Microsoft will remove PowerShell 2.0 from Windows starting in August, eight years after announcing its deprecation and keeping it around as an optional feature. The 14-year-old command processor ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Hot on the heels of the NSA publishing a “high-risk of ...

Microsoft has "suspended" its SQL Server on Windows Containers project, as announced in a short blog post on July 5. Microsoft is advising those interested in running SQL Server in containers to go ...

Microsoft announced Monday that Windows Server 2025 is now generally available. The company said the latest release of one of its flagship products will enable organizations to deploy applications ...

Microsoft announced today that it will integrate Sysmon natively into Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 next year, making it unnecessary to deploy the standalone Sysinternals tools. "Next year, ...

In the past couple of days, reports about about a Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) bug have emerged, which renders USB devices useless. Microsoft released a patch already for this particular ...

Last year in December, Microsoft began deprecating all versions of NTLM (NT LAN Manager) protocol on Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025. This meant that it was no longer in active development and ...

In announcing the next version of Windows Server, Microsoft set the stage for TPM, so hardware makers know what’s coming. By now you’ve heard about the kerfuffle surrounding Windows 11 and its ...

Here we go again: another Microsoft Windows update, another feature broken as a result. This time it’s VPN access. Here’s ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure-enabled ...

When trying to install SolidWorks on a Windows computer, you may encounter an issue when the installation is trying to install Microsoft SQL Server. So, the installation works fine until it reaches ...