Darren Allan

Microsoft's Gaming Copilot is now in Windows 11's Game Bar - and it looks nifty, but I'm worried about the AI on handhelds.

Microsoft just minimized the annoyance with one Windows 11 nag – then put in a much worse one.

We look at the gpt‑oss‑20b and gpt‑oss-120b AI models, their system requirements, and how you can install them on your PC.

The Game Bar has a crucial feature for some Ryzen X3D CPUs - and it's now broken, which is seriously bad news.

Windows in 2030 will be about sophisticated AI and voice commands according to a Microsoft executive's prediction.

Preparing for your upgrade to Windows 11? Microsoft has some new advice that could be very handy.

Windows 11's taskbar could be infused with AI – but do we really need more AI agents in the OS?

Recall is under fire again as a report points out security slips that are distinctly worrying.

Microsoft dips into its underhand promo playbook (again), this time pushing Copilot AI via Bing.

Microsoft has long been gunning for Chromebooks, but its latest effort to secure a piece of the low-cost laptop market has failed dismally.

Driver support for Pascal GPUs like the GTX 1060 ends in October 2025, and Windows 10 users have until October 2026.

AMD could soon make dedicated NPUs in the same vein as discrete graphics cards - and if you think that sounds boring, think again, PC gamers.

It's easy to transfer from Windows 10 to a Windows 11 PC, Microsoft boasts - if you fork out for OneDrive (but there are free alternatives).

There are scattered reports of a Windows 11 upgrade popping up on Windows 10 PCs that aren't eligible for the OS, and it looks like a bug.

Lisa Su argues that while AMD CPUs could be up to 20% pricier if made in the US, that trade-off is worth it in terms of diversifying the supply chain.

If you're a member of the multiple monitor club, you're going to love this small but highly convenient tweak.

Does your mouse cursor randomly get larger at times in Windows 11? This annoying bug has reportedly been fixed.

If you weren't excited about Nvidia's rumored consumer CPU, this benchmark leak showing its core count equals an RTX 5070 GPU should do the trick.

Here's what you need to know about the Tea data breach - and what to do if you think you might be affected.

It's still under development, but a new tool called Operese aims to deliver an in-place upgrade to Kubuntu from Windows 10.

I don't know if there's a way back for Intel with PC gamers – but if there is, it's this rumored plan for Nova Lake to get more cache.

Windows 11 has a new Phone Link feature that impressed me - the ability to lock the PC remotely with an Android device.

Is the latest version of Windows 11 the 'most reliable yet'? This is going to bring out the 24H2 haters in force.

There's a swarm of questions buzzing around the idea Luckey floated, including what OS the theoretical laptop would run.