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Meta has quietly yanked the native Windows 11 WhatsApp client and replaced it with a WebView2-wrapped instance of the web app, a change that is already rolling out and which — according to multiple independent tests and community reports — produces markedly higher RAM usage, weaker Windows...

Meta has quietly replaced the native WhatsApp client on Windows 11 with a WebView2-wrapped instance of web.whatsapp.com — a change that crashes the promise of a lightweight, integrated Windows experience and leaves users facing significantly higher memory use, degraded notifications, and a more...

Microsoft appears to be widening the canvas for Windows 11’s visual language and smoothing a long-standing friction point for hybrid web apps: the Acrylic “frosted glass” material will be usable in smaller, targeted regions of WinUI apps, and WebView2-based apps are receiving drag‑and‑drop...

Meta’s WhatsApp for Windows is being pulled away from a true native Windows 11 experience and folded into a Chromium-based web wrapper — a change that will log many users out and force a fresh sign-in flow, and that threatens to trade Windows integration and efficiency for development...

A week on Windows 11 after years on Linux exposed something broader than a few missing tools: it highlighted a philosophical divide in how modern desktops treat ownership, defaults and background complexity, and it turned routine tasks that were effortless on Linux into moments of friction...

Windows 10 will reach its official end of support on October 14, 2025, but one critical piece of the platform — Microsoft Edge and the WebView2 runtime — will continue to receive security and feature updates on Windows 10 (22H2) through at least October 2028, even for devices that do not...

When Microsoft began shipping keyboards labeled “Copilot+” with a dedicated Copilot key, the gesture felt like a signal: AI was now a hardware-first priority for Windows. What started as a promotional flourish, however, has quickly exposed the long-running tension between hardware gimmicks and...

Microsoft’s insistence that the “new Outlook” for Windows delivers a native experience has ignited one of the more consequential UX debates in the Windows ecosystem this year: a web-first client shipped as the default, with missing functionality, ads for free users, and a forced migration that...

If you just unboxed a new Windows 11 laptop, there are five settings you should consider turning off right away to tighten privacy, reduce distractions, and reclaim background resources for the tasks that matter most. Background / Overview Windows 11 ships with a range of convenience features...

Microsoft pushed Windows 10 cumulative update KB5065429 to 22H2 machines this week, a mandatory security rollup that arrives as the platform approaches its October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline — and it’s tightly linked to Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) enrollment path...

If you hate Windows 11’s visual vibe, there’s a fast, surprisingly polished way to make it behave more like a Linux desktop or macOS without reinstalling your OS: install a full alternative shell called Seelen UI and treat Windows like a platform you can theme, tile, and tweak into something you...

Microsoft pushed a busy week of changes across Windows 11 and the broader Windows ecosystem: September’s Patch Tuesday landed with a handful of quality fixes and a long-requested calendar clock return, Microsoft released ISOs for Windows 11 version 25H2 to Insiders, the SSD “bricking” saga...

Microsoft’s Windows week delivered a heavy mix of stabilization, incremental feature rollouts, and operational housekeeping: official ISOs for Windows 11 version 25H2 are now available to Windows Insiders, Patch Tuesday delivered several quality fixes (including a restored clock in the calendar...

Seelen UI arrives like a skin you can live inside — not just a theme or taskbar tweak, but a full, web‑powered desktop environment that can make Windows 11 feel like an entirely different operating system. Background / Overview Seelen UI is a community‑driven project that replaces large parts of...

Microsoft has quietly moved a cluster of legacy Edge components onto Windows’ official deprecated-features list, formally flagging Legacy Web View, Hosted / Windows Web Applications (Windows 8/8.1 / early UWP HTML/JavaScript apps), legacy Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and the EdgeHTML (Legacy Edge)...

Microsoft has quietly placed a cluster of legacy web components — the EdgeHTML-era pieces that once connected Windows and the web — onto Windows’ official deprecation list, signaling a formal step toward their eventual removal and accelerating the platform’s shift to Chromium-based embedding and...

Microsoft has quietly moved a set of EdgeHTML-era web components onto Windows’ official deprecation list, marking the next step in a long shift away from platform-specific web integration toward Chromium-based runtimes and standards-based Progressive Web Apps. This change — which names Legacy...

Microsoft’s quiet entry on the Windows deprecation list this summer signals a decisive end to another generation of web integration in the OS: Legacy Web View, EdgeHTML-based web apps, legacy PWAs, and the EdgeHTML DevTools are now officially deprecated, and developers are being pushed toward...

Windows 11’s 24H2 is now shipping support for Emoji 16.0 — but there’s a catch: the system emoji panel doesn’t yet expose the new icons, and rendering remains inconsistent across apps and web services. What looks like a late-but-welcome Unicode update has instead exposed a long-standing Windows...

Title: CVE-2025-53791 — What Windows admins need to know about the Microsoft Edge (Chromium) “security feature bypass” (as of September 5, 2025) Summary (short) CVE-2025-53791 is tracked by Microsoft as a “Security Feature Bypass” in Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based). Microsoft’s advisory...