Microsoft reveals what’s actually new in Windows 11 26H2, and how to verify it
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.
Microsoft might bring Windows XP’s 3D Pinball to Windows 11, as Windows boss puts...
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.
Windows 11 26H2 quietly shipped with a major performance boost, and here’s why
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%.
Windows 11’s File Explorer is finally giving the squiggly ~ key a job, sending...
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...
Windows 7’s Aero Shake never disappeared from Windows 11, how to enable it right...
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.
“Rising cost of memory,” Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM
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.
Windows 11’s modernization broke a 26-year-old scroll trick that even Electron apps still have,...
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.
Microsoft confirms Windows 11 26H2 is crashing some games and apps, promises to fix...
It’s October 2026, and Microsoft is still finding bugs in Windows 11’s September updates, and it's affecting version 26H2.
Tested: Microsoft cloned Outlook Classic’s look into a New Outlook theme, instead of building...
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.
Windows 11’s WinUI just got basic features and less RAM hogging, after years of...
Microsoft is aware of the “framework gap” that pushes developers to the web or other frameworks, and it just made WinUI better.
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