Category: Windows Latest

Microsoft proves Windows 11’s modern UI can beat legacy Win32, if it works hard enough

We all know Microsoft is trying to modernize Windows for the billionth time, and by modernization I mean moving legacy[...]

Why Windows stopped including fun games like Minesweeper, Solitaire, and Pinball

If you installed Windows in the 1990s or 2000s, you did not need Steam, the Microsoft Store, or even an[...]

Windows 11 is dropping its worst OneDrive dark pattern: after years of complaints, Microsoft will let you fully opt out

Microsoft had a change of heart, and it appears to be sending a full-screen alert to people who were pushed[...]

Windows 11 is accused of using AI to slow your PC, but it’s not what you think

A screenshot of Windows 11’s Settings > Privacy & security > Text and image generation page has gone viral, racking[...]

Windows 11 is warning “Virus protection is off,” Microsoft confirms it’s false, but verify if Defender is actually enabled

If Windows 11 is sending alerts that you need to turn on virus protection and your PC is unprotected, don’t[...]

I tested Windows 11 26H2, so you don’t have to. Here’s everything I found.

Windows 11, version 26H2 has reached the Release Preview Channel, which is the last stop before general availability. It is[...]

“We’re aware,” Microsoft on Windows 11 KB5120998 breaking the mouse cursor

On Thursday, Microsoft rolled out Windows 11’s biggest update of the year with a resizable Start menu, a movable Taskbar,[...]

In a rare move, Google is bringing native Windows 11 and WSL support to its new AI tools

The Windows Subsystem for Linux keeps picking up momentum. GitHub Copilot‘s desktop app just added experimental WSL support, and while[...]

Windows 11’s native app era is coming back after years of web app slop, and Microsoft is finally building it in public

When Microsoft promised it was going to focus on WinUI as the “native framework” for Windows 11 and make its[...]

Microsoft dumps its best file-sharing tool for Windows-Android-iOS, called Edge Drop

Microsoft only seems to care about getting Copilot/AI right in the Edge browser, and it’s slowly removing everything that made[...]