On August 24, 2025, Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system turns 30. Feeling old yet? Windows Central is a big fan of the operating system, often covering nostalgic bits, including its birthday, the ...

Microsoft is once again tightening its grip on the Windows 11 setup process, disabling another popular workaround for creating a local user account. The change, detailed in the latest Insider Preview ...

Microsoft Paint is the first app to get new experimental AI features. Microsoft Paint is the first app to get new experimental AI features. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...

Microsoft has removed a compatibility hold that prevented devices with integrated cameras from installing Windows 11 24H2 due to a face detection bug causing app freezes. The issues were triggered ...

Microsoft has rolled out the Live Interpreter API in public preview, expanding its Azure Speech Translation platform. The new feature will eliminate the need to pre-select an input language by ...

On September 12, 2025, Microsoft announced the Live Interpreter API in public preview, expanding its Azure AI Speech portfolio. The new service enables real-time speech-to-speech translation across 76 ...

Several Windows 10 and 11 users report Microsoft Edge crashing the moment they hit Print, especially with PDFs. The issue is usually linked to the Windows print subsystem, sloppy extensions, ...

Microsoft has released several emergency patches (so-called “out-of-band” updates) to address some important issues: update KB5066189 for Windows 11 23H2 and 22H2, KB5066188 for Windows 10 22H2 and ...

Dark mode in Windows has never been comprehensive, but new changes from Microsoft may be fixing some of its most egregious problems. With over a decade of experience reporting on consumer technology, ...

If you see Install, click on that button. Alternatively, select Repair if that’s the option presented in the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 file. Repeat the previous steps for the X86 (32-bit) Visual ...

Microsoft issued an emergency fix to close off a vulnerability in its SharePoint software that hackers have exploited to carry out widespread attacks on businesses and at least some federal agencies.

If you’re like me, using AirPods 4 for work calls on a locked-down Windows 11 laptop, you may have noticed painfully low Volume during MS Teams meetings. Despite being at full Volume, the sound can be ...