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.

Windows 11 KB5132061 is now rolling out with a new setting that lets you modify the right-click menu and provides faster performance for apps like Edge and Firefox. Like all updates, the November 2026...

A Mozilla patch, still off by default, lets Windows 11 send links and Start menu launches to a running Firefox without spawning another firefox.exe. Edge 150 already does this, and the November Patch Tuesday update brings it to every eligible PC, with Chromium browsers possibly next.

Windows 11 still loses your Android phone after sleep, but Microsoft says it’s working on reliability, and other fixes.

Five years after launch, Windows 11 still ships Phone Dialer, MMC consoles and Control Panel applets. We list 20+ legacy tools with the command to open each, explain which ones Microsoft is already rebuilding in WinUI, and set the record straight on the WinUI Registry Editor sample.

On Reid Hoffman's podcast, Nadella said he already runs 100 agents at once and that Agent 365 must keep them auditable. Microsoft expects under 5% of 60,000 eligible staff to take its exit offer, and a former Entra PM argues the company needs fewer people leaning into agentic work.

After all the outrage over 'Microslop,' Microsoft said it's listening to your feedback and promised to make Windows 11 a "calm" operating system. Microsoft wasn't just referring to ads or upsells on Windows, but...

We tested the new "Never turn on Sticky Keys with this shortcut" checkbox in Build 26340.9882. The original author of the dialog says he wrote it in 1995 because kids kept triggering Sticky Keys in Space Cadet Pinball, and Marcus Ash says Microsoft is working on modernizing legacy Win32 dialogs.

Windows Latest found a native WinUI 3 Registry Editor in Microsoft's open-source Reactor repository, and I compiled it and ran it on Windows 11. It reads the real Registry with Mica and modern menus, but Permissions, Load Hive and .reg files are still unfinished in Microsoft's developer sample.

Microsoft desperately wants you to ditch Outlook Classic, so now it’s handing out Rewards points to try new Outlook.

Windows 11 launched in 2021, and Microsoft now says today's 8GB laptops can keep up with 16GB PCs from that era. Part of it is newer chips, but Microsoft has also cut Windows 11's RAM use with better memory compression, lighter Widgets, Edge and Teams, and WinUI work that's still underway.

Some Outlook.com users aren't receiving emails because messages sent to them are bouncing, with senders being told to verify their settings.

Windows Hello no longer forces you to wait for face recognition or dig into Sign-in options to use your PIN. We installed the Experimental build to compare the old and new lock screens, and also looked at the low-light brightness toggle and the IR camera problem many laptops still have.

Windows 11 has changed a lot since Microsoft's March quality pledge, from a movable taskbar to faster 8GB PCs. A bigger 27H2 release that could merge 26H1 and 26H2 makes more sense than Windows 12 right now, and the new wallpapers replacing Bloom are reportedly coming in early January.

Discord employees confirmed the side-by-side boot video shows two cold starts and that the new client auto-updates in the background. GPUI, not Tauri, draws its interface, mobile drops React Native, the web app moves to WebAssembly, and private testing is coming soon with Linux support confirmed.