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Files v4.0 arrives as a major rework of one of the most polished third‑party File Explorer replacements for Windows 11, introducing a unified Omnibar, a refined Dual Pane workflow, expanded cloud drive support, and built‑in cryptographic verification tools — changes that push Files from a...

Microsoft’s Start menu design debate has taken a new turn: a growing chorus of users are asking the company to bring the new, reimagined Start menu interface—the one shipping with recent Windows 11 updates—back to the “regular” Windows 10 experience, and that request exposes tensions between...

The Windows 11 Widgets Board has been an area of curiosity and, at times, frustration for power users and casual newcomers alike. For months, it has languished in a halfway state: more than a glanceable news scroll, less than a true dashboard of productivity, often ignored even by third-party...

Redesigning the user experience has become one of Microsoft’s top priorities in recent years, and Windows 11 is at the forefront of this initiative. A key development—now being tested within the Windows Insider Program—sees Microsoft merging all existing Search settings into a unified page in...

The Start menu has long been the signature gateway to the Windows experience, continually evolving yet never straying far from its foundational purpose: launching applications and accessing key functionalities with minimal friction. In recent years, however, Microsoft’s design choices—especially...

Microsoft's latest update to PowerPoint brings a notable enhancement to the core experience of creating presentations: the modernization of placeholders, those familiar dotted boxes that serve as guides for placing text, images, charts, and other content on a slide. For millions of users who...

Microsoft’s continuous refinement of the Windows 11 experience is again taking center stage, this time with a quiet but significant visual overhaul: a comprehensive redesign of the laptop battery charge indicators. For most users, the battery icon resting in the corner of the taskbar is little...

In the dynamic landscape of operating system refinement, the smallest interface changes can radiate meaning far beyond their surface. The recent overhaul of the battery icon in Windows 11 is a case in point—a subtle, often-overlooked part of the taskbar, but one that touches nearly every Windows...

Hi everyone, We have a new build for PCs releasing today to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring – Build 10158. This build is full of improvements to stability and quality as well as some additional UI polish. It also has some great new features included for Microsoft Edge as well. Here is what’s...

Hi everyone, we have a new Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview build for Windows Insiders on the Fast ring today – Build 10136. There are a couple of things that you’ll need to pay close attention to in order to upgrade to this build. The first is that we are only offering it to phones that are...

Hi everyone from the Build 2015 conference happening right now in San Francisco! If you haven’t already, Link Removed about all the Windows 10 announcements we made today. If you’re at Build this week or at Ignite in Chicago next week – keep your eye out for me and say hello! Today we have a...