Microsoft is betting on native WinUI over web app slop across Windows 11, and...
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.
“Used 5% of the time”: AI already made your RAM pricier, and now OpenAI’s...
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 killing its Electron app that can eat 4GB of RAM on Windows...
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.
Windows 11’s Paint has a no-click hacking bug, and even with auto-updates on, you...
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.
Windows 11 using most of your RAM? Microsoft says that’s a good thing, as...
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.
If you skipped Windows 11’s 2026 update over bugs, Microsoft has now fixed all...
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.
Microsoft’s own video show how badly Windows 11 struggled on 8GB RAM PCs, and...
Microsoft has declared that you can "do more with 8GB ," and this time, these are not just words, as the changes are already available. If you use Windows 11 26H2...
Microsoft spent two years telling you to buy 16GB of RAM, now it says...
Windows boss Pavan Davuluri says 8GB is enough for everyday work, backed by new memory optimizations. We trace Microsoft's shifting RAM advice from Copilot+ PCs and 32GB gaming guides to today's $429 Lenovo deal at Walmart, and why a $949.99 Surface now gets 8GB where it once got 16GB.
Microsoft admits Windows 11 was moving your open apps to slower storage on 8GB...
Microsoft has shared the test conditions behind every 8GB RAM claim, from a 900MB cut in memory growth to Widgets loading on demand. We put them next to our own 26H2 test, where an 8GB laptop's RAM use after a restart fell from 5GB to 3.3GB, and explain how to get build 26300.9818.
Windows 11’s big redesign now covers even its ancient defrag tool, as Microsoft finally...
March Rogers confirmed on X that Optimize Drives is "on our list" after a user asked for WinUI 3 or a move into Settings. We explain what the decades-old tool still does for HDDs and SSDs, and where it fits in Microsoft's ongoing WinUI 3 and Control Panel cleanup in Windows 11.
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