After some major blunders over the years, Microsoft has clearly been focusing more and more on security. Just this year, the company has plugged hundreds of security vulnerabilities across their various software and service offerings.

If you're currently using any version of Windows other than Windows 11, then your system is either already unsupported (Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8.1), or soon to become unsupported (Windows 10). And Microsoft's best advice for anyone in that situation is "move to Windows 11 by buying a new PC".

If your PC runs Windows 10, you can ignore those pesky compatibility checks and upgrade to Windows 11. Here's how nearly two dozen ZDNET readers got the job done and saved their laptops from the scrap pile.

Microsoft will take Windows 11 into the passkeys era, where you'll no longer be asked to use passwords to access the operating system.

Windows 11 supports passkeys, but only in the most basic way imaginable. But that's about to change. Microsoft says.

The endless cat-and-mouse game between Microsoft and the community of devoted Windows hackers just took another turn.

Microsoft has been making quite a few changes to the Windows 11 taskbar, but there’s still room for improvement. Despite the big Windows 11 2024 Update that just dropped and all the nifty features and improvements in that update,