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Microsoft is testing Windows 11 File Explorer performance improvements in June 2026 that target bulk file deletion, launch speed, flicker, navigation, context menus, and everyday file operations, with early reporting pointing to at least a 30 percent gain for deleting large groups of files. The...

Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday for Windows 11 is scheduled for June 9, bringing the usual security fixes alongside new user-facing features such as low-latency performance boosts, Shared Audio, richer NPU monitoring, setup-time user-folder naming, and Secure Boot certificate updates. The...

Paul Thurrott has renamed and reworked his long-running Windows 11 Field Guide as the Windows 11 Field Guide 2026 edition, a June 2026 update that reframes the book around today’s supported Windows 11 releases: 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1. The change is more than a cover-page refresh. It is a small but...

Computex 2026 is unfolding in Taipei from June 2 through June 6, with Nvidia, Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, and the PC industry’s usual hardware heavyweights using the show to pitch the next personal-computing cycle around local AI, new silicon, and Windows machines built for agentic...

Microsoft plans to add Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery to Windows Update, with partner testing running from May through August 2026 and broader automated support targeted for September 2026, allowing Windows 11 systems to roll back faulty drivers without user or hardware-vendor intervention...

Microsoft’s Windows 365 Cloud PC is a subscription Windows 11 desktop hosted in Microsoft’s cloud, accessible from browsers and Microsoft’s Windows app on PCs, Macs, iPads, Android devices, and phones, with current Business pricing starting around the low tens of dollars per user per month. Ed...

Microsoft is replacing the original 2011 Secure Boot certificate chain across Windows PCs and servers before certificates begin expiring in June 2026 and continue expiring into October, affecting supported Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server systems that still trust those aging boot...

Microsoft is preparing a Windows Update driver-targeting change for Windows 11 that should reduce automatic GPU driver downgrades, with rollout beginning around April 2026 for some systems and broader availability expected by the fourth quarter of 2026. The fix matters because the bug sits at...

Microsoft is preparing Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery for Windows Update, a Windows 11 recovery mechanism that will let Microsoft remotely roll back faulty drivers delivered through Windows Update beginning with validation work in 2026, according to recent reporting and Microsoft documentation...

Microsoft announced Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery on May 12, 2026, a Windows Update recovery mechanism that lets Microsoft roll back problematic drivers from the cloud to a known-good version, with validation running through August and automatic support planned for September 2026. The pitch is...

Microsoft announced Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery for Windows Update on May 13, 2026, giving its driver shiproom a cloud-controlled way to roll back faulty drivers on affected PCs without waiting for users or hardware vendors to manually intervene. The feature is narrow, technical, and easy to...

Microsoft’s 2026 support calendar ends security and servicing lifelines for Windows 11 version 24H2 Home and Pro on October 13, Windows 11 version 23H2 Enterprise and Education on November 10, and Office LTSC 2021 on October 13, alongside dozens of older enterprise products. That is the plain...

Microsoft is changing Windows Update in 2026 to make restarts more predictable, combining more update types into a monthly reboot rhythm while adding clearer pause, shutdown, restart, and setup controls for Windows 11 users and managed fleets. The move is not a revolution in patching so much as...

Microsoft is making one of the most consequential changes to Windows Update in years, and it is doing so for a very simple reason: users are tired of feeling ambushed by their PCs. The company is now rolling out a broader set of update controls in Windows 11, including the ability to skip...

Microsoft’s Secure Boot certificate deadline is no longer a distant infrastructure footnote. The company has confirmed that the 2011-era Secure Boot certificates used across Windows devices begin expiring in June 2026, and it is warning that systems which fail to receive the newer 2023...

Windows 11 Pro arrives in the office not as a visual refresh but as a deliberately engineered toolkit for modern professional workflows — one that bundles beefed-up security, centralized management, and productivity features aimed at reducing friction across hybrid teams and developer...

Microsoft’s management playbook for Arm-based PCs may be shifting — a recent report says Windows Admin Center (WAC) is now being made available on Arm‑based Copilot+ PCs, a move that would close a longstanding gap between Windows on Arm hardware and the enterprise management ecosystem. If...

Microsoft’s move to make no-restart “hotpatch” updates the default behavior for newly created Windows quality update policies landed as a clear operational change for managed environments — but the reporting around a subsequent “delay” highlights how fast-moving messaging, rollout caveats, and...

Microsoft’s U‑turn on Windows 10 support is official: the company has published the first Extended Security Update (ESU) patch for post‑mainstream Windows 10, delivering a security‑only rollup that fixes a specific enrollment and messaging problem while making plain that feature development for...

For more than a decade, a tiny but persistent mismatch between label and behavior in Windows finally has a clear fix: the “Update and shutdown” command will now, in the scenarios Microsoft addressed, actually power the PC off instead of leaving it running or returning to the desktop after...