An Ars forum member by the name of adminfoo recently installed Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) to see what all the fuss was about. To his surprise, the security solution quickly labeled him as a ...

In my last post, I demonstrated how to write an AppleScript that verbally announces when new emails arrive in Mail. Some readers asked whether the same thing could be accomplished with Microsoft ...

Microsoft has released a PowerShell script that helps Windows 10 users securely contribute their computer's unused processing power to Folding@home. Distributed-computing disease research project ...

Microsoft has released a beta of its .Net port to Python. IronPython 1.0 Beta 1, which was released at the end of last week, is "well integrated" with the rest of the .Net programming framework and ...

Microsoft has released Script Browser 1.0, an add-in search tool that works with PowerShell's integrated scripting environment. This version of Script Browser has an experimental feature called ...

Microsoft has released a PowerShell script that allows you to quickly start donating your CPU cycles to the Folding@Home project by deploying the program in the Windows 10 Sandbox. The Folding@Home ...

Like many developers, I’ve been exploring every new Windows 10 Insider Preview build, paying special attention to Microsoft’s new Edge browser. Although Windows 10 hasn’t been officially released, ...

You can use PowerShell scripts to automate various tasks in Windows and other operating systems, like organizing data, searching for files or fetching data from the Internet. You can't actually run ...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of a PowerShell script for checking hardware readiness for Windows 11 upgrades, and promised an Endpoint Analytics tool will be arriving "over the next few ...

According to a leaked script, Microsoft is seemingly preparing to complete the final build of Windows 11’s first major update, due out later this year. This upcoming update will be the first major ...