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Windows 11 2022 Update Delayed For Some as Printer Issues Continue to Persist
Late last month Microsoft officially began the rollout of its Windows 11 2022 update. Representing the first major revision the operating system has seen since its release last November, however, I think it would be fair to say that, so far, it hasn’t gone entirely according to plan. For example,…
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Windows 11 Gamers Warned to Avoid 2022 Update!
Earlier this week, Microsoft officially confirmed the roll-out of its 2022 update for Windows 11. Representing the operating system’s first major revision since its release last year, anticipation was clearly high that it would be bringing with it not just a whole host of new features and improvements, but generally…
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Microsoft Confirms the Rollout of its Windows 11 2022 Update
Microsoft has announced that the Windows 11 2022 Update has started its official rollout across over 190 countries. The last few years have brought enduring changes in the ways we live, work and learn, with the PC playing a more critical role in our daily lives. Online options that didn’t…
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Microsoft Attempted to Block Windows 11 Installer That Bypassed Requirements!
You may recall that back in early July we reported on ‘Rufus’, a new piece of software that effectively created an ISO-based USB installer for Windows 11. Not too exciting, right? Well, this one came with a bit of a handy trick. Namely, it was able to create an installation…
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Microsoft Sacks Team Whose Job Was to Win General Consumers Back!
Back in 2018, Microsoft announced the launch of its new ‘Modern Life Experiences’ initiative. The object of the program was, in a nutshell, an attempt to win people back to their products and services who may have chosen to transition onto something else. – In basic terms, think along the…
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Windows 11 Update Looks to Improve (Well… Fix) Gaming Performance Bug
When comparing overall market share figures, it seems pretty clear that the gaming community has almost certainly been more proactive in ‘upgrading’ to Windows 11 than average consumers. Why? I have no idea, but possibly just on the merits that people who game are probably more likely to both be…
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Microsoft’s Latest Windows 10 Update May Have Broken More Printers than it Fixed
It’s certainly been something of a common theme over the last few years that updates to Windows 10 have often brought with them some pretty annoying problems for printers (as if printers were not annoying enough to begin with!). – With Microsoft finally seeming to get a handle on the…
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Apple Offers $2M Bounty to Anyone Who Can Crack its iOS 16 ‘Lockdown’ Mode!
At some point within the next 4-12 weeks, Apple is expected to announce the official consumer release of its latest iOS 16 operating system. While this will, of course, bring about a lot of new key changes and overall improvements, however, one of the most interesting new features will be…
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Microsoft to Release New Windows Version Every 3 Years? – Windows 12 by 2024?
The adoption rate for Windows 11 has so far proven to be pretty miserable. At best, recent figures suggest that only around 20% of gaming PC consumers had made the transition whereas less than 10% of ‘average’ consumers had yet felt bothered, interested, or compelled to make the ‘upgrade’. –…
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Steam Hardware Survey – More Solid Gains for Windows 11 With Gamers!
While Windows 11 still struggles to win over general desktop PC consumers, the operating system has undoubtedly seen significantly more success when it comes to the gaming community. No, it’s by no means a runaway success with many still choosing to prefer to remain on Windows 10 for at least…
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Windows 11 Custom USB Installer Removes TPM, Secure Boot & Account Requirements
Despite coming up for a year since its release, the Windows 11 adoption rate still remains more than a little sluggish (currently at just over 10% across all Windows platforms). There are, of course, a number of factors at play here as to why people aren’t too keen on this…
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Mars Express Orbiter is Finally Getting An Upgrade From Windows 98!
Whatever operating system your PC (or laptop) is currently running, I would hope that it’s significantly more modern than Windows 98. When the Mars Express Orbiter launched around 20-years-ago, however, this came just a point where the operating system had just been supplanted by the monumentally successful Windows XP. Alas…
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Microsoft Windows 8.1 Users Warned to Start Expecting End-of-Life Nagware!
Getting one elephant out of the room immediately, no, the Windows 8.1 operating system was never popular. – Released at a somewhat awkward time when Microsoft seemed to believe that the future lay in touchscreen products, while 8/8.1 somewhat worked reasonably well with laptops and tablets, for desktop PCs, it…
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Windows 11 Controversy as ‘Phony’ System Requirements Come Under Scrutiny
One of the biggest problems users have faced when it has come to Windows 11 has undoubtedly been seen in its rather terse system requirements. With even 1st-gen AMD Ryzen processors not being invited to the upgrade party (despite only being 5 years old by the way), in combination with…
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Microsoft to End Windows 11 HDD Boot Drive Support Next Year?
Just merely on a general consumer level, there are many excellent reasons why you should install your Windows operating system on a solid state drive (SSD). Not only are they, generally speaking, significantly more reliable than their HDD counterparts, but in terms of comparative boot times, for most SSDs you’re…
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