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Microsoft’s latest Release Preview build for Windows 11 gives us a concrete look at the next feature drop — a measured package of quality‑of‑life enhancements that Microsoft says will start reaching production PCs in the coming weeks. The preview includes a curated subset of Emoji 16.0, a...

Microsoft has quietly begun replacing the familiar Windows 11 Start menu with a much larger, single-page design that rearranges pinned apps, promotes Microsoft’s recommendations, and folds the complete app list into the main surface — and it’s rolling out now as part of the late‑2025 feature and...

Microsoft has started rolling out Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7859 (KB5077223) to the Beta Channel, delivering a small but focused set of reliability fixes and a single new account-related suggestion that will be gradually enabled for Insiders who opt in to receive the fastest preview...

Microsoft’s February cumulative for Windows 11, shipped as KB5077181, lands as a broad stability-and-security repair but arrives with a complicated aftertaste: it formally addresses the Nvidia “black screen” crashes and several gaming regressions introduced in January, while simultaneously being...

Microsoft and Ericsson have quietly moved 5G from a nice-to-have connectivity option to an enterprise-grade, IT-manageable capability baked into Windows 11 — and the implications for always‑connected, AI‑ready laptops could be profound. Background For the past few years, the industry has tested...

Microsoft has shipped a pair of new Windows 11 Insider pre-release updates today — a Release Preview channel cumulative (KB5077241) that covers both 24H2 and 25H2 builds, and a Beta channel enablement package (KB5077223) for 25H2 — and the notes reveal a mix of small but practical polish...

AMD's latest Ryzen chipset driver refresh continues the quiet revolution at the foundation of modern Windows PCs: the July 2024 Ryzen Chipset Driver revision 6.07.22.037 extends official support to the new Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" family, adds a dedicated PMF driver for the Ryzen AI line, and...

Microsoft and Ericsson have stitched enterprise-grade 5G control directly into Windows 11, promising IT teams a way to deploy, secure, and optimize always‑connected laptops at scale—complete with automated eSIM switching, Intune integration, and a local AI agent that dynamically steers...

The long-promised moment when laptops behave more like smartphones — automatically connecting to the best cellular network, enforcing corporate policies, and staying secure without user fiddling — has taken a major practical step forward today with a formal productization from Ericsson and...

Windows 11 can be maddening, especially when a fresh reinstall still leaves you with hiccups—but with the right safety net and methodical tuning, you can wrest control back and turn Microsoft’s general-purpose OS into a pragmatic, low-noise gaming platform. XDA’s recent walkthrough — a hands-on...

Microsoft’s February cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5077181, intended to deliver security fixes and a handful of quality improvements, has sparked a fresh wave of community concern after gamers on multiple subreddits reported a new, rhythmic in‑game stutter that began appearing immediately...

Microsoft’s February 2026 Windows 11 cumulative update appears to have rolled back a gaming‑crippling kernel crash that’s haunted some players since the January patches — but the fix comes alongside a messy rollout that continues to remind users and admins that patching Windows is still as much...

Nex Computer’s new NexPhone is less a revival of Windows Phone than a deliberately compromised attempt to put a pocketable, dockable Windows PC into a smartphone form factor — a bold experiment that trades peak mobile performance and carrier integration for the convenience of carrying a Windows...

Is this software disguised with malware or not. I installed it and selected all the changes I wanted and then there were issues. So I used its option to turn off everything and change it back to default. But some of the settings did not change back so now my windows is slightly changed. I had...

Microsoft hat im Januar 2026 eine umfangreiche Windows‑Aktualisierung ausgeliefert, die einerseits kritische Sicherheits‑Patches und Servicing‑Stack‑Änderungen enthält, andererseits jedoch mehrere spürbare Regressionspfade auslöste — von nicht startenden Systemen über eingefrorene Anwendungen...

Microsoft’s February cumulative for Windows 11, KB5077181, has left a notable subset of systems in restart loops, produced SENS sign‑in failures, and in some cases broken network connectivity — and the fastest reliable fix for many affected users is to roll the update back and pause updates...

Knowing how much video RAM (VRAM) your Windows 11 PC has is a tiny piece of information that can save you hours of troubleshooting — and a bad purchase — when a game, video editor, or 3D app complains about memory or texture streaming. This deep-dive pulls together four reliable methods built...

Microsoft’s February 10, 2026 cumulative for Windows 11 — KB5077181 — is leaving a sizeable subset of machines effectively unbootable: after installation many systems enter an infinite restart loop, preventing access to the desktop and, in some cases, forcing recovery consoles or full image...

Google’s Gemini is quietly testing a feature called “Import AI chats” that — if it ships as shown in leaks — would let users upload exported conversation archives from other chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and others) and continue those threads inside Gemini without losing prior context or...

Microsoft Edge's New Tab page has quietly become a mixed bag: an increasingly crowded canvas of news cards, widgets, Copilot modules, and promotional panels that many Windows 11 users never asked for. A new community-built solution, Fluent New Tab, aims to push back — replacing Edge’s default...