Here's what those enrolled in the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates program need to know about each monthly security ...

Microsoft has released the Windows 10 KB5087544 extended security update to fix the May 2026 Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has patched a BitLocker recovery bug, but the fix is exclusive to Windows 11 version 25H2, leaving Windows 10 users ...

This update enables dynamic status reporting for Secure Boot states in the Windows Security App (Settings > Update & Security > Windows Security). Learn more about the status alerts via badges and ...

Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. Microsoft is finally fixing the "Update and Shut Down" function on Windows, which has long been criticized for ...

Microsoft has a “security disaster” on its hands — the scale of which we have not seen before, with hundreds of millions of unsupported PCs. It has forced the Windows-maker to reverse decisions and ...

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 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 ...