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Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Interrogating the software itself seems to show that the next version of Microsoft's key software will get a new seasonal reference. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

IDG Checking for new updates in Windows 11. (Click any image in this story to enlarge it.) All updates are not created equal In Microsoft-speak, there are updates and then there are updates, like ...

Long-term shifts in the installed base for Windows PCs are nothing new. For decades, businesses have been dealing with the logistics and the costs of migrating from one Windows version to another. As ...

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