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.

Windows needed more than 1,000 security fixes in October, but Microsoft swears it’s not “less secure” and warns users against pausing updates.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Classic Outlook's search now falls back to your PC when the cloud is slow, and New Outlook still doesn't have that yet because it's a web app.

After a restart with no apps installed, Windows 11 used 2.4GB on a 4GB VM and 3.7GB on a 16GB VM. Microsoft’s documentation explains why Windows keeps more pages in RAM when memory is abundant, what Available and Cached mean, and when high RAM usage turns into a problem. Compressed memory read 0MB on all three.

Weeks after September's update broke File History, Remote Desktop and File Explorer, Microsoft's 25H2 status page tells users to move to 26H2. We break down every fix from KB5129195 to KB5127936, the USB audio bug Microsoft hasn't fixed, and why skipping 26H2 won't help.