Microsoft fixed over 150 vulnerabilities on Update Tuesday in January. These include 11 security vulnerabilities categorised as critical and several Windows vulnerabilities that are already being exploited for attacks.

Microsoft kicked off 2025 with a new set of patches for a total of 161 security vulnerabilities across its software portfolio, including three zero-days that have been actively exploited in attacks. Of the 161 flaws,

Microsoft today unleashed updates to plug a whopping 161 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including three “zero-day” weaknesses that are already under active attack. Redmond’s inaugural Patch Tuesday of 2025 bundles more fixes than the company has shipped in one go since 2017.

Edge PDF reader has some rough edges, such as the PDF reader being slow on low-end PCs, but that could change soon.

Microsoft will end support for Microsoft 365 for Windows 10 this October, so you'll need to buy a new Windows 11 PC.

Microsoft is pulling yet another trick to get people to use its Bing search engine. If you use Bing right now without signing into a Microsoft account and search for Google, you’ll get a page that looks an awful lot like... Google.

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Google has suddenly hit back hard after Microsoft was seemingly caught capturing and diverting Google users within its Windows ecosystem. “New year, new low,” one Google exec posted on X, accusing the Windows-maker of “a long history of tricks to confuse users and limit choice.”