Microsoft sold a future for Windows 11 that promised elegance, cohesion, and an OS remade around people and pocket-sized AI — what arrived instead is a mixed bag of incremental polish, baffling regressions, and several once‑promised features that either disappeared or never delivered the user...
Microsoft has quietly turned the lock screen from a decorative afterthought into a genuinely useful glance surface: you can now pin, rearrange and remove full widgets on Windows 11’s lock screen using Settings → Personalization → Lock screen, adding up to four small-sized widgets for quick...
When a neat, third‑party app can deliver the widget experience Windows 11 promised but never quite finished, it’s worth paying attention — and for many power users the app in question is Better Widgets, a compact Microsoft Store title Pocket‑lint called “the Windows 11 widget experience done...
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.
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Microsoft’s November Insider wave has quietly reshaped the Windows 11 preview landscape: new user-facing refinements landed on the 25H2 preview stream while the Canary channel was advanced into a platform-only 26H1 branch for next‑gen silicon, and Microsoft began surfacing the early plumbing for...
Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7070 (delivered as KB5070300) to both the Dev and Beta channels, a focused preview that layers incremental UI polish, practical manageability improvements, and a handful of gated experiments atop the 25H2 preview stream.
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Microsoft released a new Insider Preview for Windows 11 today that refines the Widgets experience, eases Smart App Control management, streamlines Quick Machine Recovery, and reintroduces people activity indicators in File Explorer — all delivered under update KB5070300 which moves qualifying...
Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7070 (packaged as KB5070300) to the Dev and Beta channels, an incremental but meaningful update that tightens recovery workflows, refines the Widgets user interface, and removes a handful of practical friction points for testers and IT...
Microsoft is rolling out Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7070 (KB5070300) to both the Dev and Beta Channels, continuing the enablement-package approach to 25H2 previews and widening the set of staged features and reliability fixes available to Insiders. This flight preserves the temporary...
Microsoft’s latest Canary build for Windows Insiders, reported as Build 27982, continues the steady stream of UI and usability experiments in Windows 11 by expanding lock screen personalization, reworking the Widgets board with multiple dashboards and new left-side navigation, and bringing an...
Tiny11’s refreshed builder makes a clear promise: a lean, debloated Windows 11 25H2 image that strips Microsoft’s newest inbox AI and collaboration components and removes the Microsoft Account requirement from OOBE — all while relying on Microsoft’s own servicing tools to rebuild official ISOs...
Microsoft has quietly put the “Windows 12” party on hold: the next public release from Redmond is Windows 11, version 25H2, arriving as a lightweight enablement update in the second half of 2025 rather than a ground-up OS reboot — and that decision changes what upgrade planning should look like...
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Windows 11’s Widgets board is an underused but powerful way to surface the information you need without opening full apps — and adding, customizing, or removing widgets is straightforward once you know where to look and what to expect. This guide distills the practical steps for adding and...
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Apple's latest widget move — an expanded sports widget on macOS that brings iPhone and iPad widgets to the desktop — has reignited a familiar frustration: Windows 11's Widgets Board still feels unfinished, underpopulated, and deprioritized compared with the widget momentum Apple and other...
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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.
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Windows 11 ships with a range of convenience features...
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When you unbox a new Windows 11 laptop the out‑of‑the‑box experience is deliberately full‑featured — but many of the conveniences Microsoft enables by default trade away privacy, clarity, and system headroom. A short, safe checklist of five settings you should disable right after setup can...
Windows 11’s sleek redesign promised speed and simplicity — what many users didn’t bargain for was a steady stream of promotional content running inside the shell, quietly consuming cycles, network bandwidth, and attention. Recent reporting and large-scale user tests show Microsoft’s...
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Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday brings a substantial, feature‑heavy cumulative update to Windows 11—KB5065426—delivering a mix of visible UI polish, staged Copilot+ AI capabilities, privacy controls for on‑device generative features, and a set of bug and security fixes that administrators...
Microsoft has set the long-awaited public rollout of Windows 11 in motion: the OS began its phased public release on October 5, 2021, as a free upgrade for eligible Windows 10 PCs and as the factory-installed operating system on new devices shipping with Windows 11. Background
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