Microsoft’s strict Windows 11 requirements have turned a routine upgrade into a referendum on who deserves modern software.

Microsoft isn't just reserving watermarks for unactivated or bootlegged Windows copies. The Verge has learned that the most recent Windows 11 Release Preview build (22000.588) applies a watermark to ...

An upcoming version of Windows 11 will nag anyone who circumvented the hardware requirements with an "unsupported" watermark on the desktop. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

Support ended, but they never stopped delivering ...

Today, Microsoft announced a new Windows 11 update for Insiders in the Beta channel. Along with the update, Microsoft also made a couple of announcements to provide clarity around Windows 11. Firstly, ...

Well that didn’t take long. Mere hours after announcing Windows 11’s October 5 release date, the company is booting Windows Insider preview PCs with unsupported hardware out of Windows 11 testing. The ...

Microsoft first unveiled Windows 11 in June of last year, but the announcement was quickly met with criticism in response to some of the operating system's strict ...

Affected PCs weren’t able to upgrade this time, but it’s the second in less than a year that Microsoft has made this mistake. Affected PCs weren’t able to upgrade this time, but it’s the second in ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is currently experimenting with two new methods to warn ...