Microsoft Is Finally Retiring Its Free Scanner App (but There Are Alternatives)

Microsoft is officially retiring Microsoft Lens, the company's document scanner app. The company had previously announced it ...
PCMag

Still Using Microsoft Lens? You Only Have a Few Weeks to Find an Alternative

As spotted by Neowin, Microsoft recently changed its support documentation to say the app begins its retirement process from ...

Save $100 Off the Asus ROG Xbox Ally Handheld Gaming PC From Amazon

The Xbox Ally is a recently released model (October 2025) featuring the new AMD Ryzen Z2 A CPU, 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and a ...

Microsoft Lens is riding into the sunset, if you even remember using it

Microsoft Lens is shutting down on iOS and Android with two deadlines. It leaves app stores February 9, 2026, and stops ...
ZDNet

10 free Windows apps that improved my productivity (and I'd easily pay money for)

If Windows is your preferred operating system, consider these open-source apps. There are numerous open-source apps available for almost any task. These are all free to install and use on Windows.
Ars Technica

Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...