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With Windows-as-a-service, you never need to worry about installing a patch because every Microsoft patch is guaranteed, 100%, to always work, never cause problems, and certainly never break previous functionality. That, at least, is the official corporate line. Microsoft’s ability to deliver on that promise is highly questionable to nonexistent, …

A new Windows 10 Insider Preview build, available now, gives some end users the ability to defer updates and avoid baked-in driver installations arriving at the same time. The new changes have been made in response to longstanding consumer grievances, but they don’t go nearly far enough to satisfy most …

Officially, Windows 10’s free upgrade period ended six months ago. Unofficially, anyone who still wants to upgrade off a valid Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 license is free to do so. We covered how Microsoft hadn’t shut the upgrade program down not long after the update period ended on July …

Photoshop has never been inexpensive, but historically casual users could simply stick with a version and not spend money on updates. With the advent of Raw processing – that needs to be updated when new cameras are released – and Adobe’s move to a subscription model, many long-time users pushed back and …

Update: An earlier version of this story reported that Capossela was interviewed by Softpedia. While Softpedia was reported elsewhere as originating the story, the actual interview was done by Windows Weekly. ExtremeTech regrets the error. From mid-2015 to 2016, Microsoft ran two simultaneous experiments. First, it made Windows 10 free …

If you’ve spent a lot of time around the Christmas dessert table, like I have, you may have noticed these pretty church windows. I’ve seen them at many  a holiday gathering from work to family functions, but never realized exactly what was in them or how they were made. Now …

Microsoft has pushed the Windows 10 free upgrade deal with an almost single-minded determination, ignoring all the complaints and even lawsuits in an attempt to get everyone possible on the latest version of its operating system. We might have had our suspicions as to why Microsoft was so anxious to get …

Last week, Microsoft pushed an update to Windows 10 that broke DHCP and knocked some users offline until they rebooted their systems. The update is believed to have been part of cumulative update KB 3201845, which was released on December 9. After it was released, multiple European users reported being …

Microsoft has had terrible luck with Windows on smartphones. Earlier this year it announced its intention to scale back its efforts in mobile, but it’s not completely out of the game. To prove it, Microsoft has gotten a mid-tier Android phone maker to create a Windows 10 version of its …

Ever since Microsoft released the Surface RT, people have wondered whether the company would build an x86 emulator to allow ARM chips to run x86 Win32 applications. One of the reasons why the Surface RT and Surface 2 tablet families ultimately failed in the market is because they could run so …