One of the more underappreciated and unheard-of tools in the Microsoft Office suite is Microsoft Access. For those unaware, Access is a database management system that uses Microsoft’s Jet Database ...
The Microsoft OLE DB Provider is an SQL tool that enables developers to write code that provides an application with ADO access to an SQL database. The OLE DB Provider is not installed by default when ...
Microsoft Defender Application Guard prevents potentially risky files from accessing trusted system resources. It opens untrusted documents in an isolated environment with hardware virtualization. It ...
Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. Microsoft has updated the Microsoft Store with multi-app install bundles, streamlining the Windows 11 PC setup process, ...
Starting in October 2025, Microsoft is going to automatically install its 365 Copilot app on Windows PCs that already have desktop versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. The rollout will continue ...
Microsoft Edge is a controversial browser that is the default internet access tool on the Windows operating system. While many users might be fine using Edge as a primary web browser on Windows, ...
Microsoft is now force-installing the Microsoft Defender for Individuals application when installing or updating the Microsoft 365 apps. It was first unveiled for Windows 11 Insiders in March 2022 and ...
Microsoft has begun force installing the PC Health Check application on Windows 10 devices using a new KB5005463 update. PC Health Check is a new diagnostics tool created by Microsoft and released in ...