ClearDefenderHistory.cmd clears the Windows Defender "Protection history" by creating a scheduled task, configured to run as SYSTEM, that clears the Windows Defender logs on next restart of the ...

Microsoft open-sourced 86-DOS 1.00 source code on GitHub for its 45th anniversary, according to PCWorld, including kernel and PC-DOS development snapshots. This historically significant software, ...

PC-DOS 1.00 would lead to Microsoft becoming computing's top dog Microsoft continues to embrace open source. The source code and annotations provide insight into the operating system's earliest days.

Project Leyden is an OpenJDK project that aims to improve startup time, time to peak performance, and footprint of the Java platform. One of its features is the AOT (Ahead-of-Time) Cache (also known ...

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Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

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The August 2025 (KB5063878) Windows update caused an issue that prevented non-admin users from carrying out several vital operations due to misbehaving UAC prompts. Microsoft has since released its ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. We describe our winning submission to the first Critical Assessment of Computational ...