Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. The secret to the continuing availability of security patches ...

Microsoft has warned IT administrators to prepare for the removal of Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) from Windows Server releases starting in November 2034. Microsoft announced today that it will ...

Microsoft recently described some updates to Windows Server, including the introduction of global hotpatching and the planned deprecation of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). Late last week, ...

Microsoft has mitigated a known issue that caused Windows update failures when installing them from a network share using the Windows Update Standalone Installer (WUSA). WUSA is a built-in ...

Security updates are always a good thing, until they aren’t, as anyone whose organization was disrupted by the CrowdStrike Falcon issue will be only too aware. However, they are a necessary evil in ...

Microsoft says Windows Server updates released during December's Patch Tuesday trigger errors when creating new virtual machines on some Hyper-V hosts. The problem exists in Windows Server/AzStack HCI ...

Microsoft plans to end support for several products in 2026, and the list of those products also includes Windows 11 24H2.

One developer who successfully activated the feature in Windows 11 (version 25H2) is X user PurePlayerPC, who claims it works "pretty good" on his computer. He ...

It's hard to justify spending that much money on an OS when you can go the FOSS route with Linux distributions ...

Microsoft’s recent introduction of a native NVMe SSD performance driver for Windows Server 2025 has drawn attention after ...

Server Manager is a Windows tool that allows you and other IT professionals to manage local and remote Windows-based servers from your desktops without accessing the servers or connecting to the ...

If you spend any amount of time in home-lab communities or pursuing forums, you’ll notice a weird propensity to dump on Windows. Real home labs run Linux. Proxmox, TrueNAS, ESXi replacements, Docker ...