5G Wireless To Ship Next Year 59
Microsoft Finally Documents the Limitations of Windows 10 on ARM 121
Microsoft Stops Pushing Notifications To Windows 7 and 8 Phones 64
Man, Seeking New Copy of Windows 7 After Forced Windows 10 Upgrade, Sues Microsoft 357
Ask Slashdot: Could Linux Ever Become Fully Compatible With Windows and Mac Software? 359
Windows 10 Compatibility Issues Forcing US Air Force To Scrap a Significant Number of Computers 151
Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps On My PC Without Asking 511
Windows 10 Is Adding an Ultimate Performance Mode For Pros 151
Windows 10 Will Soon Get Progressive Web Apps To Boost the Microsoft Store 152
NSA Exploits Ported To Work on All Windows Versions Released Since Windows 2000 95
Why Windows Vista Ended Up Being a Mess 224
Microsoft Is Now Selling a Surface Laptop With An Intel Core m3 Processor For $799 108
New Zero-Day Vulnerability Found In Adobe Flash Player 87
Surpassing Windows 7's Market Share For the First Time, Windows 10 Now the Most Popular Desktop OS From Microsoft 166
Microsoft's Cloud Bet Continues To Pay Off In Latest Earnings 63
Lenovo's Fingerprint Scanner Can Be Bypassed via a Hardcoded Password 67
Microsoft Issues Windows Out-of-Band Update That Disables Spectre Mitigations 90
Windows 10 Will Soon Let Users Track the Data Microsoft Collects 148
Microsoft Unveils Windows 10 S Laptops Starting at $189 and New Office 365 Tools for Students 107
City of Barcelona Dumps Windows For Linux and Open Source Software 255
Subscriptions With Automated Recurring Billing Come To Windows 10 80
Intel Says Chip-Security Fixes Leave PCs No More Than 10% Slower 276
Microsoft Announces First Mobile Carriers To Support Always Connected PCs 109
Dell's Mobile Connect Application Will Allow Users To Easily Mirror Their Smartphone on PC; To Come Pre-installed On Company's Future PCs 60
Microsoft Details Performance Impact of Spectre and Meltdown Mitigations on Windows Systems 237
Microsoft Says No More Windows Security Updates Unless AVs Set a Registry Key 136
Nvidia's GeForce Now Windows App Transforms Your Cheap Laptop Into a Gaming PC 100
Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre Patch Is Bricking Some AMD PCs 299
Alexa is Coming To Windows 10 PCs From HP, ASUS and Others 99
Lindows Resurrected! Freespire 3.0 and Linspire 7.0 Linux Distros Now Available 77
Microsoft Issues Rare Out-of-Band Emergency Windows Update For Processor Security Bugs 129
Intel Responds To Alleged Chip Flaw, Claims Effects Won't Significantly Impact Average Users 375
'Kernel Memory Leaking' Intel Processor Design Flaw Forces Linux, Windows Redesign 416