Windows Stories for 2023

Microsoft Readies 'Next-Gen' AI-Focused PCs 23
Windows 11 Will Let You Reinstall Your OS Through Windows Update Without Wiping Your Files 111
Microsoft Ending Support For Windows 10 Could Send 240 Million PCs To Landfills, Study Finds 156
Transparent Wood Could Soon Find Uses In Smartphone Screens, Insulated Windows 33
The Arc Browser Is Finally Coming To Windows 53
Notepad On Windows 11 Is Finally Getting a Character Count 47
Microsoft Readies 'Groundbreaking' AI-focused Windows Release 69
Windows 10 Gets Three More Years of Security Updates, If You Can Afford Them 80
A Windows Update Bug Is Renaming Everyone's Printers To HP M101-M106 55
Microsoft Phone Link May Soon Let You Use Your Android Phone As a Webcam 35
Samsung Expands In-house Web Browser To Windows 39
Researchers Figure Out How To Bypass Fingerprint Readers In Most Windows PCs 25
Microsoft's Windows Hello Fingerprint Authentication Has Been Bypassed 53
The EU Will Finally Free Windows Users From Bing 67
Windows is Now an App for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs 57
Microsoft Windows Turns 40 97
Microsoft Plans To Bring Its AI Copilot To 1 Billion Windows 10 Users 59
Microsoft Commits To 6 Years of Firmware Updates For New and Some Older Surface PCs 12
Microsoft Calls Time on Windows Insider MVP Program 12
Windows 11 Adds Native Support For RAR, 7-Zip, Tar Archive File Formats 85
Windows CE Reaches End of Life, If Not End of Sales 36
Windows 11 Now Lets You Write Anywhere You Can Type 51
PIRG Petitions Microsoft To Extend the Life of Windows 10 117
Windows 11 Pro's On-By-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up To 45% 120
Windows 11 is Active on Almost Half a Billion Devices 63
To 'Evolve' Windows Authentication, Microsoft Wants to Eventually Disable NTLM in Windows 11 68
Lenovo Will Soon Distribute Devices Powered By the Esper Foundation OS 16
Microsoft Says VBScript Will Be Ripped From Windows In a Future Release 79
Not Even the Ghost of Obsolescence Can Coerce Users Onto Windows 11 287
Linux Tries To Dump Windows' Notoriously Insecure RNDIS Protocol 35
You Can No Longer Activate New Windows 11 Builds With Windows 7 or 8 Keys 84
Windows 11's New 'Never Combine' Icons Feature Is Almost Unusable 121
Windows 11's Next Big Update Now Available With Copilot, AI-powered Paint 25
Windows 11 Gains Support for Managing Passkeys 49
Windows 11's Next Big Update Arrives on September 26th With Copilot, RAR Support 98
Paint App For Windows Update Adds Support for Layers and Transparency 32
Windows and Surface Leader Panos Panay Leaving Microsoft 15
Microsoft Is Testing a Background Removal Tool In Paint 16
Windows File Explorer Gets Nostalgic Speed Boost Thanks To One Weird Bug 39
Microsoft To Stop Forcing Windows 11 Users Into Edge in EU Countries 91
After 28 Years, Microsoft Announces it Will Remove WordPad From Windows 120
New Windows Updates Cause UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR Blue Screens 66
Chromebooks Get New Way To Run Windows Apps With Cameyo's Virtual App Delivery 19
Microsoft May Bring AI Capabilities To Apps Like Paint and Photos On Windows 11 20
Windows 11 Has Made the 'Clean Windows Install' an Oxymoron 207
Lenovo's Handheld 'Legion Go' Gaming Computer: Detachable Controls and AR Glasses? 6
Windows Feature That Resets System Clock Based On Random Data Is Wreaking Havoc 119
Microsoft Shuts Down Cortana App On Windows 11 16
Microsoft Accidentally Leaks Internal Utility for Testing New Windows 11 Features 40
Lenovo Is Working On a Windows PC Gaming Handheld Called the 'Legion Go' 17
Malicious Microsoft Drivers Could Number in the Thousands, Says Cisco Talos 36
Windows 11's AI-powered Copilot (and its Bing-powered ads) Enters Public Preview 26
The ReactOS Project Suddenly Shows Signs of Life 38
Microsoft Wants To Move Windows Fully To the Cloud - Internal Presentation 260
WinGPT Is a New ChatGPT App For Your Ancient Windows 3.1 PC 91
Windows 11 Preview Adds Better Passkey Support, Rolls Back File Explorer Changes 23
Windows 11 Update Breaks Chrome for Some Antivirus Software Users 49
Microsoft Teams Integration Is Being Removed From Windows 11 60
New DirectX 12-To-Metal Translation Could Bring a World of Windows Games To macOS 32
MS Paint Gets Its Long-Promised Dark Mode, Along With Other Improvements 25
Microsoft Is Finally Killing Cortana On Windows 22
Microsoft Announces Cloud-Powered OS Backup and Restore for Windows 11, Better ARM Support 50
Windows XP Activation Algorithm Has Been Cracked 59
Windows 11 Is Getting the Ability To Run Win32 Apps In Isolation 63
28 Years Later, Windows Finally Supports RAR Files 110
Microsoft Announces Windows Copilot, an AI 'Personal Assistant' for Windows 11 79
First Rust Code Shows Up in the Windows 11 Kernel 42
Microsoft Could Cram More Ads Into Windows 11 - This Time in the Settings App 151
Microsoft To Take On Apple Silicon With Custom ARM Chips 50
Microsoft is Busy Rewriting Core Windows Code in Memory-safe Rust 150
Microsoft is Done With Major Windows 10 Updates 163
Windows 11 Start Menu Ads Look Set To Get Even Worse 109
Microsoft Is Experimenting With a Steam Deck-Friendly 'Handheld Mode' For Windows 16
Microsoft Set To Change Print Screen Button So It Opens Snipping Tool in Windows 11 67
Windows Defender Finally Squashes Firefox Bug That Ate CPUs For 5 Years 85
YouTuber Tricks ChatGPT Into Generating Windows 95 Keys 51
Steam Will Require Windows 10 or Later Next Year 100
Microsoft Plans Major Platform Upgrades for 'Windows 12' That Will Modernize the OS With AI and Faster Updates 143
Microsoft Wants Changing Default Apps In Windows To Be Less of a Mess 80
Microsoft Is Testing File Recommendations In Explorer 46
Microsoft Will Now Preview the Future of Windows With New Canary Channel 23
Unkillable UEFI Malware Bypassing Secure Boot Enabled By Unpatchable Windows Flaw 115
Apple's 'iMessage' Texts are Coming To Windows (with Limitations) 24
Microsoft Brings Its New AI-powered Bing To the Windows 11 Taskbar 39
Microsoft Defender App Now Force-Installed For Microsoft 365 Users 59
Windows 11 Slapping a Watermark on 'Unsupported' PCs 184
Ask Slashdot: Should Production Networks Avoid Windows 11? 192
Researchers Unearth Windows Backdoor That's Unusually Stealthy 33
Windows 11 Will Soon Control Your RGB Lighting For PC Gaming Accessories 119
Is Windows 11 Spyware? Microsoft Defends Sending User Data to Third Parties 195
More Than 30% of Steam Users Now Run Windows 11 77
Wine 8.0 Released — and Plenty of Improvements are Included 59
Microsoft Has Copied the Best Windows Audio App 41
Microsoft Starts Testing Tabs In Notepad 72
Microsoft Will End Sale of Windows 10 Licenses to Consumers This Month 69
Microsoft Investigating Windows Start Menu and Taskbar Shortcuts Disappearing 36
On Tuesday Windows 8.1 Gets Its Final Security Patches 49
'Debloating Windows 10 With One Command and No Scripts' 101