Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy. This update mistake has finally been fixed. Updated on Nov. 5 ...

What’s happened? After years of complaints, Windows 11 (and some Windows 10 PCs) will now correctly shut down when you click “Update and shut down”, instead of rebooting unexpectedly. As reported by ...

This month's non-security update for Windows 10 is here, and it brings SMBv1 fixes and other patches for the operating system that will be out of support in less than three weeks. Microsoft has ...

Officially, Windows 10 died last month, a little over a decade after its initial release. But the old operating system’s enduring popularity has prompted Microsoft to promise between one and three ...

Most PC users have experienced this problem first-hand: Windows performs updates, and your "Restart" and "Shut down" options get replaced by "Update and restart" and "Update and shut down." Only, in ...

Microsoft has detailed a fix for a bug affecting tons of versions of Windows, but applying the patch is not as simple as going through Windows Update. In the past couple of days, reports about about a ...

Microsoft has released the KB5068781 update, the first Windows 10 extended security update since the operating system reached end of support last month. On October 14, Microsoft released the final ...