According to a report from 3DMark creator UL Benchmarks, Microsoft's VBS feature can incur a noticeable performance hit on Windows 11 PCs. Testing shows varying results between Beta and Dev builds.

Microsoft's Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) was introduced with Windows 10. This is a security enhancing setting that by default is turned off, but some enterprise admins might apply it to the ...

Microsoft resurrected a controversial topic in the PC gaming community recently: Windows 11’s security features. Days after Windows 11 launched, there was an outcry among PC gamers due to a security ...

Virtualization-based Security, as the name suggests, is a security system that uses the Windows hypervisor (Hyper-V) to virtualize sensitive portions of the Windows operating system against exploits ...

Why it matters: With Windows 11, Microsoft wants all consumer PCs to have the same enterprise-grade security as corporate machines. If you've just bought a machine or did a fresh install of the new ...