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Journalists at PCMag — as relayed in an Inbox.lv news roundup — have distilled a short, blunt list of what they see as the most urgent user complaints about Windows 11, and the result is a clear signal to Microsoft: make AI features optional and transparent, stop eroding user choice, and fix the...

This week’s Windows Store roundup brings a mix of polished mobile ports, useful utilities, and a couple of pleasant surprises — from an instructional yoga app that promises a complete practice library to a high‑octane hydrojet racer that finally feels at home on PCs. Highlights include the...

WhatsApp’s Windows client has quietly been recast as a Chromium-based web wrapper and the fallout is now visible in everyday use: a substantially higher memory footprint, weaker Windows integration, and a small but growing movement of users who are sideloading older native builds to get the lean...

WhatsApp’s Windows client has quietly been rewritten as a wrapped web app, forcing many desktop users out of the native experience and into a WebView2/Chromium-backed “web shell” that is easier for Meta to maintain — but measurably heavier on system resources and weaker on native Windows...

WhatsApp is warning an expanding group of Windows 11 users that they will be forcibly logged out of the desktop app to complete an update that replaces the native Windows client with a Chromium-based WebView2 wrapper — a migration that early hands‑on tests show produces materially higher RAM...

Microsoft’s experiment to “preload” File Explorer in Windows 11 is an unassuming tweak with outsized consequences: it can shave fractions of a second off the app’s cold start while nearly doubling Explorer’s idle memory footprint in some tests, and those trade‑offs are now shaping how...

Microsoft has quietly begun testing two deliberate, low‑risk experiments that aim to make File Explorer feel faster and less cluttered: an optional background preloading mechanism that warms parts of Explorer before you open it, and a reworked right‑click context menu that groups seldom‑used...

Astera Labs’ announcement that its Leo CXL Smart Memory Controllers are enabling evaluation of Compute Express Link (CXL) memory expansion on Microsoft Azure M‑series virtual machines marks a practical milestone in the industry push to break the long‑standing memory wall — the gap between CPU...

Meta’s latest WhatsApp update has quietly swapped the native Windows client for a WebView2 wrapper that simply loads the web interface — and early tests show a dramatic hit to memory use, responsiveness, and tight Windows 11 integration. Background WhatsApp’s Windows client has come full circle...

WhatsApp’s freshly redesigned desktop client has quietly arrived in Pakistan — a milestone that signals the end of the older native Windows app and the beginning of a WebView2-wrapped, web-first experience that brings feature parity with the web and mobile clients but also a heavier resource...

Meta has quietly replaced WhatsApp’s native Windows 11 client with a WebView2-wrapped version that essentially hosts web.whatsapp.com inside a Chromium-based runtime, a change rolling out through the Microsoft Store that many users say reduces Windows integration, increases RAM use, and makes...

Meta has quietly moved WhatsApp’s Windows client away from a native WinUI/UWP implementation and repackaged it as a WebView2-wrapped instance of WhatsApp Web, a change that is rolling out via the Microsoft Store and already showing measurable differences in memory use, system integration, and...

Microsoft Edge’s latest beta builds are shipping a preview of AI-powered live audio translation for videos on Windows 11 — a feature that can generate translated subtitles or even dub spoken audio in real time — but it comes with a notable hardware bar: Microsoft says your device must have at...

Windows 11’s taskbar clock just got a serious upgrade — without Microsoft — thanks to a Windhawk mod that lets you display custom date/time formats alongside system telemetry (CPU, RAM, network), weather, news headlines, extra timezones and flexible styling right inside the clock area...

In the ever-evolving landscape of web browsers, Microsoft Edge has emerged as a formidable contender, challenging the long-standing dominance of Google Chrome. Recent developments have highlighted Edge's advancements in performance, resource efficiency, and integration capabilities, particularly...

Google’s Chrome browser has long commanded a dominant market position, but with popularity comes heightened scrutiny—and in 2025, the debate around its performance is as lively as ever. With Google touting the latest version of Chrome as its fastest to date, the conversation has shifted...

It starts innocently enough: you sit down at your Windows 11 PC, open up a few browser tabs, perhaps launch a productivity app or two, and suddenly, your once-speedy computer sounds like it’s prepping for lift-off. Fans whirl, windows stall, that spinning wheel taunts you. A quick peek at the...

Microsoft Edge has earned a reputation as an efficient, Chromium-based browser that comes pre-installed on Windows 11. Yet, many users have reported instances of high memory usage that seem to hog vital system resources and rob other applications of their fair share. If you’ve noticed Microsoft...

Be Cautious with the New Windows 11 Co-pilot: Is Your RAM at Risk? Microsoft’s latest update for Windows 11 introduces an enhanced Co-pilot that promises to elevate user productivity with advanced AI features. But before you get too excited, there’s a catch—this new version may quietly consume...

My wife is a very heavy user of Chrome, but seems to be pushing it to the limits of its abilities. My question is what are the limits? Can I have 200 tabs open? Her machine is a 13th generation Intel i7. I increased her memory from 32GB to 64GB. Windows 11 Pro, current version. She usually has...