One click let you escape Microsoft’s forced sign-in on Windows 11. Of course, Microsoft...
A month after we found that a tiny link in Windows 11 setup created a local account, Microsoft closed it without a word. Here's what the link does on a fresh 26H2 ISO now, how Microsoft blocked older bypasses, and what Microsoft VP Scott Hanselman said about the forced Microsoft account in March.
“We didn’t ask for more Microslop”: Microsoft promised to fix Windows 11, then dropped...
Microsoft showed a WinUI-based Windows Search, hybrid intelligence and secure agent containers, but barely talked about fixing Windows 11 itself, while Copilot got 36 mentions. Here is my word count of the livestream, what viewers said in the chat, and what Microsoft should do at its next Windows event.
Microsoft design boss on why Windows 11 can’t please all 1 billion users: “Everyone...
Windows 11 is getting a "UI rejuvenation" in the coming months, which means Microsoft will talk a lot about modernizing legacy features. However, Microsoft can't realistically make a billion people happy...
Microsoft is giving Windows 11’s legacy UI dark mode instead of killing it, now...
Windows 11 doesn't have a single design language, as even its own apps and OS features are scattered across different frameworks. Microsoft eventually plans to rebuild much of the legacy stuff...
30-year Microsoft veteran explains why you shouldn’t run two antivirus apps on Windows 11
Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen, who has been with the company for more than three decades, has advice for everybody with two or more antivirus solutions, and it's quite straightforward. Just don't...
Microsoft admits one bad driver can crash all of Windows, and Intel’s Windows 11...
Intel has confirmed itsGPU drivers are now fully compatible with Windows 11 26H2, and now it could get Microsoft's DQI upgrade.
First look: A major Windows 11 Search overhaul is coming, and it changes your...
At today's Windows event, Microsoft confirmed there's a new Windows Search coming to all PCs later this year, and it's built from scratch. It offers faster results, and thousands of quick...
“Nobody wants Copilot”: Microsoft pauses Copilot on Windows 11’s taskbar to “incorporate your feedback,”...
Microsoft spent almost a year turning the Windows 11 taskbar Search box into Ask Copilot, a floating entry point for Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents. Now it's disabled, weeks before the unified Copilot arrived, just as Windows Search got cleaner. Our testing shows its compact UI deserves to survive.
Windows 11’s taskbar is quietly borrowing an old trick from Windows XP: a list...
Microsoft is testing a "Show taskbar previews as" setting in Windows 11 that replaces hover thumbnails with a list of window titles, much like Windows XP did with grouped windows. A new Mobile devices tile in Quick Settings also lets you ring, silence or put a linked Android phone on Do Not Disturb.
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.
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