Activating Windows without the internet may soon be a thing of the past. Reports suggest Microsoft has quietly stepped away from its long-standing phone activation system, leaving online activation as the only practical option...

Microsoft has quietly confirmed something many users rarely have in mind, and that is, if authorities arrive with the right paperwork, the company can hand over BitLocker recovery keys. Those keys are powerful as...

Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday update of the year arrived with good intentions and a few unwanted side effects. While the January security update fixed more than 110 vulnerabilities, including several critical flaws and at...

Microsoft is quietly shutting down the Collections feature in Edge, the tool that let users save links, notes, and research in one place. A new message in Edge now warns users that Collections is...