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Bringing the macOS "Quick Look" experience to Windows has quietly become one of the most useful productivity upgrades power users can add — it converts a routine file-browsing chore into an instant, keyboard-driven glimpse that saves time and mental context switching. Background macOS’s Quick...

Microsoft’s October preview update KB5067036 has introduced a serious networking regression that blocks VPS and VPN-dependent connections from Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) when using mirrored networking, and the vendor’s limited public guidance has left many developers and administrators...

Microsoft’s December preview update for Windows 11, KB5070311, appears to have quelled a string of AMD Radeon “GPU hang” and driver-timeout reports in a subset of AAA games — but the fixes come with caveats: the patch is a preview release, the evidence is largely anecdotal, and AMD’s own driver...

Microsoft rolled out a Windows 11 preview update that quietly fixes several nasty stability problems — including an Explorer.exe crash that could take down the taskbar and Start menu — but the same preview also introduced a jarring visual regression in File Explorer’s dark mode and other...

Windows 11’s December preview update has introduced an ironic new hazard for dark‑mode devotees: File Explorer can briefly flash a bright white screen — a literal “flashbang” — after installing KB5070311, and Microsoft has acknowledged the problem while engineers work on a fix. Background /...

Microsoft’s December preview update meant to finally make File Explorer’s dark mode feel finished instead delivered a different kind of punch: a brief, intense white flash that appears when File Explorer opens or changes view while the system is set to Dark theme, a regression Microsoft has...

Microsoft’s December preview for Windows 11, delivered as KB5070311, promises long‑awaited dark‑mode polish and a raft of feature tweaks — and promptly delivered a high‑visibility regression that flashes a bright white screen in File Explorer when the system is set to Dark mode. Background and...

Microsoft has confirmed that an August 2025 optional preview update left the password sign-in icon invisible on some Windows 11 lock screens — a small visual bug with outsized usability and accessibility impact that persisted for weeks until Microsoft rolled a fix into later cumulative updates...

Microsoft pushed a focused Release Preview package on December 1, 2025 — KB5070311 — that updates Windows 11 on both the 24H2 and 25H2 servicing tracks (OS Builds 26100.7309 and 26200.7309) and pairs modest but widely useful UI polish with device‑gated Copilot+ improvements and an important...

Microsoft has confirmed that the December 1, 2025 Windows 11 preview update bundle that includes servicing stack update KB5071142 contains at least two user-facing regressions: a white flash when opening File Explorer while dark mode is enabled, and a rendering bug that can make the password...

Microsoft has released the November 2025 non‑security preview update for Windows 11 (KB5070311), a Release Preview flight that delivers focused UI polish, device-specific Copilot+ refinements, and a reliability fix for an LSASS instability — and administrators should treat it as an optional...

Microsoft has acknowledged a persistent Windows 11 bug that makes the password icon disappear from the lock‑screen sign‑in options, and — crucially for many users — there is no immediate, widely distributed fix: the icon is invisible but still functional, and Microsoft’s public guidance for...

Microsoft’s November 20, 2025 preview release for Windows 11, version 23H2 — KB5070312 (OS Build 22631.6276) — is a modest, quality-first cumulative update that pairs a non‑security cumulative LCU with a servicing stack update and a handful of targeted bug fixes. Delivered as an optional...

Microsoft is pushing a focused polish cycle to Windows 11 Release Preview Insiders with KB5070311 — delivering builds 26100.7296 and 26200.7296 — that blend Copilot+ PC AI upgrades, broad File Explorer and Settings refinements, the now‑familiar Drag Tray for drag‑to‑share workflows, and an...

Microsoft has quietly closed out one of the oddest Windows 11 regressions of the year: an optional preview update temporarily turned Task Manager’s Close (X) into a lie, allowing invisible taskmgr.exe processes to pile up in the background — and the November cumulative has now fixed it...

Microsoft’s July 22, 2025 preview cumulative (KB5062663) for Windows 11 surfaced as a compact but consequential quality rollup — delivered for both servicing families as OS Builds 22621.5699 and 22631.5699 — that fixes a handful of high‑impact reliability problems, bundles a servicing‑stack...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 Start menu has been rebuilt from the ground up in the November 2025 update, and the change is more than cosmetic: the new Start is a single, vertically scrollable launcher that surfaces the full All‑apps inventory on the main page, offers three distinct browsing modes...

Microsoft’s rebuilt Start menu for Windows 11 is rolling out as part of Microsoft’s October/November 2025 servicing preview, and you can either wait for the supported server‑side activation or enable it immediately on machines that already have the updated servicing bits — but doing so requires...

Microsoft quietly shipped SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 Preview 5 on November 4, 2025 — a focused quality update that does not add headline features but plugs several reliability holes in the fledgling GitHub Copilot integration and smooths the path for administrators and developers who...

Microsoft has quietly closed a small but persistent Windows annoyance: the Start‑menu option labeled “Update and shut down” will now, in the scenarios Microsoft targeted, actually power off the PC after applying updates instead of finishing in a rebooted and powered‑on state. This fix landed...