Microsoft is making it easy to activate the Linux Bash shell on Windows. More importantly, it's also bringing the Linux Bash shell to Azure and Windows Server.

Microsoft's newest Windows 10 edition is designed to allow desktop apps that have been converted to packages for the Windows Store. But a provision in the Store policies blocks desktop browsers like Chrome. Is it about security, or something else?

While some progress has definitely been made with Microsoft's app store offerings, the current format is clunky at best, counter-intuitive at worst. Our Executive Editor Daniel Rubino recently discussed the notion on the latest episode of Ask Dan Windows, and it's a question I often see thrown around on reddit, Twitter, and other networks. Step into any PC gamer's community, and you will see near-universal revulsion for the Windows 10 Store as a solution for delivering video games.

Microsoft is launching a new Surface-branded device today: the Surface Laptop. While the device leaked last night, Microsoft's Panos Panay took to the stage at the company's New York City event to unveil it officially today. It's a 13.5-inch laptop that's designed to work with the company's new Windows 10 S operating system. Panos Panay, Microsoft's devices chief, says Microsoft has focused this hardware on students who are just about to leave high schools.

Blast could give a boost to Dridex, one of the Internet's worst bank fraud threats.

The files mostly pertain to Grasshopper, a framework used to build custom installation executables, and the agency's use of the Carberp malware in its Stolen Goods persistence mechanism.

Microsoft is playing Windows 10 hardball.

I’ve sat back and witnessed the development of Windows 10 and appreciated the speed of new feature releases, but it seems there’s a price to pay for this new “Windows as a service” world. Microsoft has gradually been infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads. The first emerged on the lock screen as “tips,” and then there was the bundling of Candy Crush with the OS, and now Microsoft has started blasting notifications into the task bar and File Explorer.

It's just as miserable as you remember, and more so.

I’m a die-hard Apple user, but after years of watching the Mac slowly die, I’ve switched back to Windows. Here’s the story of why I moved back to Windows, and what I’ve found so far.

A month late? Seriously? It’s both outrageous and unsurprising.

Chrome is still the fastest of the fast on Windows 7, but Opera's giving it a run for its money. As for Internet Explorer, in a word: Ugh.

Microsoft made a big fuss out of the Windows 10 Creators Update's gaming features, and it's nearly ready to start delivering on them... including some that have remained mysterious. The company has revealed that it'll start trotting out a largely unknown Windows 10 Game Mode as part of Insider previews "this week." The improvement won't be fully functional until later releases, but Microsoft has at last shed some light on what it is: it'll fine-tune your PC to speed up gaming performance.

Pornhub dropped its annual yearly review and it appears Windows users had their hands full throughout 2016 – but not with work.

Microsoft is bringing a full version of Windows 10, complete with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets. The software giant demonstrated Windows 10 running on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chip today, complete with HD video playback, Adobe Photoshop support, and Microsoft Office. Microsoft expects ARM-based laptops to be the first to adopt this new version of Windows 10. Traditional x86 desktop apps will be emulated, making the experience seamless to the end user. Laptops might be the first, but it’s easy to see past that and realize that this means Microsoft is about to turn a phone into a real PC.

Microsoft once again had to pay out compensation for upgrading a PC to Windows 10 against the intention of the user. The latest victim of the unintended upgrade was grandfather with Alzheimer’s disease, whose Windows 7 PC had been set up to look like Windows XP, as this was the only environment he was familiar with.

The latest Windows 10 insider build brings a change that puts the Windows PowerShell in the spotlight, as it replaces the super-popular Command Prompt in some essential parts of the operating system.

I've been an Apple fanboy since I bought my first Macintosh IIsi — complete with color CRT monitor! — secondhand from a friend at college in 1993. There followed my first color Powerbook in 1996, my cool purple plastic iMac in 1998, my 2003 Powerbook G4 (the first aluminum one, which Steve Jobs introduced with the unforgettable equation "Power + Sex = ?") and at least a half-dozen other Powerbooks, Macbooks, iMacs and Macbook Pros.

Microsoft’s partners will ship a new line of virtual reality headsets to take advantage of Windows 10’s VR and holographic capabilities. At today’s event, Microsoft said that the headsets will start at $299 and will include inside-out tracking sensors, obviating the need for external cameras or laser systems like those on the current Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, and Acer are all listed as partners.

Soon, Windows 10 will be the only Windows operating system you can buy officially. On October 31, Windows 7 and 8.1 are reaching their end of sales milestone. We explain what that means for you.