Wharariki Beach in New Zealand, the real-life location behind Windows 10's iconic lock screen photo, is drawing travelers after a viral Instagram reel racked up 142 million views. Photojournalist Steve McCurry shot the image for Windows 10's 2015 launch, and Microsoft itself commented on the reel.

No, Linux desktop market share has not crossed 10% in North America, and Windows is not suddenly losing millions of users. 2026 is not the year of Linux, for those who care. If anything,...

Microsoft Teams will stop you from hitting Leave and Screen Share by accident, redesign rolling out on Windows and macOS.

Microsoft is quietly testing a new WinUI 3-based Print Management app in Windows 11 Insider builds, moving printer administration away from the legacy MMC console. It's part of a wider push that already includes the File Explorer Properties dialog, Run, and Autoplay getting the same treatment.

PhoneBuff's robot-controlled testing found Word opening a 500-page document twice as fast on MacBooks as on the Surface Laptop and Dell XPS 13. But Snapdragon X2 Plus and Intel's Panther Lake beat Apple silicon on battery life during real productivity work, cycling between Word and Excel.

After years of complaints, Microsoft is making Windows 11 Search actually useful, it'll auto-index folders you actually use.

Onetastic adds a killer calendar view to OneNote, and it's built by a Microsoft engineer as a side project.

Windows Latest tested the new Photos app in the Experimental channel and found a cleaner toolbar, a faster context menu, and less promotional clutter overall. But the same update quietly introduces Photos (Preview), a WebView2 gallery app that looks a lot like the auto-installing OneDrive Photos app.

Pavan Davuluri confirms Microsoft is reducing Windows 11's memory footprint for PCs with 8GB RAM and above, part of the same quality push Satya Nadella flagged on Microsoft's earnings call. The work targets the WebView2 bloat that's made Windows 11 a memory hog for years, rolling out through 2026

Microsoft's own earnings call confirms what Windows Latest has argued for months: Windows 11 growth came from Windows 10's retirement, not AI PC demand. HP still credits AI, but Dell already reversed its AI PC bet months ago. Here's what both companies said, and what Microsoft's numbers actually show.

Microsoft faces a new CMA investigation over whether it properly disclosed Copilot-linked price increases on Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plans before auto-renewing customers onto costlier tiers. It's the third country investigating the same rollout, after Australia's ACCC and Italy's AGCM.

During Microsoft's FY2026 Q4 earnings call, Nadella singled out Windows quality and fundamentals even as the Windows-containing segment declined. Windows 11 already picked up major fixes in 2026, from RAM reductions to a faster File Explorer, with more investment promised for the rest of the year.

Microsoft is finally updating File Explorer in Windows 11 to display file sizes in appropriate units (KB, MB, or GB) in the Details view.

March Rogers, Microsoft's Partner Director of Design, confirms the Windows 11 Properties dialog is a real WinUI rebuild, not a reskinned Win32 dialog. Microsoft plans to move more legacy UI to WinUI next, but the framework still has RAM and performance issues to fix first.

Windows Latest has exclusive images of the Lenovo Yoga 9n 2-in-1, the world's first NVIDIA RTX Spark convertible. The photos also reveal a new black Yoga Pro 9n colorway, confirming Lenovo is targeting the premium Windows on Arm market with both a clamshell and a flexible convertible design.