Windows

OpenSSH ships in Windows, sshd comes preinstalled on Server 2025, and PowerShell 7 remotes over SSH natively. A twenty-year follow-up to the Cygwin kludge, including the key-permissions gotcha that still bites everyone.

Learn how to enable PowerShell remoting over SSH today using /N software's NetCmdlets V2.0, without waiting for Microsoft's native implementation.

Examining why Windows setup ignores other operating systems during installation, and how Linux solved this problem years ago.

Videos playing with strange, washed-out colors? Learn how incorrect NVidia video playback settings can affect all your media players and how to fix it.

How to safely test Firefox Bon Echo alpha builds using Altiris Software Virtualization Solution to isolate the install from your system.

Got locked out of my own Windows PC after making security too tight, then discovered XP's safe mode makes it pointless. A story about fixing old computers.

A critical examination of PowerShell's verbose command syntax and how it fails to deliver on its promise of a modern Windows shell alternative to Unix commands.

Schneier breaks down Vista's flawed security model and Microsoft's failure to learn from proven approaches in other operating systems.