Every month, it seems, Microsoft changes the way it updates the current pre-release version of Windows. With the first Technical Preview builds, we got monthly updates. But this month, we see the first-ever Update Rollup for Windows 10 Technical Preview 2. And it’s a doozy, from the looks of things, fixing a laundry list of…

If you travel internationally, you’ll need the right adapters so you can use your PCs and gadgets abroad. But you will also need to be careful of adapters that can’t switch voltages. Ken K. asks: I remember your segment last summer about your trip to Europe.  What did you do for chargers for your gadgets? …

With February right around the corner, Microsoft has announced which games it will give away for free for those with Xbox Live Gold subscriptions. As is usually the case, Xbox One owners will get one free game in February, while Xbox 360 owners will get two. As I noted in Got Xbox Live Gold? Then…

I’m heading to Redmond next week for Microsoft’s Windows 10 consumer event, but anyone can watch the main presentation from the comfort of their own web browser as Microsoft will be live-streaming the event. Here’s what you need to know to watch as it all unfolds. When: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 9 am PT/12…

If you are familiar with my game-playing habits, you know I spend a lot of time with “Call of Duty” and not that much time with anything else. One of the reasons this has been sustainable over the past several years is that Activision supports each COD game with a series of DLC downloads—which includes…

If you’re coming to Windows 8.1 from Windows 7, I’ve got bad news: in this latest Windows version, Microsoft has badly melded a mobile OS into the desktop version of Windows, and it has removed key user interfaces you’ve come to know and master. The software giant is fixing these problems in Windows 10, but…

In the latest episode of Windows Weekly, Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley and I discuss the PC news from CES 2015, Intel's new chipsets, what to expect from this month's Windows 10 event, a new Spartan web browser coming in Windows 10, Intel Compute Stick, Office for Android tablet news, Windows Phone news and PS4's…