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Microsoft has quietly set a firm deadline for one of its long‑running, quietly useful apps: the Sway Windows desktop app (Win32) will be retired on June 1, 2026, and users will be funneled to the web client at sway.cloud.microsoft for all future use. Background Sway arrived as Microsoft’s...

The market for desktop PCs still delivers exceptional value for multitasking and long-term productivity, and a recent Observer Voice roundup (carried in the same roundup family as a Hindustan Times list) crystallizes that argument: the ten desktops highlighted favor SSD-first responsiveness...

Microsoft’s plan to split Teams’ calling stack into a separate child process is finally rolling out as an operational change that could blunt the worst of the desktop client’s sluggish call start times and meeting-time resource spikes — but it’s a pragmatic containment strategy, not a cure for...

The best desktop PCs of 2025 show a clear evolution: manufacturers are balancing raw performance with compact design, tighter integration for AI workloads, and real-world value that reflects component availability more than MSRP alone. PCMag UK’s curated list of winners frames that...

Windows 11 is quietly preparing to add system-level haptic feedback — a feature dubbed “haptic signals” that Microsoft has tucked into recent Dev/Beta preview builds — promising subtle vibrations when you snap windows, align objects, or perform other UI actions, but the capability remains hidden...

Microsoft’s Bing Wallpaper app has quietly grown from a simple “daily background” utility into a small, clickable portal that can — by default — open a Bing search in your browser when you click the desktop, and it wires extra visual-search and news hotspots into the wallpaper experience that...

Hi everyone, I wanted to share a simple but powerful workaround I discovered for a frustrating issue in Windows 11. 🔧 The Problem: When using multiple monitors, pasting a file to the desktop always places it on the primary monitor, regardless of which screen you're working on. This behavior...

Windows 11 Snap Layouts, Snap Groups & Desktops for Faster Multitasking Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 15 minutes Windows 11 brings a polished set of multitasking features that help you stay organized and productive: Snap Layouts to quickly arrange windows, Snap Groups to remember...

In 2025 the long-running duel between Windows and Linux looks less like a single “winner takes all” contest and more like a partitioned battlefield: Windows still rules the desktop, powering the majority of personal and enterprise PCs, while Linux has entrenched itself across servers, clouds...

Google has quietly pushed a Spotlight‑style search experience onto the Windows desktop: an experimental, keyboard‑first Google Search app that summons a floating search bar with Alt + Space and can return results from local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web — and it bundles Google...

Google’s experimental Windows app aims to remove the friction of switching windows to look something up — a floating, Spotlight‑like search bar you summon with Alt + Space that can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web, and that folds in Google Lens and the company’s AI...

Google has quietly brought a Spotlight‑style search overlay to Windows, launching an experimental Google app that lets you summon a floating search bar with Alt + Space to query the web, local files, installed apps and Google Drive — and it combines that with built‑in Google Lens and Google’s...

The moment you switch a daily driver from Windows to Ubuntu, certain expectations—system-level conveniences you didn’t notice until they vanished—quickly become obvious. A recent first‑person piece catalogued four Windows conveniences the author missed after moving to Ubuntu: a one‑click system...

Microsoft’s Computex message — that Windows 10 had reached “3 hundred million” active devices — was an attention-grabbing milestone, but a closer look at contemporaneous market-share data shows a more complicated reality: Windows 10’s raw install base was growing fast, yet Windows 7 remained the...

Microsoft’s terse advisory that “concurrent execution using a shared resource with improper synchronization (‘race condition’) in Windows Hyper‑V allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally” is the single-line summary administrators need to treat as urgent: this is a Hyper‑V race...

Microsoft’s OneDrive Backup (Known Folder Move) can silently redirect your Desktop, Documents, and Pictures into the cloud during Windows 11 setup — and while that protects files from device loss and ransomware, it also changes where your files live and how you should manage backups; this...

Microsoft’s OneDrive Backup can be switched on for you during Windows 11 setup — but your files aren’t stolen; they’ve simply been moved into OneDrive and synced. If you prefer your Documents, Pictures, and Desktop to live locally, the change is reversible: stop folder backup in OneDrive, then...

Tiling window managers aren’t a Linux-only productivity secret anymore — Windows has a healthy, maturing ecosystem of tilers that can radically change how you work, and four projects stand out right now for stability, polish, or sheer ambition. Overview Tiling window managers automatically...

If you’ve ever set up a new Windows PC or clicked through a Windows update without scrutinizing every prompt, you may have opened File Explorer one day and discovered that your Documents, Desktop or Pictures folders now live inside a OneDrive folder — and that many of those files are quietly...

StatCounter’s August 2025 snapshot produced a deceptively simple headline — Windows 11 slipped below 50% of desktop Windows installations while Windows 10 regained ground — but the data behind that headline, and what it means for users and IT teams as Windows 10 support ends in October, require...