Zac Bowden is a Senior Editor at Windows Central and has been with the site since 2016. His expertise is in exclusive coverage about Windows, Surface, and hardware. He's also an avid collector of rare Microsoft prototype devices, and was fortunate enough to daily drive both the fabled Lumia McLaren and Microsoft Band 3, along the Surface Mini and even Surface Neo. Keep in touch with him on Twitter and Threads!
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Windows 11 Notepad has slowly gained a plethora of features that elevate it way beyond a basic text editor, now rivaling the likes of Apple Notes and Google Keep. But is Microsoft right to do this?
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Windows 11 Windows 11 Insiders can now begin testing early foundational builds that are expected to work towards the next platform release, which is likely to debut in 2027 with version 27H2.
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Windows 11 Is Microsoft ashamed of Windows? I wouldn't blame you for thinking so, given every year Google and Apple are eager to get on stage and talk about what's next for their platforms. Microsoft hasn't done this for Windows in a long time.
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Windows 11 Windows 11's latest Release Preview Channel update has given us our first look at Microsoft's next OS feature drop that's expected to begin rolling out imminently.
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X A major outage has taken X offline for millions of users, with people reporting they are unable to access the website or the app.
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Windows 11 Microsoft is planning to bring back the ability to move and resize the Taskbar on Windows 11 as part of its effort to improve sentiment around the OS this year.
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Windows 11 You can now find, install, and update Microsoft Store apps using a command prompt on Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs. No GUI required.
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Laptops Want a new Windows laptop? You should consider one powered by a Snapdragon X processor.
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Windows 11 Microsoft's special offshoot version of Windows 11 that's exclusive to Snapdragon X2 devices won't be getting an upgrade to version 26H2 this fall. Here's why
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Windows 11 After 15 years, the original Secure Boot certificates that keep your PC secure during boot are expiring. Here's what you need to know.
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Windows 11 Signal Private Messenger can now be searched for and downloaded on Windows PCs directly via the Microsoft Store.
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Windows 11 A new demo experience lets users try Copilot for the first time before ever hitting the desktop, during the out of box setup experience on Windows 11.
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Review FlexiSpot's latest standing desk is one built from the ground up with cable management in mind. That's not always an easy feat when you're dealing with a dynamic height adjusting tabletop.
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Microsoft Steven Sinofsky sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein in newly released Epstein files, revealing that the former Windows head shared confidential Microsoft emails with the disgraced financier in 2012-2013.
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Windows 11 People familiar with Microsoft's plans say the company is moving to streamline or remove certain Copilot integrations across in-box apps like Notepad and Paint in 2026, after pushback from users.
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Windows 11 Microsoft's PowerToys team is exploring a new feature that would add a menu bar to the top of the Windows desktop, offering power user shortcuts similar to the menu bar on a Mac or Linux distro.
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Windows 11 Windows 11's biggest pain points are to be addressed this year, Microsoft's Windows president Pavan Davuluri has said.
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Windows 11 It took Windows 10 1,706 days to reach 1 billion users, but Windows 11 has done it in just 1,576. A huge milestone for Microsoft.
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Windows 11 After a rough few weeks, Microsoft has promised to make behind-the-scenes platform changes to Windows 11 as it begins testing the next wave of features.
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How to If you don't want to use Windows Recall, Microsoft has built-in a quick and easy ways to disable or uninstall it. Here's how to turn off Windows Recall and delete the data it has collected.
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Gaming Resident Evil Requiem brings back the icon Leon Kennedy for another zombie filled adventure, and it's almost like he never left.
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Windows 11 Microsoft has posted an online bulletin confirming that the company is investigating reports that state Windows 11's latest security update has rendered some PCs unbootable.
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Windows 11 Another out of band update has been issued to Windows 11 users to address a major bug that caused Outlook to become inoperable after January's disastrous Patch Tuesday updates.
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Windows 11 Windows 11's online Microsoft Account requirement means your PC is automatically backing up its data encryption key to the cloud, and Microsoft says it will hand those over to the FBI if asked.
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