Darren Allan

Find it hard to grasp how powerful your PC is? Windows 11’s (potential) feature to explain that in a simple and punchy way looks like it’s coming along nicely.

Microsoft’s sending out emails to push Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11, while promoting OneDrive (again) and the idea of buying a new PC (again).

Windows 11’s Settings app seemingly continues its ultra-slow digestion of the Control Panel, with mouse options apparently next on the menu.

This much better version of voice commands remains in testing, but when it comes to release, hopefully it’ll be available for all Copilot+ PCs, not just Arm-based laptops.

AMD appears to have leapt to an eye-opening sales share of 45% in Japan, according to info from a press event held by Team Red.

Windows 11 updates are reportedly causing havoc with crashes and PC boot failures – and an odd bug that uninstalls Copilot is embarrassing for Microsoft.

Nvidia might lay out its battle plan to take on AMD’s RX 9060 graphics cards as soon as tomorrow.

How many adverts are too many ads in Windows 11? Whatever your tolerance level, there’s another one in the OS thanks to the latest update.

Is 8GB enough? Some gamers would argue it isn’t, especially for future-proofing, but it’s increasingly seeming like this rumored spec is right.

AMD’s RX 9070 GPUs should be back in stock very soon, we’re told by an exec – though some gamers are still worried about pricing.

Windows 11 is getting yet another pop-up, but I’ll give this particular bit of nagging a pass as it could be useful.

Some gamers are disappointed with the rumored spec of the RTX 5050, but even if it pans out like this, I wouldn’t dismiss the GPU so readily.

Incoming new ‘recommendations’ for Windows 11 users look like a positive step forward, and thankfully there are no adverts here.

If AMD has Nvidia on the ropes now, rumored RX 9070 XTX model that’s faster than the RTX 5070 Ti could be a knockout blow.

The (rare) problem with missing rendering pipelines only applies to desktop graphics cards, not the laptop variety for RTX 5000.

Corsair is guaranteeing prebuilt PCs with RTX 5000 cards aren’t affected by the hardware-level GPU fault, while backing up Nvidia’s assertion that it’s a rare glitch.

While the MSRP should hold fast with the first batch of GPUs sold, it could ‘jump’ after that initial (subsidized by AMD) quantity of graphics cards has been shifted.

Asus reveals Nvidia RTX 5070 launch pricing, and it looks steep in places – complete with hints that GPU stock could be shaky, too. Sigh...

Here’s how Notepad’s new Rewrite feature works, and what you need to get the ChatGPT-powered ability.

Nvidia RTX 5070 GPUs appear at MSRP in apparent early glimmers of hopeful pricing – but I really wouldn’t read much into this.

AMD’s new RDNA 4 graphics cards will only support UEFI, and we’ll explain exactly what this means for your gaming PC.

A highly efficient solar panel in a laptop lid? Lenovo’s Yoga Solar PC is turning heads at MWC 2025 and it’s a genuinely exciting new laptop concept.

Confused by Task Manager seemingly getting CPU usage wrong in Windows 11? Don’t worry, Microsoft has cleared up what’s going on here.

Some folks seem to believe that the end is nigh for uBlock Origin – and maybe other popular extensions for Edge – but it very much isn’t (yet).

New piece of stealth advertising in Windows 11 is a warning to back up your PC – and while that’s good advice, not everyone needs prodding to use OneDrive.