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  1. Windows 11 Start Menu Redesign: All Apps Surface and 3 View Modes (KB5067036)

    Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update reimagines the Start menu into a single, vertically scrollable launcher that exposes the full “All apps” list on the main surface, adds three distinct viewing modes (Category, Grid and List), and gives users explicit controls to mute or remove the Recommended...
  2. Windows 11 KB5044384 Preview Update Triggers Task Manager Zero Count Bug

    Microsoft’s latest preview-quality release for Windows 11 has backfired for a sizable number of users: the optional KB5044384 update, issued to address and polish aspects of Windows 11 24H2, introduced a Task Manager display bug that misreports process counts and, in some installs, coincided...
  3. Windows 11 KB5067036 Preview Causes Task Manager Duplicate Processes After Close

    Microsoft’s latest optional preview for Windows 11, KB5067036, has delivered a visible Start menu refresh and other small improvements — and, for a subset of users, a nagging regression that leaves Task Manager processes alive after you click the window Close (X) button, spawning multiple...
  4. Windows 11 KB5067036 Task Manager Duplicates Bug Explained

    Windows 11’s October preview (KB5067036) is shipping attractive UI changes — a redesigned Start menu, colorful battery icons and fixes for Update & Shut Down — but an emerging, strange regression is putting one of the OS’s core utilities under a microscope: multiple reports show Task Manager’s...
  5. Enable the Redesigned Windows 11 Start Menu with ViVeTool (KB5067036)

    Microsoft has begun rolling out a redesigned Start menu for Windows 11 via the optional preview update KB5067036, and enthusiasts who don’t want to wait for Microsoft’s staged activation can manually reveal the new interface today using the community utility ViVeTool — provided their PC already...
  6. Windows 11 October 2025 Release Preview: Start Menu Redesign and Admin Protection

    Microsoft’s optional October preview updates put a redesigned, scrollable Start menu and colorized battery indicators into Release Preview test builds, and they bundle a small but consequential set of security, reliability and enterprise-facing features — including a preview of a new...
  7. Windows 11 Start Menu Redesign Preview: Should You Install KB5067036?

    Microsoft has begun turning on a rebuilt Start menu for Windows 11, but the change is being delivered as a preview (KB5067036) with a staged, server‑gated rollout, so most users are better off waiting for the finished cumulative release unless they’re prepared to accept preview‑level risk...
  8. KB5067036 Windows 11 Ottobre 2025: Start redesign Copilot e Dettatura Fluida

    Microsoft ha pubblicato un secondo aggiornamento cumulativo di ottobre 2025 per Windows 11: il pacchetto preview KB5067036 porta con sé una ridefinizione visibile del menu Start, nuove integrazioni di Copilot/“Click to Do”, miglioramenti significativi per l’accessibilità (tra cui la Fluid...
  9. Windows 11 Preview Update Fixes Missing UI and HDR Behavior

    Microsoft has pushed a targeted update to Windows 11 preview builds that addresses several missing or misbehaving features reported by Insiders, while also documenting a small set of high‑risk regressions Insiders should weigh before installing. Background / Overview Windows Insider channels...
  10. KB5065790 Windows 11 23H2 Preview Fixes SIM PIN Sign‑in RDP IME and SMBv1

    Microsoft has quietly released the optional preview update KB5065790 for Windows 11 version 23H2 (Build 22631.5984), a compact quality rollup that fixes a handful of high‑impact reliability issues — notably a SIM PIN sign‑in freeze, multi‑monitor Remote Desktop shutdowns, problematic Chinese IME...
  11. Microsoft 365 Copilot on iOS: AI Previews, Edits Move to Office Apps

    Microsoft is redesigning the mobile Copilot experience on iOS: beginning this fall the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will act primarily as an AI-powered viewer and conversational hub, offering in-context file previews, summaries and Q&A — while editing for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files will be...
  12. Raycast Windows Beta: Emoji Picker & Clipboard History Upgrade for Power Users

    Raycast’s Windows beta already improves two of the most frequently used — and often frustrating — pieces of Windows input: the emoji picker and the clipboard history, delivering smoother search, persistent storage, and a more keyboard-centric workflow that will matter to power users and...
  13. Windows 11 Insider Preview: One-Click Bing Speed Test and Background AI Tasks

    Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds quietly add a one‑click internet speed‑test shortcut to the taskbar network flyout — but the shortcut simply opens Bing’s web‑based speed test rather than running a native, offline measurement — and the same builds also include a subtle but...
  14. Azure Service Groups Preview: Cross-Subscription Visibility for Observability

    Microsoft has opened public preview for Azure Service Groups, a tenant-level abstraction that lets organizations create flexible, cross‑subscription groupings of resources for visibility, observability, and lightweight management without changing RBAC or policy inheritance across the resource...
  15. Azure App Service Quota Self-Service Preview: SKU-level Capacity in the Portal

    Microsoft’s public preview of a self-service quota management experience for Azure App Service brings a long-requested level of transparency and control to scaling web apps — a dedicated App Service Quota blade in the Azure portal that shows usage per SKU, lets teams request new limits inline...
  16. Windows 11 24H2 KB5064081 Preview: AI Features, UI Polish, and Stability

    Microsoft has released an optional preview cumulative update for Windows 11, version 24H2 — KB5064081 — which advances eligible machines to OS Build 26100.5074 and bundles a mix of staged AI features, UI polish, reliability fixes, and a servicing‑stack refresh; many of the consumer‑facing...
  17. Windows 11 CertEnroll Event ID 57 Noise Fixed by KB5064081 (Aug 2025)

    Microsoft has quietly closed the loop on a recent Event Viewer nuisance in Windows 11 by shipping a targeted fix in the August preview update, addressing repeated CertificateServicesClient log entries that were cluttering system logs and unnerving admins despite posing no functional harm...
  18. Windows 11 KB5064081 Preview: Task Manager CPU fix, AI actions, Recall home page

    Microsoft’s optional preview update KB5064081 for Windows 11 version 24H2 arrives as a broad, staged roll‑out that bundles a servicing‑stack refresh with a large set of consumer and enterprise changes — from a redesigned Recall homepage and new AI actions in File Explorer to a long‑overdue...
  19. Windows 11 24H2 Preview: KB5064081 (26100.5074) SSU + AI Features

    Microsoft released an optional Preview update on August 29, 2025 — KB5064081 (delivered as OS Build 26100.5074) — that packages an updated servicing stack plus a broad set of consumer and enterprise-facing changes for Windows 11 (24H2). The package continues Microsoft’s pattern of shipping...
  20. Microsoft VM Conversion: Migrate VMware to Hyper-V with Windows Admin Center

    Microsoft has quietly pushed a significant tool into public preview that aims to simplify one of the messiest tasks in datacenter life: converting and migrating virtual machines from VMware vCenter/ESXi to Microsoft’s Hyper-V infrastructure using a built-in Windows Admin Center extension called...