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Windows 11 is Microsoft's desktop operating system, whose updates, security controls, and flaws affect the protection of PCs and their data.

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Windows 11 is Microsoft’s desktop operating system for personal computers and organizational endpoints. Its security model can use hardware-backed protections such as TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot, while virtualization-based security (VBS), credential isolation, Microsoft Defender, and Windows Hello help protect the boot process, credentials, and user sessions. These controls depend on compatible hardware, enabled policies, and correctly configured drivers and applications; they are not automatic protection against every attack.

For security teams, Windows 11 is a major vulnerability-management and endpoint-monitoring scope. Monthly updates address flaws that may enable privilege escalation, remote code execution, or security-control bypass, while third-party software, kernel drivers, and misconfigured services add attack surface. Organizations should maintain supported builds, test and deploy patches, verify Secure Boot and VBS posture, protect recovery and administrator credentials, and retain telemetry useful for detecting persistence or lateral movement. Hardware and configuration differences also matter when assessing exposure and forensic evidence.

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If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you? Opinion It's been another shabby week for Microsoft, and a shabbier one for its users. We learnt that Windows 11's epic habit of trying to corral customers into paid-for Microsoft services just got worse with a low-rent trick. Remote Desktop got a bit more secure, which is good, but in a way that suggests not too much user testing took place. As for GitHub… GitHub got two helpings of Chef Redmondo's Special Sauce.…

The Register 5 May 2026, 8:30 p.m. Github Microsoft Windows 11

Total Recall: Capturing everything you do on your PC screen to become a 'true companion' Microsoft is again throwing AI at Windows 11 to see what sticks, releasing features including the even more eyebrow-raising successor to its controversial Recall, a screen-streaming remotely processed backseat driver dubbed Copilot Vision.…

The Register 24 Jul 2025, 1:01 a.m. Artificial Intelligence Microsoft Windows 11

Redmond hopes you’ve forgotten or got over why everyone hated it the first time After temporarily shelving its controversial Windows Recall feature amid a wave of backlash, Microsoft is back at it - now quietly slipping the screenshotting app into the Windows 11 Release Preview channel for Copilot+ PCs, signaling its near-readiness for general availability.…

The Register 12 Apr 2025, 11:13 a.m. Microsoft Windows 11
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Helping Windows 11 fight the hackers

How Intel is using hardware-assisted security to beef up Microsoft OS protection Sponsored Feature When Windows 11 launched in October 2021, one of its big selling points was a new security architecture. Microsoft designed it from the ground up with zero-trust principles in mind, refusing to trust the legitimacy of any single system component. Instead, everything must prove that it has not been compromised.…

The Register 8 Jun 2023, 9:07 p.m. Compromise Intel Corporation Microsoft Windows 11 Zero Trust