Windows 10 PCs can receive free security updates until October 2026. To qualify for free personal updates, enroll with a Microsoft account. Customers in any of the 30 EEA countries automatically ...

Facepalm: Users experiencing issues with certain videos not playing on Dell or HP laptops running recent CPUs might not realize that both companies have recently disabled H.265 video encoding and ...

HP and Dell has disabled support for the High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard in some of their laptops, Ars Technica reports. HEVC is a codec that enables the compression of large videos into ...

Windows 10 supports video files encoded using High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265 video. Microsoft charges for its official codecs and doesn't include them in Windows 10. However, ...

I think it might improve the situation if the patent laws were changed so that decoding any data is explicitly non-patentable. You could still allow patents on improved methods of encoding data, but ...

With the first Patch Tuesday following Windows 10’s end of support approaching next week, users who continue to run the operating system should enroll in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program to ...

Windows users are, understandably, given the size of the operating system market share, a prime target for attackers of all kinds, from nation-state espionage actors to hackers and scammers. Windows ...

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Microsoft Killed Off Windows 10 Support. Here's How to Get It Free for Another Year Effective Oct. 14, Microsoft no longer supports Windows 10, but there are three ways to extend critical security ...