iOS 26 can run on an Android phone, and a developer proved it on...
SmuOS shared exclusive photos of iOS 26.5.2 running natively on Microsoft's abandoned Surface Duo 2, with Settings and the Phone app spanning both screens. He explains how Apple's open-source XNU kernel, UniXNU and a Metal translation layer made it possible, and what's coming next.
Microsoft confirms Windows 11 26H2 is now available for everyone, and it installs in...
Microsoft has confirmed version 26H2 is now available for everyone running versions 25H2 and 24H2, and next milestone is forced installation.
Tested: Windows 11’s new Outlook now beats Outlook Classic at one thing (unified inbox),...
Microsoft is rolling out All Accounts to the new Outlook for Windows, a unified inbox that combines Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Archive and Junk from every account while keeping mailboxes separate. I tried it on a Windows 365 Cloud PC, but cross-account search and shared mailbox support are still missing.
Everyone says disabling SysMain speeds up Windows 11, so I benchmarked it on two...
SysMain, formerly Superfetch, preloads your frequently used apps into spare RAM and prepares startup data for Fast Startup. I timed restarts, Word and Photoshop launches and RAM use on a 32GB PC and an 8GB laptop with it on and off, and explain when disabling it makes sense.
Windows 11’s new “better performance” toggle shows up, but your current PC will never...
Windows 11's recent preview builds include a new toggle called "Advanced Performance Extensions," aka "APX," and on supported hardware.
Deleting Prefetch to speed up Windows actually made PCs slower, and a Microsoft developer...
Deleting C:\Windows\Prefetch was a classic Windows XP speed-up trick, but Microsoft's Ryan Myers said it only dented performance while Windows rebuilt the files. Windows 11 still keeps up to 1,024 of them, so I timed Word, Photoshop and Notepad before and after clearing the folder.
Microsoft confirms Teams will let third-party tools scan your meetings for deepfakes from November
Certified third-party bots will scan Teams meeting audio and video for deepfakes and flag participants to everyone in the call. Microsoft's Graph docs show confidence scores and admin permissions, but providers, licensing and data handling are still unknown, and it differs from Report a concern.
Windows 11’s native WinUI isn’t being killed this time, Microsoft promises, but developers have...
Microsoft has clarified that it isn't killing WinUI and XAML after it began testing an experimental framework called Microsoft.UI.Reactor.
I’m an Outlook Classic holdout, so I used the new Outlook for 3 days...
Microsoft wants Outlook Classic users on the new Outlook, and Enterprise users get it by default from March 2027. After three days, offline mail and PST archives work with caveats, COM add-ins and VBA don't, notifications still lag, and Classic stays supported until at least 2029.
Windows 11’s Xbox mode needed a keyboard just to get back to the desktop,...
Microsoft is testing a refreshed Gaming Task View for Xbox mode on Windows 11 with Exit to Desktop and Power buttons, so you can shut down or restart using a controller. A new Battery Status widget also shows your PC and accessory charge on the Widgets board and lock screen. I tested both features.
Microsoft is killing Windows 11’s web slop, and now even the taskbar’s speed test...
Windows 11's speed test shortcut used to open Bing in your browser. In Insider build 26340.9767, Microsoft moved the test into Quick Settings with a new Speed test tile, live progress and results for download, upload and ping, all powered by Speedtest. I tested it, and it finally feels like Windows.
“Not even Microsoft uses Windows 11”: Its new Windows wallpapers were made on a...
Rafael Rivera found that Microsoft's in-house design team made the 12th anniversary Windows Insider wallpapers in Photoshop for Mac. The copies I downloaded no longer show it, Microsoft designers have picked Apple hardware for years, and Insiders deserved a gift made on a Windows PC instead.
Should you turn off the page file on a 32GB PC? Here’s what Microsoft...
Turning off the page file on a 32GB PC drops Windows' commit limit to below 32GB and stops it from saving crash dumps. Raymond Chen and Mark Russinovich explain why, game studios tell players to leave it on, and Microsoft's own sizing rules show what System managed does on your PC.
Microsoft is tired of web app slop on Windows 11, and now it’s making...
Microsoft is fighting Windows 11’s web app slop by making native WinUI apps much easier to build, as changes begin rolling out.
Microsoft is quietly testing another Recall for Windows 11, but this one doesn’t record...
Microsoft is quietly testing Project Pantheon, a Windows 11 app also called Context Vault that saves only what you pick as memories, sorts them into collections and lets AI answer questions about them. It works with the Share menu, Click to Do and even with Claude through MCP. I used it all summer.
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