Microsoft finally acknowledged complaints about Windows 11. The company is promising sweeping changes to a slew of features. Windows Insiders will have a greater voice in upcoming releases.

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows updates released since August 29, 2025, are breaking authentication on systems sharing Security Identifiers. Windows uses unique alphanumeric strings known as ...

Microsoft has reminded customers today that the last supported editions of Windows 11 22H2 will reach their end of servicing on October 14. This announcement applies to Windows 11 22H2 Enterprise, ...

A new ad for Windows 11, and by extension new Windows 11-powered laptops, has been posted to the official Windows YouTube channel. It’s called “Right side of risk.” Uh-oh. The 30-second spot once ...

After installing luarocks in Cygwin, it looks like it thinks it's running under Windows. Therefore it uses Win32-style commands instead of Posix. As is it's completely useless, since nearly every ...

Port, build and verify packages depending on Cygwin runtime/toolchain needed for Git for Windows Installer distribution package. The detailed list of those packages can be found in to be added. All ...

Modern Windows PCs often include some kind of biometric hardware, mainly in the form of facial recognition (using infrared cameras) or fingerprint scanning. Both of these features let you use Windows ...

Looking for a desktop tool to document up your next schematic? Check out the XCircuit project which offers a free open-source desktop drawing tool that outputs your schematic in a postscript format.

If you have access to a Windows machine, it might be simpler to install mingw on it and compile on it directly. (And mingw's gcc won't generate binaries that depend on cygwin1.dll.) ...

X speed under Cygwin has increased greatly since it was first released a while ago. However, which makes more sense: emulating Linux (to run lots of apps) under Windows (to run a few apps), or ...