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Windows 11 Pro for Workstations is Microsoft’s workstation-tier client operating system for high-end PCs, positioned above Windows 11 Pro and below Windows Server, with support for larger memory, more CPU sockets, ReFS storage features, SMB Direct networking, and persistent-memory workloads. It...

Microsoft’s Dev Drive is a Windows 11 storage feature that creates a ReFS-formatted volume for developer workloads, and PCWorld is now arguing that the same small-file optimizations can also help some games load and stream assets faster. That does not make Dev Drive a secret turbo button for...

A stray Insider build and an accidental release of internal configuration files have pulled back the curtain on what looks like a deliberate push by Microsoft to productize a set of higher‑end Windows SKUs aimed at power users, workstations and advanced enterprise scenarios. The leak —...