The appwiz.cpl command opens the classic Programs and Features window. This was the way to uninstall apps on older versions of Windows, before the modern Settings app came along with its slick ...

Twenty-five years ago, a little girl with a bob haircut appeared on our TVs, speaking a mix of English and Spanish, with a spunky, can-do spirit. She had an adventure planned, a ...

Time to renew your VPN subscription? Not so fast. Just because it worked in the past doesn’t mean it’s still the best choice.

If you were lucky enough to have internet access in the early '90s, it was likely through a Unix shell account over a dialup ...

Internet Explorer has one foot in the grave, but Microsoft has decided to allow customers to choose when the last scraps of its old (and mostly unloved) web browser will be removed from their ...

By exploiting relatively old Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, RIG EK has been seen distributing various malware families, including Dridex, SmokeLoader, and RaccoonStealer.

So, yes, Internet Explorer was old, outdated, and irrelevant. Very few still used it, and, those who did, could simply switch to Edge and use the built-in Internet Explorer mode to carry on.

Microsoft's old internet browser isn't the only Windows feature running on borrowed time, as the latest Windows 11 update points towards a Control Panel retirement.

If you're dying to run Internet Explorer on Windows 11, you should probably act quickly. Microsoft never intended to have the old browser work on its new OS.

By one estimate, Internet Explorer had 99 percent market share in South Korea between 2004 and 2009. “We were really the only game in town,” said James Kim, who led Microsoft in South Korea ...

… [Explorer] is still based on technology that’s 25 years old. It’s a legacy browser that’s architecturally outdated and unable to meet the security challenges of the modern web.