Microsoft's Smart App Control used to be pointless, but it's about to become a lot more usable. Here's what's changing.

If you are using a Gigabyte motherboard or laptop, you already know how important the Gigabyte Control Center (GCC) is, as it lets you manage your system more effectively by controlling RGB lighting, ...

Popular secure messaging platform Signal is now available to download via the Microsoft Store on Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs. The app is a classic Win32 program, which lets you sync your Signal ...

Microsoft has announced the Store CLI, a command-line interface for managing and installing Windows apps from the Microsoft Store. It's similar to WinGet, except the Store CLI only works for apps that ...

It's officially time to let go. Windows 10 has been over as we know it for some time now, only for Windows 11 to have taken over. To finalize things even further, Microsoft ended support for the ...

PCWorld highlights Smart App Control, a crucial Windows 11 security feature that screens apps through Microsoft’s cloud service to protect against malware and compromised executables. A February 2026 ...

Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10 last October. Many PCs with Windows 10 don't pass Microsoft's strict requirement check. It's possible to bypass this and ...

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