One of the enduring legacies of the '90s browser wars has been an outsize attention to how Microsoft handles default app settings in Windows, especially browser settings. The company plans to make it ...

Windows 11 has many frustrating and intrusive default settings, but the good news is that you don't need to put up with them. While I can't fit them into one guide, I can at least point you in the ...

Windows is generally flexible about tweaks to its system—and advanced users have long taken advantage of registry tweaks to make the OS behave. But recently, Microsoft has quietly barred access to one ...

Back in July 2024, Mozilla expressed its interest in extending Firefox support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 while others like Chrome and Edge had abandoned them. The browser-maker kept its promise and ...

This is definitely going to be a case where I'm not giving Microsoft any credit for fixing something they broke of their own accord. Windows 10's system, while far from perfect, was still worlds ...

If you’ve picked up a new laptop recently and you’re getting everything set up, you may want to switch your default browser. For Windows 11 laptops, the default is automatically Microsoft Edge.

The big picture: Microsoft recently released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23531 to the Dev Channel, bringing a couple of notable changes and a whole bunch of bug fixes. Not all the changes, ...

Microsoft will soon allow users in the European Union, as well as from Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway, to once again open all links in Windows using their default web browser rather than forcing ...

Adam Benjamin has helped people navigate complex problems for the past decade. The former digital services editor for Reviews.com, Adam now leads CNET's services and software team and contributes to ...

Previously, there was an option in the Outlook desktop app that allowed users to set Google Chrome as the default browser for Outlook links directly in Outlook settings. But in the newer version of ...