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Windows PowerShell 2.0 is being removed from Windows images, and the change—announced in an August 11, 2025 Microsoft support bulletin—begins rolling into production builds in late summer and early fall 2025; organizations that still depend on the legacy PowerShell 2.0 engine must inventory...

Microsoft has announced a definitive end to an era: Windows PowerShell 2.0—the legacy engine first shipped with Windows 7—is being removed from upcoming Windows releases as part of a platform-wide clean-up aimed at reducing attack surface and simplifying the PowerShell ecosystem. This removal is...

Microsoft’s 50th anniversary was celebrated in a way only a tech giant reinventing itself could manage—merging the nostalgia of a storied past with the relentless pulse of future innovation. At an event held in a dark conference hall that could easily pass for a rock concert, Microsoft’s leaders...

Microsoft’s journey to a $2.9 trillion empire isn’t just a story of brilliant code and innovative products—it’s also a tale of dynamic individuals whose leadership and decisions helped shape modern computing. One such figure is Steve Ballmer, a man whose fervor and managerial prowess elevated...

Microsoft is celebrating a monumental 50 years of innovation and evolution, and this anniversary event is serving as a fitting tribute to its storied legacy. With a special Copilot event taking center stage, Microsoft is blending its rich history with bold moves into the future. Let’s dive into...

Microsoft’s 50th anniversary isn’t just a celebration of decades of innovation—it’s a clarion call for a future radically reimagined through artificial intelligence. In a planned media event on April 4 at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters, the tech giant is set to unveil a suite of AI-powered...

I sometimes watch videos like deleting the program files folder, setting date to crazy big values and breaking win 11/10 every other possible way. In many cases modern windows starts slowly transforming into win 7/XP. Like alt-tab menu from XP, task manager from 7 and other weird things I wonder...

Capt Grace Hopper, 1906-1992 Widely known as Capt. in fact rear admiral, brilliant, best know for COBOL. She once was the key-note speaker on a DECUS-Europe meeting, unforgettable: "Proud te be in the US Navy".

Windows 10 x64 desktop BIOS legacy. Fresh reinstallation of Windows, but the PC cannot wake up after it has fallen asleep, no matter what settings I use in the Power Settings. I have set the PC screen to sleep after about 1hour, and the Disks to sleep after 4 hours. After the disks go to sleep...

Hello there, I want know can I still use window 8 in 2021. Because now a days window 10 is very in and it is very efficient and they doing updates regularly. If I use window 8 is there any security risk because it is no updated

Our new modern browser, Microsoft Edge, debuted over a year ago and today can be found on hundreds of millions of devices. Last August, we announced that Microsoft Edge Legacy desktop application support would end on March 9, 2021 as part of this transition to the new Microsoft Edge. Today...

KB5000788: Suppress the notification that Microsoft Edge Legacy support ended Continue reading...

Hi Thanks for calling in. I thought I'd be clever and 'have a go' at installing Android on my Windows Machine 'not a good idea' as half way through the installation it threw its legs up and decided it was not going to install. Now when I boot into Windows 10 I get GRUB and have to EXIT twice...

Hello guys, Is there any way I can install Teamviewer on Windows98 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have an old Toshiba Qosmio F10 15" Laptop from 2004 with Intel Pentium M735 1.7ghz and 2GB ram. As far as I know, I can install only Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 and maybe Windows 8, didn't tried. I know that I can install Linux that is 10x better on this old machine, but I would...

When using an old console editor, compiled with Borland C, I find that some characters do not paste from the clipboard, viz: ) * + : ; < = > ? @ ^ l (upper case L is ok!). All paste ok in other console applications, and when using the legacy console! Does anyone have an...

In this tutorial we will be manually creating the system boot partition. This is for a system that is BIOS booting (sometimes referred to as legacy or legacy CSM) which utilizes the MBR. The MBR is the first sector on the hard drive that contains a small first stage boot loader which hands the...

I have a Dell xps 8700 pc with Windows 10 installed. I cloned my new wd hdd from a ssd card. In the bios under UEFI boot the hdd does not show up in the boot order, but does show up in the Legacy boot order. I played around for a few hours with this but to no avail. Any help to get it to boot...

If I remember correctly, XP's EOL had a HUGE reaction because of all the people's fond memories of it. So Win7's will be that, but bigger in my personal opinion.

I got myself a Silicon Image 3114 SATA Controller which is capable of RAIDing two discs. I have two SSD sporting approx. 230 GB each. I wanted to enable RAID 0 (striping) to have one "virtual" drive of 450 GB. I followed the steps below: Installed the 3114 PCI card on my board. Connected the...