Republished on May 13 with reaction to Microsoft’s u-turn and a Patch Tuesday full of active exploits — a timely warning not to lose security support. No one saw this coming. Microsoft’s campaign to ...

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

Don't leave it too late, Microsoft tells users. This should have been a huge milestone for Microsoft, one years in the making. But instead it’s overshadowed by a critical new decision for 400 million ...