Microsoft's 26H2 feature list is mostly made of things your PC got through monthly updates. We explain what the 174KB enablement package switches on, which defaults change on work PCs, why my three-year-old 16GB laptop now uses noticeably less RAM, and how to confirm build 26300 in Settings or with winver.

3D Pinball left Windows after XP because a 64-bit bug made the ball pass through objects like a ghost, and nobody could decode the old code. Now Pavan Davuluri has added it to Microsoft's list of ideas, with a Windows and Surface event on October 7 and a sound refresh already hinted.

The European Commission hosts Element Pro on its own servers as a sovereign fallback if Teams goes down, and staff have panned it. Their verdict says more about how indispensable Teams has become than how good it is, since Microsoft still hasn't given Teams a native WinUI client.

A viral post said life is too short to support Windows users. Fowler called it clickbait, and Stack Overflow puts Windows at 49.5% of professional developers. But a 10,000-vote poll gave Windows just 12%, which explains Microsoft's big push on WSL and WinUI.

26H2 is an enablement package, but it rolls up months of performance work, including Low Latency Profile for app launches. On our 16GB laptop, RAM after a restart dropped to 7GB, and WhatsApp, Teams, Outlook and 4K YouTube together stayed under 90%.

There's a new Windows 11 update that will soon give the squiggly ~ key a job, and that is to quickly open folders like your user profile, Documents, Downloads, and, sometimes very importantly, the...

Microsoft renamed Windows 7's Aero Shake and turned it off by default, but it still lets you keep one window open while everything else minimizes. Here's how to turn it on, how it differs from Win + D and Show desktop, and why Windows 7 got it right.

In Microsoft's Inside Windows podcast, Davuluri and Marcus Ash explained how Windows 11 will use less RAM, and Microsoft later made 8GB PC optimization official. Here's why Windows 11 uses so much RAM, how AI drove up memory prices, and what Microsoft is fixing.

Electron, Win32 and WPF all honour the Shift+click scrollbar shortcut, but WinUI has neither it nor the Scroll Here menu, even in Windows 11's Notepad. A GitHub bug is open, as Microsoft keeps patching WinUI's missing basics in 2026. Here is what else WinUI got this year.

It’s October 2026, and Microsoft is still finding bugs in Windows 11’s September updates, and it's affecting version 26H2.

Pavan Davuluri and Marcus Ash are teasing what's next for builders and creators, while NVIDIA confirmed Microsoft Execution Containers, unified memory work and Prism tuning for RTX Spark. Here is what to expect, including Surface Laptop Ultra pricing and the 18-core RTX Spark.

Microsoft has just cloned Outlook Classic's look and turned it into a theme for New Outlook, in the hope that holdouts will finally switch.

The hijacked account followed a Clippy account, promised to bring Clippy back at 500,000 likes, and posted a strange apology about a $Clippy token tied to $MSFT. It happened shortly after Microsoft took down the AI-powered EvilTokens cybercrime service.

We looked inside Copilot build 154.0.4258.37 and found a 520MB Edge build that even carries Edge Game Assist, a copilotapp_proxy.exe identical to Edge's, no WebView2 calls, and a .NET 10 WinUI host for voice and vision. The app used 760.6MB of RAM while idle on our PC.

Microsoft is aware of the “framework gap” that pushes developers to the web or other frameworks, and it just made WinUI better.