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Microsoft has decided that a number of old modem drivers pose a security risk and thus disabled them entirely.

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Windows Windows 11 adoption hit 62.41% this month, but after a year of flatlining growth, it's unclear if this spike represents a real trend or a statistical outlier. Windows 11 After breaking PCs in ...

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