Windows Stories for 2020

Adobe Now Shows Alerts in Windows 10 To Uninstall Flash Player 61
A Year After Microsoft Ended All Support for Windows 7, Millions of Users Are Still Not Upgrading 239
Scott Hanselman's 2021 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows 65
Creator of DirectX Dies at Age 55 94
Microsoft Will Start Force Upgrading Windows 10 For Some Users 232
Microsoft's Latest Windows 10 Test Builds Includes Promised x64 Arm Emulation 30
Microsoft is Testing a Cortana 'File Skill' To Find Files Faster in Windows 10 45
AWS Engineer Puts Windows 10 on Arm on Apple Mac M1 -- and It Thrashes Surface Pro X 107
Microsoft's New Windows Feature Experience Packs Are Smaller Updates To Windows 10 30
Developer Successfully Virtualizes Windows for Arm on M1 Mac 114
Microsoft's 'Project Latte' Aims To Bring Android Apps To Windows 10 65
Windows Turns 35 111
Microsoft Is Showing Windows 10 Users Full-Screen Ads For Its Edge Browser 148
Microsoft Engineer Gets Nine Years For Stealing $10 Million From Microsoft 41
Windows 7 Won't Die, Still Second Most Popular OS 83
Google Discloses Windows Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild 32
Microsoft Overhauls Excel With Live Custom Data Types 27
New Windows 10 Update Permanently Removes Adobe Flash 102
Microsoft Plans Big Windows 10 UI Refresh in 2021 Codenamed 'Sun Valley' 145
Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Windows 7 and Windows 8 91
Microsoft Forces Windows 10 Restarts -- To Install 'Unsolicited, Unwanted' Office Apps 292
'No, Microsoft Won't Rebase Windows to Linux' Argues Canonical's Manager for Ubuntu on WSL 98
What If They Replaced Windows With Microsoft Linux? 239
ZDNet Argues Linux-Based Windows 'Makes Perfect Sense' 100
Graphical Linux Apps Are Coming to Windows Subsystem for Linux 89
Microsoft Testing Windows 10 Feature That'll Detect If Your SSD Is Failing 39
Microsoft Unveils Surface Laptops To Fulfill 'PC For Every Single Person' Vision 65
Windows XP Leak Confirmed After User Compiles the Leaked Code Into a Working OS 89
Windows on ARM is About To Get Lots of Apps Thanks To New x64 Emulation 65
Eric S. Raymond: Is Microsoft Switching To a Linux Kernel That Emulates Windows? 276
Windows XP Source Code Leaked 193
Feds Issue Emergency Order For Agencies To Patch Critical Windows Flaw 61
Microsoft Warns Workaround Preventing Lenovo ThinkPad BSOD Increases Risk 32
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' Includes 129 Security Updates, Mostly to Windows 41
WSL 2 In Windows 10 Now Supports Mounting Linux Filesystems Like EXT4 69
Windows 10 Themes Can Be Abused To Steal Windows Passwords 37
Microsoft is Building a New Midrange Surface Clamshell PC With a 12.5-inch Display 32
Microsoft Tests Fix For Bug That Defrags SSD Drives Too Often 95
Windows 95 Released a Quarter Century Ago 108
Microsoft Removes Registry Tweak That Allowed Users To Permanently Disable Windows Defender 126
Transparent Solar Panels For Windows Hit Record 8% Efficiency 60
Microsoft Signals Renewed Interest In Windows With Latest Reshuffle 57
Microsoft Integrates Android Apps Into Windows 10 With New 'Your Phone' Update 36
FBI Issues Warning Over Windows 7 End-of-Life 151
Windows 10: HOSTS File Blocking Telemetry Is Now Flagged As a Risk 159
Microsoft Edge Accused of Stealing Data From Chrome 90
Microsoft To Remove All SHA-1 Windows Downloads Next Week 46
You Can Now Boot a Windows 95 PC Inside Minecraft and Play Doom On It 84
Microsoft Plans For Single-Screen Windows 10X Rollout in Spring 2021; Dual-Screen in Spring 2022 40
Microsoft Announces It Won't Be the Ones Building PHP 8.0 for Windows 67
Microsoft's New KDP Tech Blocks Malware By Making Parts of the Windows Kernel Read-Only 43
Microsoft Will Axe Control Panel From Windows 10 208
Microsoft Released an Emergency Security Update to Fix Two Bugs in Windows Codecs 62
Microsoft Announces New Windows 10 Start Menu Design, Updated Alt-Tab 140
Microsoft's New 'Windows File Recovery' Tool Restores Deleted Data 59
Microsoft Removes Manual Deferrals From Windows Update By IT Pros 'To Prevent Confusion' 115
Apple's ARM Switch Will Be the End of Boot Camp 216
Microsoft Is Adding Linux, Android, and Firmware Protections To Windows 19
Microsoft Edge Accused of Sneakily Importing Firefox Data In Windows 10 48
Windows 10 Linux Subsystem: You Get GPU Acceleration -- With Intel, AMD, Nvidia Drivers 56
Reporter Tests Walmart's $140 Laptop 'So You Wouldn't Have To' 200
Microsoft Says Antitrust Regulators Need To Review App Stores 74
Google Partners With Parallels To Bring Windows Apps To Chrome OS 13
Microsoft Moves Its Windows 10 Insider Program from Rings To Release Channels 9
Google Chrome 85 To Allow Users To Compose Tweets From Windows 10 Taskbar 22
Windows 10's Latest Updates Are Causing Havoc On Printers 69
New Java-Based Ransomware Targets Linux and Windows Systems 37
Microsoft's New Edge Browser Now Rolling Out via Windows Update 29
Microsoft Now Credits Maker of Package Manager it 'Copied' -- But Offers No Apology 67
New Fuzzing Tool Finds 26 USB Bugs in Linux, Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD 37
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Update with Linux and Notepad Enhancements 82
Microsoft's Jeff Teper: Teams 'Will Be Even Bigger Than Windows' 105
Outlook For Windows Will Soon Sync Email Signatures Across Devices 24
Microsoft Debuts Windows Package Manager For Your Dev Environment 50
Microsoft's New PowerToys Run Launcher for Windows 10 is Now Available To Download 46
Microsoft Takes Step Toward Phasing Out 32-bit PC Support for Windows 10 105
PrintDemon Vulnerability Impacts All Windows Versions 28
Inkscape 1.0 Released 68
Microsoft Announces Surface Book 3 With 10th-Gen Intel CPUs and New NVIDIA GPUs 23
Microsoft Confirms Windows 10X is Coming To Laptops Amid Big Jump in Windows Usage 94
Canon's New Software Will Turn Select EOS, PowerShot Cameras Into Webcams for Windows 10 PCs 78
You Can Now Manage Windows 10 Devices Through G Suite 55
Some Windows 10 Users Complain Newest Update Is Deleting Their Files 233
Malwarebytes Releases New VPN Service For Windows 24
Microsoft's New Browser For Windows 7 Will Be Retired In July 2021 27
The Sandboxie Windows Sandbox Isolation Tool Is Now Open-Source 22
Don't Expect Any Windows 10X Devices This Calendar Year, Says Microsoft 22
Windows 10 Is Getting Linux Files Integration In File Explorer 111
Microsoft Reports a 775 Percent Increase In Usage of Azure Cloud Services 29
Microsoft Throttles Some Office 365 Services To Continue To Meet Demand 43
Microsoft Says Hackers Are Attacking Windows Users With a New Unpatched Bug 69
Microsoft Teases Revamped UI For Windows 10 160
Windows, Ubuntu, macOS, VirtualBox Fall at Pwn2Own Hacking Contest 26
Windows 10 Now Runs on 1 Billion Devices 61
'Windows Subsystem for Linux 2' Will Include a Microsoft-Written Linux Kernel 168
Microsoft Patches SMBv3 Wormable Bug That Leaked Earlier this Week 12
Windows Has a New Wormable Vulnerability With No Patch Available 68
Microsoft's Original Halo Game Is Now Available On PC 60
Microsoft Wants To Do Away With Windows 10 Local Accounts 277
Windows 10 Icons Are Getting An Overdue Redesign 144
Warning: Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 Security Update After Reports of Serious Bugs 103
FSF Sends Microsoft A Blank Hard Drive For Sending Back The Windows 7 Source Code 144
Apple's Mac Computers Now Outpace Windows In Malware 97
Samsung Galaxy Book S is Thinner, Lighter, Faster Than MacBook Air 81
Microsoft Promises Windows 10X Updates Will Take 'Less Than 90 Seconds' 76
South Korea's Government Explores Move From Windows To Linux Desktop 44
The Windows 10 Start Menu Now Harasses Firefox Users 122
Suspicion and Anger Towards Microsoft Rises After Windows 10 Search Failure 173
Intel's 'Clear Linux' Distro Beats Ubuntu and Windows 10 -- on an AMD Laptop 51
Windows 7 Bug Prevents Users From Shutting Down Or Rebooting Computers 59
New Keyboard Shortcut Manager PowerToy Lets Windows 10 Users Remap Their Keyboards 59
Windows Search Went Down For Hours Because of a Microsoft Services Outage 68
Microsoft To Combine Its Windows Client and Hardware Teams Under Chief Product Officer Panos Panay 6
Ubuntu vs Windows 10: Performance Tests on a Walmart Laptop 147
iPad Launch Blindsided Windows Team, Reveals Former Microsoft Executive 109
Microsoft Says it Will Release Black Desktop Bug Fix To All Windows 7 Users For Free 41
Consider Switching From Internet Explorer, Says US Homeland Security 46
Free Software Foundation Suggests Microsoft 'Upcycle' Windows 7 As Open Source 59
How Dual-Screen Apps Will Run On Windows 10X, Android 29
German Government To Pay Over $850,000 in Windows 7 ESU Fees This Year 54
Microsoft's CEO Looks To a Future Beyond Windows, iOS, and Android 53
Wine 5.0 Released 60
Microsoft's New Windows Terminal Preview Offers a Retro CRT Screen Effect 53
Proof-of-Concept Exploits Published for the Microsoft-NSA Crypto Bug 25
Microsoft Patches Major Windows 10 Vulnerability After NSA Warning 42
Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday 37
UK Govt Warns Not To Access Online Banking on Windows 7 80
The End of Windows 7 'Marks the End of the PC Era Too' 166