“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.
Windows 11’s famous Windows key may get a new job, but Microsoft can’t ignore...
If you press the Windows key on your keyboard, it opens the Start menu, but what if it could do more? Microsoft has some ideas.
Microsoft says it’s optimizing Windows 11 for 8GB PCs, so I tested 26H2 on...
Microsoft promised to cut Windows 11's memory footprint on 8GB PCs, but early 26H2 savings showed up mostly on 16GB to 48GB machines. Here's what changed on an 8GB laptop full of work apps, a clean VM, and what Microsoft's 2GB and 200MB claims mean.
Microsoft is now scaling back Copilot in Windows 11 amid Microslop backlash, pulling 8...
Microsoft says it's retiring "Copilot actions" from the File Explorer context menu, which it recently began rolling out.
Windows 10 users were right: Windows 11 still can’t drag the taskbar, so Microsoft...
Windows Latest enabled a hidden taskbar menu in Insider Build 26340.9750 that has Left, Top, Right and Bottom buttons. It worked well with an app and Start open on our VM, and the menu first appeared in a deleted video a Microsoft engineer shared in April, when it was only a debug tool.
Why Windows 11 keeps 64-bit files in System32 and 32-bit files in SysWOW64, according...
A 32-bit app that asks for System32 on Windows 11 ends up in SysWOW64 without knowing it. I tested the WOW64 redirector on a 26H2 PC, went through Raymond Chen's take on the backward names, and found the hidden Sysnative alias plus six folders Windows doesn't redirect.
Even designers are now using AI to code Windows 11, and Microsoft says “we’re...
Lockergnome founder Chris Pirillo told Microsoft it has the AI tokens to finally unify Windows design. Windows design director Diego Baca agreed on AI, pushed back on the rest, and explained why changing an OS used by over a billion people takes time. Here’s what’s being rebuilt and what’s still stuck.
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