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Microsoft’s upcoming enforcement change for Conditional Access in Entra ID is a clear pivot toward consistency and defense‑in‑depth: policies that target All resources will now be evaluated even when those policies include resource exclusions, and sign‑ins that request only minimal OpenID...

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...

Microsoft’s forced migration away from the lightweight, native Mail & Calendar apps toward a single web‑wrapped Outlook has left many Windows 11 users feeling betrayed — the new Outlook behaves like a browser in a window, feels sluggish on tablet devices, and is reigniting debates about...

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...

Windows 11’s steady migration from compiled native UI to embedded web runtimes has crossed an inflection point: core shell surfaces and major first‑party apps are increasingly rendered by Chromium-based tooling such as WebView2 and Electron, and that choice is now drawing public criticism from...

WhatsApp’s decision to replace its native Windows desktop client with a WebView2-wrapped web app has left many Windows 10 and 11 users looking for a way to restore the older, native experience — this feature‑rich, lean WinUI/UWP client that used less RAM, provided tighter Windows integration...

Windows 11 users are waking up to a simple — and increasingly expensive — problem: a growing number of popular desktop apps are consuming far more RAM than they used to, in many cases because they run inside browser engines (Electron, Chromium via WebView2, or similar wrappers) rather than as...

LG’s reversal on the Copilot shortcut is a rare but telling victory for consumer pushback: after days of viral complaints that a Microsoft Copilot icon had been pushed to many webOS TVs without a clear uninstall path, LG says it will add an option to let owners delete the Copilot shortcut —...

Microsoft’s Entra ID sign-in stack on Windows 11 is getting a significant under‑the‑hood refresh: WebView2 — the Chromium‑based embedded web control used across modern Windows apps — can now power Entra ID sign‑ins through the Web Account Manager (WAM). This change, delivered beginning with the...

Microsoft is testing a focused developer diagnostic called the Delayed Message Timing API to surface exactly where internal messaging delays occur inside complex web apps — a move aimed at making WebView2‑powered experiences on Windows 11 easier to diagnose and, over time, faster for end users...

Microsoft’s browser team has quietly proposed a focused, practical tool to help developers diagnose one of the trickiest performance problems in modern web apps — delayed cross-context messaging — at the same time Windows 11 continues to lean on WebView2 to deliver more web-driven UI surfaces...

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...

WebView2 isn’t just another runtime — it’s increasingly the web platform Microsoft is embedding into core parts of Windows, and that shift is reshaping how Windows 11 delivers web-powered UI, system features, and even productivity tooling. What WebView2 is (briefly) and why it matters WebView2...

Windows 11’s next wave of visible changes is being shaped not by fresh native controls but by a quiet, strategic shift toward embedding the web inside the OS — and that single decision has implications both subtle and profound for everyday users, administrators, developers, and gamers. Neowin’s...

Windows users are waking up to a simple — and costly — reality: many of the most popular desktop apps are now web apps in disguise, and that design choice is silently inflating RAM usage, causing sluggishness, shorter battery life, and harder choices about how much memory your next laptop needs...

Microsoft’s decision to restore the long‑missing Agenda view to Windows 11’s Notification Center is good news for productivity—but the implementation already in Insider preview raises clear trade‑offs: the feature is rendered with WebView2 (an embedded Edge/Chromium host) rather than a pure...

Microsoft's long-missed Agenda view is returning to Windows 11’s Notification Center — but the first previews show Microsoft implemented it as a WebView2 (Edge/Chromium) component rather than a native shell control, a choice that raises clear trade-offs for performance, visual consistency, and...

Microsoft’s promised Agenda view is back in Windows 11’s Notification Center, and the early previews confirm a useful, glanceable calendar surface — but one report argues Microsoft built it as a web-based WebView2 component rather than a native shell control, raising fresh questions about...

Microsoft is rolling out a targeted fix for one of the most persistent pain points in the Windows Teams experience: sluggish startup, high memory use, and call-time instability — by shipping a new background process, ms-teams_modulehost.exe, that will isolate call and media handling from the...