During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. Microsoft on Tuesday said it has bought Winternals ...

Microsoft on Tuesday said it has bought Winternals Software, a small maker of Windows utility programs, in a deal that the software maker hopes will add key technical talent to its operating system ...

Microsoft offers a vast array of first-party PC apps for Windows 11 - here are five more of my favorites that I always download on any new computer.

Microsoft's PowerToys suite for Windows 11 is highly capable, but these third-party apps offer the additional PC flexibility ...

Most software developers working on Windows have a pretty standard roster of tools: a code editor or IDE; Git or another version control system; a messaging client (whether Slack or one of its clones) ...

You can find a better tool for just about any system task without paying a cent. Start with the firewall, which most people would consider an indispensable piece of software. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

DVDVideoSoft is a company that designs and creates some of the best free utility software for Windows systems. You will find both application software and system software on their website. Given that ...

Of all the changes coming to your desktop with Windows 10, one of the most radical is that Microsoft will no longer let you pick and choose updates to download and install. Instead, when an update is ...