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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Reid Hoffman's Possible podcast, where he described a future with 20 million AI agents working alongside Microsoft's employees

Microsoft’s CEO imagines 20 million AI agents doing the work, as the company offers...

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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.
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Windows 11 third-party apps updates

For 20 years, Windows apps like Java have nagged you with their own update...

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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...
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Windows 11 finally lets you turn off the Sticky Keys popup from the popup itself,

Microsoft took 31 years to let you kill Windows 11’s Sticky Keys popup, which...

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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.
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Windows 11's legacy Registry Editor next to Microsoft's native WinUI 3 Registry Editor sample

Microsoft built a native WinUI Registry Editor that makes Windows 11’s regedit look like...

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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.
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Microsoft is begging you to ditch Outlook Classic, and now it’s handing out Rewards...

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Microsoft desperately wants you to ditch Outlook Classic, so now it’s handing out Rewards points to try new Outlook.
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Microsoft says a new 8GB Windows 11 laptop can match a 16GB PC from 2021

8GB of RAM is the new 16GB on Windows 11, says Microsoft, in an...

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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.
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Your Outlook.com inbox may be silently missing emails since Nov 5, and even senders...

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Some Outlook.com users aren't receiving emails because messages sent to them are bouncing, with senders being told to verify their settings.
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Windows 11 finally lets you enter your PIN while Windows Hello is checking your face

Windows 11 won’t make you wait for face unlock to fail before typing your...

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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.
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Windows 11 Bloom wallpaper is reportedly being replaced as Microsoft prepares the Windows 11 27H2 update for 2027

Windows 11 users won’t get Windows 12 in 2027, just a new wallpaper instead,...

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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.
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Discord’s current Electron client and its new Rust client launching side by side on two Lenovo ThinkPads running Windows 11

Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why: no “Starting”...

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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.
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Windows 11 is not less secure

Microsoft swears Windows 11 isn’t “less secure,” even as 1,100+ security fixes landed last...

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Windows needed more than 1,000 security fixes in October, but Microsoft swears it’s not “less secure” and warns users against pausing updates.
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PowerToys is moving almost all tools to Microsoft’s native WinUI 3 framework on Windows 11

Microsoft is betting on native WinUI over web app slop across Windows 11, and...

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Six PowerToys tools moved from WPF to WinUI 3 in 2026, and Microsoft’s GitHub tracker says finishing the job could cut up to 85MB from the install. FancyZones and Workspaces are next, PowerToys Run is staying on WPF, and Microsoft wants third-party developers to follow with native WinUI apps.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella have opposing views on whether AI should run in data centers or on your PC

“Used 5% of the time”: AI already made your RAM pricier, and now OpenAI’s...

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Altman called idle PC RAM “quite terrible” on the Cheeky Pint podcast, then said he wants you to have “so much ram.” Microsoft’s hybrid intelligence needs PCs with up to 128GB of unified memory to run models like MAI-Code-1.1-Flash locally, just as AI data centers push DRAM prices higher.
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Discord for Windows 11 RAM usage

Discord is killing its Electron app that can eat 4GB of RAM on Windows...

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Discord is finally dumping Electron. CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy confirmed the desktop client is being rewritten from scratch using Rust and GPUI. Early Windows 11 tests show RAM usage dropping to just 290MB, completely eliminating Chromium baggage.
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Microsoft Paint for Windows

Windows 11’s Paint has a no-click hacking bug, and even with auto-updates on, you...

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Microsoft Paint apparently has a security flaw, and while there's a patch, nobody is actually seeing it when they look for one in the Store.
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