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Microsoft says sure, it'll hand over your encrypted data to the FBI: 'The lesson here is that if you have access to keys, eventually law enforcement is going to come'
By Rich Stanton published
News "Microsoft believes customers are in the best position to decide how to manage their keys."

GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software… I can't believe it!'
By Joshua Wolens published
News He's just like me, for real.

If you want to scrub Windows 11's AI features off the face of the earth some legend has made a tool that does just that
By Jacob Fox published
News Nuke it from orbit.

Microsoft resurrects Clippy in Copilot, presumably because it's intrusive, doesn't understand context, and is god damn annoying
By Rich Stanton published
I don't mean it Clippy. Copilot: shut up.

If Microsoft wins this UK court case it might spell the end of second-hand Windows licenses
By Jacob Fox published
News Microsoft's defence is to do with "non-program" parts of the OS.

Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'
By Stevie Bonifield published
news You can have Copilot generate your formulas in Excel now, but it doesn't sound ready for prime time.

It's PC Gamer's Gripes Week and you know what Windows 11 is… mostly fine. But it sure ain't perfect
By Dave James published
Gripes week I asked the team to nourish my black heart with their Windows pain and I'm kinda going hungry here.

Microsoft is finally rolling out its controversial Recall feature that screenshots everything you do (again), but only for select users
By Stevie Bonifield published
news Microsoft's recalled Recall feature is un-recalled once again.

The last thing I ever want to do is 'Learn more' or have you 'Remind Me Later': Microsoft is pushing fullscreen ads for Windows 11 laptops to people still using Windows 10
By Ted Litchfield published
news Another win for Linux Guy accelerationism.

Microsoft's word-soup has made Windows 11 updates noticeably quicker via the 'parallel processing of component manifests' complementing 'the parallel hydration of newly serviced components using reverse and forward differentials'
By Nick Evanson published
news In plain speak: it's making better use of your PC's hardware, and it's really working for me.
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