12+ hour, 11+ min ago   (722+ words) When an app freezes, it’s a habitual action for most Windows users to open Task Manager, find the app, select it, and click End task. But Windows 11 has a much quicker option that many users probably haven’t turned on. Right-clicking…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (900+ words) It’s a popular myth that 32-bit Windows is limited to 4GB of RAM because a 32-bit address can only represent 2^32 combinations, which works out to 4GB. This is one of those things that sound true until you look at the history of…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (672+ words) It’s been more than 6 years since Bill Gates officially severed all formal corporate ties with Microsoft, but his vision from 40 years ago is still at play with an even more ambitious agenda. “If you remember when Bill Gates was the…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (945+ words) At a time when the consensus is that corporations do not know what to do with AI, Microsoft actually has a plan that leverages AI to bring more native WinUI apps to the Microsoft Store. The company published a new…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1015+ words) Today’s biggest headline is Microsoft’s Project Zenith, which is all about powerful hardware running a version/experience of Windows 11 that is “ready-to-code,” or decluttered for a developer-friendly experience. But you don’t need to buy a new PC to try Windows…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (655+ words) When someone on X posts a picture of their new 5K Dell UltraSharp monitor, worth more than $2000, you would expect questions about the picture quality. But not for Dave Plummer, a former Microsoft engineer. A user saw that his Windows 11 taskbar…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (777+ words) Former Microsoft VP Joe Belfiore says the Windows 95 taskbar didn’t come from Steve Jobs’ NeXT Dock. Instead, he mentions a leftover “tray” design from Microsoft’s canceled Cairo project, and a fix for a Windows 3.1 problem where users lost track of minimized…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (809+ words) The August optional update brought some of the most requested changes Windows 11 has ever shipped, and the new Search, without Bing and Copilot results, is my favorite of the bunch. However, for most users, it will not turn on immediately....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (752+ words) Some posts have used the opportunity to sell their Windows tweaking service, while claiming Microsoft is hurting gaming performance by running AI without your permission. Funnily enough, the scaremongering screenshots that started the panic also show that there is nothing…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (662+ words) The Windows Subsystem for Linux keeps picking up momentum. GitHub Copilot‘s desktop app just added experimental WSL support, and while that marinates, Google quietly confirmed it is working on WSL for Antigravity, its agentic development platform, along with better…...