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A senior former Microsoft engineering leader has publicly admitted he “fought hard” to keep the long‑standing ability to place the Windows taskbar on the left or right of the screen — a customization that Windows users have taken for granted since the 1990s but which Microsoft removed in Windows...

Windows 11 now includes a native, production-grade MIDI stack — Windows MIDI Services — bringing first-party support for MIDI 2.0 while modernizing and preserving compatibility with MIDI 1.0, a move that promises to reshape how Windows hosts musical instruments, DAWs, and live-performance rigs...

Microsoft’s latest non-security preview for Windows 11—packaged as KB5077241 and appearing as Builds 26200.7918 and 26100.7918 in the Release Preview Channel—delivers a surprisingly practical mix of small productivity refinements and notable platform changes. The update surfaces a one‑click...

FlyOOBE’s latest updates — and a fast-growing family of community tools like RemoveWindowsAI and Winslop — have sharpened the Windows 11 “debloat” toolset, adding smarter detection and deeper removal options for the operating system’s expanding AI surfaces while also widening the safety...

Microsoft’s February cumulative update (KB5077181) appears to have closed a dangerous loop that left a small but painful cohort of Windows 11 commercial devices unable to boot, marking the end of a months‑long episode of update-induced instability that began with a failed December 2025 security...

Windows 11’s new Windows MIDI Services finally delivers on promises that have been decades in the making: native MIDI 2.0 support, a reworked MIDI 1.0 stack with modern conveniences, built-in multi-client access to ports, automatic translation between MIDI 2.0 and 1.0, loopback/app-to-app...

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...