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Web browsers have become the modern operating system for a huge slice of daily work, but that convenience comes with a cost: tab sprawl, profile fragmentation, and the constant mental overhead of remembering where each service lives. Pake, an open-source tool built on Rust and Tauri, tackles...

Microsoft has quietly postponed the public preview of the long‑promised Windows 11 Agenda view — the compact schedule panel that was expected to return to the Taskbar calendar flyout — telling reporters the feature is being held back so Microsoft can “actively refine the foundational aspects of...

Microsoft’s ongoing taskbar work in Windows 11 is a study in incremental course‑corrections: the company is shipping small but meaningful usability fixes while simultaneously shelving one of the most eagerly requested restorations — a compact “Agenda” view for the calendar flyout — as it reworks...

Microsoft’s recent moves to restore long-missed Taskbar capabilities mark a notable course correction for Windows 11 — the company is quietly returning features many users considered essential, from a restored Agenda view in the Taskbar calendar to prototypes that reintroduce movement, resizing...

Microsoft has confirmed the highly anticipated Agenda view for the Windows 11 taskbar calendar has been delayed from its originally stated preview window, and the company says it is taking extra time to “refine the foundational aspects” of the experience before it reaches customers...

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...