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Windows 11 desktop running on iPhone Duo

Windows 11 can run on Apple’s foldable iPhone, and Google’s AI boss proved it...

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Google AI Studio boss has stepped in, upped the game, and shown off Windows 11 on Apple’s foldable iPhone using Gemini.
The new WinUI 3 Run dialog rolling out with Release Preview is coming to all PCs with the December 2026 update

Windows 11’s modern Run box arrives for everyone in December, and Microsoft found almost...

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Built in C# with WinUI 3 and compiled with .NET AOT, the modern Run opens in a 94ms median versus 103ms for the Win32 original. Microsoft dropped Browse after a 35-million-user sample showed 0.0038% clicked it, and you can still switch back to the classic Run from Settings > System > Advanced.
Microsoft Research veteran who co-founded AI Frontiers, has left Microsoft

“No path to real use”: a veteran Microsoft AI scientist quits, says research that...

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Langford spent over 14 years at Microsoft Research before his roughly 50-person AI Frontiers group was folded into Mustafa Suleyman's Microsoft AI in September. ByteDance has since tested a version of his Full Bandwidth Transformer at a larger scale, and there won't be AI Frontiers internships next year.
Microsoft 365 outage was not due to Copilot

Microsoft doesn’t want you to blame AI for the Microsoft 365 outage, insisting it...

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Microsoft insists AI didn’t break Microsoft 365, it just botched a network upgrade and left millions without Outlook for hours.
Microsoft asked for AI tips as a Microsoft 365 outage took down Outlook and Teams

“We’re tired of Microslop”: Microsoft asked for AI tips on the day a Microsoft...

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While Outlook, Teams and Exchange Online were falling over for businesses around the world on November 12, Microsoft Learn's account on X asked, "What's one AI habit beginners should build early on?" The post...
Microsoft 365 outage

Was the Microsoft 365 outage a hack? Microsoft says no, it was its own...

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Microsoft confirmed there have been no signs of a cyberattack affecting Microsoft 365, and it deeply "regrets" the error.
Microsoft 365 outage claim credit

Microsoft 365 outage: you may get money off your bill if you use it...

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Microsoft 365 services have been offline for hours at this point, and I am still running into the "Your request can't be completed right now" error when I open Outlook. At the same time,...
You can stop Windows from deliberately delaying startup apps

Your PC isn’t slow to start, Windows 11 is quietly holding your apps back...

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A Redditor cut his startup app wait from 2.5 minutes to 30 seconds with just two registry values. Microsoft's documentation and Raymond Chen explain why Windows holds back Startup group apps, why the results vary between PCs, and how to set StartupDelayInMSec and WaitForIdleState safely.
WhatsApp for Windows 11 using 562.2MB of RAM in Task Manager before logging in

Microsoft wants native apps on Windows 11, but it just praised WhatsApp’s web wrapper,...

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Pavan Davuluri credited Windows platform work for a double digit memory improvement in WhatsApp, without sharing a single figure. I retested the updated app on my PC. It idled under 500MB and launched a bit faster, but loading chats took 19 seconds and scrolling pushed it to about 1.5GB.

You may have missed emails on Outlook for days, as Microsoft confirms its spam...

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If you had a quiet week on Outlook, it's not because fewer people wanted to reach out, but because Microsoft may have blocked your emails.
Windows 11's Photos app is getting Adobe built in

Windows 11’s Photos app is getting Adobe built in, and I’m worried it’ll start...

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Microsoft just rebuilt Photos with a faster native Editor, and now Adobe will power Expand, object removal and Express templates inside it. Edge already pitches a 7-day Acrobat trial in its PDF reader, and Microsoft has its own MAI-Image models, so why does the Windows 11 Photos app need Adobe at all?
Claude is coming for Microsoft Office, but Excel isn't the real target

Excel isn’t dying because of Claude Sheets, but Microsoft is in trouble if your...

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Microsoft shares slipped 2.2% as Anthropic launched Claude Sheets, Whiteboards and Data. We looked at Office's history, from Lotus 1-2-3 to Google Sheets, Copilot's head start in Excel, and why Microsoft's real moat is SharePoint, Teams and Entra instead of the spreadsheet app everyone talks about.
Windows 11 KB5132061 issues

Microsoft investigates Windows 11 KB5132061 issues, 0x800f0993, 0x80070306, and 0x800f0989 installation errors

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Microsoft is investigating reports of Windows 11 KB5132061 installation errors, including 0x800f0993, 0x80070306, and 0x800f0989. In our tests, we observed that the November 2026 Patch Tuesday update reaches 99% before it fails, and you...
Memory Integrity toggle in Windows 11's Core isolation settings, which Microsoft is now enabling automatically on more eligible PCs

Windows 11 is now force-enabling Memory Integrity, a feature Microsoft admitted can hurt gaming...

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Microsoft's KB5132061 carries October's Memory Integrity expansion to Windows 11 25H2 and 26H2, targeting upgraded PCs that missed clean-install defaults. We dug into how HVCI guards the kernel, why Microsoft's 2022 gaming guide is gone, and what benchmarks and anti-cheat issues mean for gamers.
Windows 11 November Security Update is out for all eligible PCs

I tested Windows 11 November 2026 update, here’s what’s new, improved, and fixed

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Windows 11's November 2026 Patch Tuesday update fixes the slow, cluttered right-click menu and lets you customize it. Edge opens up to 33% faster, taskbar previews glide between apps, Xbox mode gets an Exit to Desktop button, and 26H2 PCs get Microsoft's 8GB RAM gains. Here's what we found in our tests.