Microsoft's Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems are PCMag Editors' Choice picks, but there's always room for improvement. It's puzzling, for example, that the company includes annoying ...

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In this episode of Microsoft Weekly, Recall is making a comeback (somewhere in October), Windows 10's Start menu is getting annoying ads, Windows Insiders have six new builds to test, gamers have a ...

Welcome, new Linux users! The world is bright on this side of the universe, with no ads and ever-growing gaming support. Check out protondb.com for compatibility of your favorite games. Click to ...

In 2016, Microsoft made a decision everyone had been dreading – serving ads directly to your Windows 10 operating system. At first, it was only a lockscreen advertisement for "Rise of the Tomb Raider" ...

Facepalm: Microsoft first introduced ads on the Start menu with Windows 10 but has kept them out of Windows 11 so far, possibly to incentivize migration to its latest version. But that's likely set to ...

Remember back when Windows 11 first came out and Microsoft gave everyone a free pass to upgrade? On the surface, it was a generous move; in actuality, it was a ploy to lure us away from Windows 10.

Windows 10 wasn’t perfect; these examples of what it did right are cherry-picked. But part of the operating system’s ...

As any Windows 10 holdout can tell you, Microsoft really wants you to upgrade to Windows 11. Not only is it prematurely killing support for the older operating system by next year, but it’s been ...

Microsoft is currently testing a new feature that places ads within the Windows 11 Start menu. These ads are showing up in the “Recommended” section, which traditionally suggests files but now also ...

One of the more annoying things about Windows 11 is that the operating system displays ads in the Start menu for promoted apps and services from the Microsoft Store. The good news is, you can turn ...