89 stories tagged windows, newest first.
60 points by jllyhill | 5 comments
Marcin Wichary's archived 2021 Twitter thread explaining how a Figma Shift+numpad bug on Windows traces back to IBM PC keyboard Num Lock design decisions.
15 points by brndnbuilds | 4 comments
Landing page for Rouler, a free-beta Windows tool that routes traffic per app, IP or subnet across multiple network interfaces and VPNs.
76 points by jadenlemmon | 27 comments
QA Wolf blog post describing E2exe, their system for running Windows desktop app tests at scale from Linux using disposable VMs.
78 points by speckx | 15 comments
Blog post describing how the author got childhood Macromedia Director games running on modern hardware by working around old copy-protection mechanisms.
215 points by smokel | 61 comments
Windows Developer Blog post announcing Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) 1.0.0, a policy-driven containment system for running AI agents on Windows.
321 points by sohkamyung | 260 comments
A deep-dive blog post on the Unsung software craft blog comparing keyboard layouts, keys, and shortcut conventions between Windows PCs and Macs.
55 points by ibobev | 25 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining what happens when someone tries to hot-patch a Windows function that has already been hot-patched.
21 points by abdelhousni | 6 comments
Windows Blogs post by Microsoft's Logan Iyer announcing the general availability of WSL containers.
8 points by MilnerRoute | 1 comments
Linuxiac news article reporting that Kagi is ending Orion Browser development for Linux and Windows and plans to open-source both versions for the community.
65 points by Gorsefound | 33 comments
Homepage for Thoreau BASIC 3.2, a free 64-bit GW-BASIC-inspired interpreter with x64 JIT for Windows and bare-metal UEFI, with downloads and documentation.
171 points by pentagrama | 97 comments
Kagi blog announcement giving an update on the development of its Orion web browser for Linux and Windows.
387 points by jjbinx007 | 120 comments
An unofficial parody website imitating a Windows boot screen for a fictional 'Windows 11½' that is 'preparing your ad experience', satirizing ads in Windows.
47 points by anthuswilliams | 21 comments
Tom's Hardware news article reporting that Microsoft's new Surface laptops meet Copilot+ hardware requirements but no longer carry the Copilot+ branding.
126 points by ClydeN | 46 comments
Blog post describing a Windows bug where copying Video CD contents in Explorer stalls with transfer speed dropping to zero, with reproduction steps.
29 points by Loren_SL | 5 comments
Landing page for ForensicDbg, a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crash dumps with an MCP server, currently in private beta.
158 points by tybulewicz | 101 comments
A Raymond Chen post on The Old New Thing blog recounting the history of Windows scroll bar operations and shortcuts, including the Windows 7 right-click menu.
645 points by smartmic | 270 comments
Refund4Freedom campaign page explaining how to get a refund for the preinstalled Windows license on new laptops and listing its demands to vendors.
829 points by ComputerGuru | 411 comments
Blog post reverse engineering how Microsoft Paint and Photos embed a server-issued GUID as an invisible pixel watermark in locally generated AI images.
465 points by paulmooreparks | 149 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post recounting how a Windows x86-32 emulator team, using binary translation, patched badly written application code during emulation.
392 points by tonyrice | 273 comments
GitHub issue in the anthropics/claude-code repo reporting that Claude Desktop launches a 1.8 GB Hyper-V virtual machine on every start, even when used only for chat.
569 points by riddley | 230 comments
Landing page for Mouseless, a cross-platform app for controlling the mouse pointer with the keyboard, offering a 14-day trial and lifetime or subscription licenses.
464 points by possibilistic | 218 comments
Tom's Hardware news article reporting that GitHub banned a security researcher who posted Windows zero-day exploits and threatened further retaliation against Microsoft.
357 points by pabs3 | 197 comments
XDA Developers article reporting that the French government is moving from Windows to Linux, citing dependence on US tech as a strategic risk.
532 points by zx2c4 | 150 comments
Mailing list announcement by Jason Donenfeld of WireGuardNT v0.11 and WireGuard for Windows v0.6, with new features, bug fixes, and a raised minimum Windows version.
340 points by Teever | 151 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that the French government plans to replace Windows with Linux to reduce dependence on US technology.
746 points by embedding-shape | 358 comments
French government press release on accelerating digital sovereignty and reducing dependence on non-European tech, following an interministerial seminar.
501 points by donohoe | 186 comments
404 Media article reporting that Microsoft terminated VeraCrypt's developer account, halting the encryption software's Windows updates.
748 points by naves | 529 comments
Jeffrey Snover's blog post arguing Microsoft has lacked a coherent Windows GUI development strategy for decades since the Petzold-era Win32 programming.
407 points by domenicd | 385 comments
Domenic Denicola's blog post arguing that building native Windows desktop apps today is a confusing mess, explaining why developers turn to Electron.
567 points by hadrien01 | 1034 comments
A Windows Insider blog post by Pavan Davuluri at Microsoft about the company's commitment to improving Windows quality.
755 points by deevus | 361 comments
Blog post by Jonathan Marler about simplifying Windows native development by removing the burdensome dependency on installing Visual Studio for builds.
343 points by MrBruh | 144 comments
Blog post describing a remote code execution vulnerability found by decompiling AMD's AutoUpdate software, which AMD declined to fix.
1633 points by bobsterlobster | 1288 comments
A personal blog post explaining why the author switched from Microsoft Windows to Linux.
647 points by rorylawless | 566 comments
A Verge first-person diary column by Nathan Edwards about replacing Windows with Linux on his gaming desktop, chapter one.
389 points by lumpa | 132 comments
Blog post by CPython developer Ken Jin reporting that the tail-calling interpreter gives ~15% speedup on Windows x86-64 MSVC and ~5% on macOS AArch64 for Python 3.15.
476 points by LorenDB | 240 comments
Blog post explaining that Windows drive letters can be non A-Z characters, demonstrated by using subst to create a +:\ drive, and exploring the implications.
452 points by throwaway270925 | 334 comments
The Verge report in which Nathan Edwards explains switching his gaming desktop from Windows to Linux (CachyOS) as Linux gaming becomes more approachable.
366 points by birdculture | 64 comments
Raymond Chen's Old New Thing post explaining why a screenshot of a video pasted into Paint on old Windows appeared to keep playing the video.
506 points by meetpateltech | 324 comments
Zed blog post by Max Brunsfeld announcing that the Zed code editor is now available as a fully supported stable release on Windows.
445 points by firefoxd | 338 comments
A short blog post by Ibrahim Diallo complaining that a Windows OneDrive backup prompt offers only reminder intervals rather than a way to decline.
354 points by GalaxySnail | 94 comments
Archived GitHub repository for Google's CDC File Transfer, tools for syncing and streaming files from Windows to Linux using content-defined chunking.
512 points by sebtron | 302 comments
Blog post about photo files with date-based names sorting wrongly in Windows Explorer and Google Drive, which use natural rather than strict alphabetical ordering.
495 points by Leftium | 216 comments
A Windows ReadMe newsletter post by Chris Hoffman recommending YouTube downloader tools and explaining how Google pressure keeps tech outlets from covering them.
391 points by signa11 | 166 comments
GitHub repository with a deep dive into ACPI.sys DPC latency problems caused by firmware AML bugs on Asus ROG laptops, including decompilation and ETW traces.
362 points by Bogdanp | 160 comments
Mozilla Gfx Team blog post announcing that WebGPU is shipping on Windows in Firefox 141.
369 points by air7 | 196 comments
KrebsOnSecurity blog post explaining that many ransomware strains refuse to install on Windows systems with Russian or other CIS-language virtual keyboards installed.
635 points by todsacerdoti | 167 comments
Blog post explaining how to make a Windows VM report a CPU fan via WMI's Win32_Fan class so malware's anti-VM checks pass and samples run.
432 points by feross | 327 comments
Signal blog post from May 2025 explaining that Signal Desktop on Windows now blocks screenshots by default to keep chats out of Microsoft Recall.
1489 points by pentagrama | 1033 comments
Microsoft Windows Developer blog post announcing that the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has been released as open source.
329 points by todsacerdoti | 166 comments
A blog post recounting the author's experience reverse engineering Windows Security Center (WSC) while building defendnot, a tool to disable Windows Defender.
325 points by toxi360 | 181 comments
GitHub repository for a lightweight native Windows todo application written in pure C using the Win32 API, with tray support and MIT license.
490 points by MrBruh | 230 comments
A blog post describing a one-click remote code execution vulnerability found in ASUS's preinstalled DriverHub driver software.
718 points by airstrike | 891 comments
PCWorld news article reporting that Microsoft will preload Office at Windows startup to address slow Office launch times.
326 points by pbohun | 386 comments
Blog post arguing for a Linux distribution that runs Windows binaries by default via Wine, citing Linux userland binary compatibility problems with libc.
367 points by Tomte | 95 comments
Simon Tatham's blog post on the history and evolution of the PuTTY tools' icons, from hand-drawn designs through scripted rendering to an SVG revamp.
342 points by notmine1337 | 126 comments
Orange Tsai's blog post presenting WorstFit, a class of Windows vulnerabilities arising from Best-Fit character conversion between UTF-16 and ANSI code pages.
352 points by pierremenard | 169 comments
A 2016 Unity engineering blog post recounting how developers tracked down a memory corruption bug where an unknown source wrote the value 2 into the stack.
381 points by Sami_Lehtinen | 156 comments
GitHub repository for ntfs2btrfs, a GPL-2.0 tool that converts an NTFS filesystem to Btrfs in place.
495 points by thunderbong | 215 comments
A LearnHub blog post celebrating the 21st anniversary of the Notepad++ text editor and recounting its history.
643 points by gjvc | 291 comments
GitHub repository from WinampDesktop containing the source code of the Winamp legacy desktop media player, released for community contributions.
592 points by tuxuser | 267 comments
MASSGRAVE blog post describing Keyhole, a bug in Windows licensing that allows forging Microsoft Store licenses to bypass activation checks.
385 points by jjwiseman | 295 comments
Blog post by John Wiseman examining how the July 19, 2024 CrowdStrike Windows update outage affected aviation and flight operations.
318 points by nar001 | 304 comments
Microsoft Security blog post by David Weston on Windows security best practices for integrating security tools, including a technical analysis of the CrowdStrike outage.
457 points by moreati | 254 comments
Brendan Gregg blog post arguing that eBPF-based security agents would prevent kernel crashes like the July 2024 CrowdStrike Windows outage.
480 points by pilfered | 607 comments
A post on X by Patrick Wardle sharing initial technical details on why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys driver crashed Windows machines.
631 points by raasdnil | 368 comments
Australian Financial Review news article reporting a global IT outage on July 19, 2024 that hit banks, airlines, miners and media companies.
4367 points by BLKNSLVR | 3677 comments
Reddit r/crowdstrike thread reporting Windows blue screens and boot loops after a CrowdStrike update; the captured page shows a Reddit network security block.
429 points by wild_pointer | 497 comments
Blog post by Samuel Tulach describing the difficulty of finding a suitable C++ GUI library for Windows-only commercial desktop applications.
540 points by toby_tw | 229 comments
Landing page for Cyber Scarecrow, alpha software that runs in the background to make a computer look like a security research environment, deterring malware.
444 points by georgehill | 397 comments
Wired article reporting that Microsoft will make its AI Recall screen-recording feature opt-in and add privacy protections after security criticism.
364 points by whereistimbo | 174 comments
Homepage of WinDirStat, an open-source disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows with treemap visualization.
329 points by skilled | 460 comments
Official Microsoft Blog post from May 20, 2024 by Yusuf Mehdi announcing Copilot+ PCs, a new category of AI-focused Windows PCs.
370 points by ksec | 205 comments
Bun blog post announcing version 1.1 of the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime and toolkit, highlighted by Windows support ("Bundows").
446 points by omnibrain | 268 comments
Homepage of IrfanView, a fast, compact freeware graphic viewer for Windows, offering downloads, plugins, skins, and support information.
337 points by pentagrama | 137 comments
Ollama blog post from February 15, 2024 announcing a preview release of Ollama for Windows.
361 points by fiddyschmitt | 172 comments
GitHub repository for SimpleKVM, a Windows GUI tool that switches monitor inputs when a USB switch changes, letting multiple PCs share one keyboard, mouse and monitors.
526 points by zadjii | 388 comments
Microsoft Windows Command Line blog post announcing Sudo for Windows, letting users run elevated commands from an unelevated console in Windows 11 Insider Preview.
372 points by ChrisArchitect | 240 comments
Mozilla Research report on how Microsoft uses design tactics and dark patterns in Windows to push Edge and undermine users' browser choice.
411 points by overbytecode | 128 comments
GitHub repository for Quickemu, a tool that quickly creates and runs optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines using QEMU.
425 points by todsacerdoti | 225 comments
Quansight Labs blog post on how SciPy was built for Python 3.12 on Windows, including the move to the Flang Fortran compiler.
475 points by quyleanh | 224 comments
GitHub repository for SumatraPDF, an open-source GPL-licensed PDF and document reader for Windows written in C/C++.
331 points by chatmasta | 95 comments
News article reporting that Microsoft Defender misidentified the Tor Browser as a trojan and removed it from users' systems.
833 points by mycall | 484 comments
Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog post arguing that overly aggressive uninstallers end up behaving like malware on Windows.
387 points by tapoxi | 281 comments
Microsoft Learn documentation listing limits and specifications for Microsoft Teams, including restrictions on channel names such as reserved MS-DOS device names.
771 points by mfwit | 539 comments
Microsoft support article explaining that links in the Outlook app for Microsoft 365 subscribers now open in Microsoft Edge alongside the email by default.
392 points by adrian_mrd | 271 comments
Gizmodo news article reporting that Microsoft broke a Google Chrome feature on Windows in order to push users toward its Edge browser.
456 points by susam | 206 comments
A personal blog post describing installing and booting Windows from a btrfs filesystem using the WinBtrfs driver and the open source Quibble bootloader.
381 points by sharevari | 259 comments
A Fileside blog post explaining the many unusual formats and quirks of Windows file paths, such as drive letters, UNC paths, and device namespaces.
918 points by alexzeitler | 710 comments
Personal blog post by Thomas Bandt recounting his history with Windows and why setting it up as his son's first computer didn't work out.