… The last regular updates rolled out to Windows 10 in October of last year, but the Internet can be a dangerous place for unpatched Windows machines. That was a problem for Microsoft, as Windows 11 usage had only barely surpassed Windows 10 when support ended. …
… Microsoft’s Windows 11 improvement efforts come as the company tries to coax users and businesses off of Windows 10, which still runs on a little over a quarter of the world’s Windows PCs, according to StatCounter data . …
… Microsoft is introducing a Windows-native version of the coreutils command line tools, so that commands or scripts made for Linux work within Windows and the other way around; the ability to run WSL inside of containers, said to be arriving in “the coming months”; and something called Windows Devel… …
… All of these changes are being made as part of Microsoft’s continued “ commitment to Windows quality ” push, meant to address several of the real and perceived shortcomings of Windows 11 relative to older versions. …
… Microsoft’s announcement post ties the Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery feature to its “ commitment to Windows quality ” push, a mix of PR work and actual changes to Windows 11 meant to address user complaints about the operating system. …
… Microsoft’s Prism x86-to-Arm code translation technology and an increasing number of Arm-native third-party apps have made Arm-powered Windows PCs feel a lot more like regular Windows devices than they used to. …
… Valve’s timing also coincided with a tenuous time for Windows , when Microsoft was asking users to move from Windows 10 to Windows 11, an OS with a reputation for being irritating and having higher system requirements. …
… Microsoft is in the process of updating Windows 10 and Windows 11 machines. …
… After a public backlash, Microsoft later relented and vowed no such legal action would occur. On Tuesday, Nightmare Eclipse published exploit code for a new Windows vulnerability. …
… Nvidia stands to benefit from the years of progress made on the Arm version of Windows since the Windows RT days. Microsoft’s x86-to-Arm code translation layer, codenamed Prism, has gotten better and faster. …