Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? The Control Panel has been an essential component of Microsoft Windows for ...

Since the debut of Windows 8 in 2012, Microsoft has been eager to replace the aged Control Panel with the newer Settings app. The transition so far has been slow and gradual. Based on a couple of ...

This may not be a surprise for many Windows users. Since October 2020, Microsoft has been redirecting users away from the Control Panel, goading them to use the Settings app instead. "The Settings app ...

Still, the nearly 40 year old feature has existed in some form since 1985 when Windows 1.0 appeared. However, Microsoft has never put it down in writing that Control Panel would disappear.

Microsoft is fixing more than seventy security and other vulnerabilities in its September Patch Tuesday update. Of particular ...

T he end is nigh for Control Panel as Microsoft says that it plans to deprecate the 39-year-old settings interface.

When Steve Jobs left Apple he hoped to make a big impact with computers for education. But NeXT ended up teaching the ...

Microsoft’s most infamous rebrand is not related to AI. Back in the late 2000s, Microsoft developed a phone line initially called the “Windows 7 Phone Series.” The unnecessarily long and confusing ...

Indie sensation passes major milestone shortly after 1.0 release LONDON, UK – September 16th, 2024 – Fireshine Games and Pugstorm are thrilled to announce that mining sandbox adventure Core Keeper has ...

In its latest Patch Tuesday cumulative update, Microsoft has confirmed an embarassing bug which broke older security patches ...

Windows 11 versions 22H2 and 23H2 are not the only operating systems Microsoft updated today with non-security patches. The so-called C-update is also available for Windows 11 version 24H2 ...