TL;DR: Windows 11 Pro is available for $9.97 (reg. $199), offering a low-cost upgrade now that Windows 10 support has ...

Windows 11 SE, Microsoft’s education-first OS for K–8 classrooms, will reach end of support in 2026, forcing schools to ...

There were a few ways to activate Windows 11/10 officially. However, Microsoft has now apparently killed one such way without ...

Microsoft no longer officially supports Windows 10, so do this if you want to keep using your older PC securely.

Microsoft didn’t release a major new version of Windows in 2025, but it did deliver a lot of significant updates. Here's my ...

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

For at least the last decade, the great unresolved debate in mobile computing is whether the phone in your pocket can replace ...

LibreOffice is free to download and install for Windows.

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Support for Windows 10 ended on October 14, 2025. Despite millions of Windows users still on Windows 10, that date has come and gone, with all of those PCs now over the security cliff. Some users will ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Need some help to solve the December 10, 2025 (#913) edition of NYT Connections? We’ve got you covered with some clues and hints to help you save your winning streak. Connections by The New York Times ...