Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

Microsoft has just released the Windows 11 25H2 preview build 26220.7344 for Insiders on the Dev and Beta Channels. The main change is the public preview of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open ...

Ever wondered what owning a computer in the 1980s was like? Outside of nostalgia, it wasn’t the best. Until 1984, unless you were in some kind of strange lab or university, nearly everything was ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has spent years trying to phase out the traditional Windows Control Panel. Since Windows 10, the company has pushed users toward a modernized settings interface, but the ...

More bandwidth as Ethernet accelerates beyond 1 Terabit, better optical connections, and optimization for AI and HPC workloads are on the way. 2024 was a banner year for Ethernet, which has been a ...

What just happened? The Control Panel has been an essential component of Microsoft Windows for decades, and was originally introduced in Windows 1.0 in the mid-80s. However, its days are numbered as ...

UPDATE: Aug. 26, 2024, 4:37 p.m. EDT Microsoft has amended its statement in the support document to say the following: "Many of the settings in Control Panel are in the process of being migrated to ...

Original Story: Windows users will soon see more of the Settings app and less of the Control Panel. "The Control Panel is in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app, which offers ...