Windows 8 stunk. It might have helped cost chief executive Steve Ballmer his job. Windows 8.1 was a bit better — but if you love it, you have only a month or so left to enjoy it. Microsoft will kill ...

The company has announced the end of Windows 8.1 support will hit in January 2023, at which point anyone still running Microsoft's old OS will be unprotected from any new system vulnerabilities that ...