windows 11

On June 5, 2026, Hackaday highlighted an experiment by Omores that gets Windows 11 running on an early-2000s LGA 775 desktop with an AGP Radeon HD 4650, a Core 2 Quad Q6600, and 3GB of DDR1 memory. The trick works because some of Windows 11’s missing AGP plumbing can be borrowed from older...

Windows 11’s default setup experience has become a recurring fight over accounts, ads, telemetry, update control, and muscle memory, and How-To Geek’s latest customization guide argues that a clean install now requires deliberate countermeasures rather than a few harmless preference changes. The...

Microsoft is preparing Windows 11 context-menu changes that would make the right-click menu faster, simpler by default, and configurable around the actions people use most, after years of complaints about hidden commands, clutter, and inconsistent behavior across File Explorer and the desktop...

Microsoft’s Phone Link lets Windows 11 users send and receive Apple Messages from an iPhone on a PC today, provided the iPhone is paired over Bluetooth, running a supported iOS version, and granted the right notification, contacts, and messaging permissions. That is a real bridge between two...

PowerToys, Microsoft’s free Windows utility suite for power users, now includes roughly thirty tools, and a new TweakTown audit argues that Windows 11 users should enable only the modules that solve daily problems instead of treating the whole package as a default install. That is the right...

Microsoft’s Phone Link lets Windows 11 users pair an iPhone over Bluetooth to send and receive basic iMessage and SMS conversations from a PC, but the feature remains constrained by Apple’s messaging model and Microsoft’s workaround-heavy integration. That makes the headline both true and easy...

Microsoft’s Windows design leadership said on June 3, 2026, that Windows 11 context menus are being reworked to become faster, simpler by default, and configurable around the actions people use most. That short promise lands five years after Windows 11 turned the right-click menu into one of the...

Microsoft’s Windows design lead said on June 3, 2026, that Windows 11 context menus are being reworked to become faster, simpler by default, and configurable around the actions people use most. That is a small sentence with a long tail. The right-click menu is not glamorous, but it is one of the...

Microsoft has signaled that Windows 12 will not be announced around Build 2026 or Computex 2026, with Windows chief Pavan Davuluri instead steering attention toward Windows 11 improvements and a new wave of AI-focused PC hardware in Taipei. That is not a retreat from the Windows roadmap so much...

Microsoft’s latest Windows Insider reshuffle has opened the door for OfflineInsiderEnroll 2.6.6, an unofficial script updated in June 2026 to enroll Windows 11 PCs into preview channels without requiring a Microsoft account. The tool does not crack Windows Update so much as expose a...

Microsoft is moving WinUI development into more public repositories in June 2026 while introducing Microsoft UI Reactor, an experimental open-source C# framework, as part of a broader Windows 11 effort to replace web-heavy shell components with native code. The announcement is not just another...

Microsoft has added semantic, natural-language photo search to the Windows 11 Photos app for Copilot+ PCs, letting users find locally indexed pictures and videos by typing descriptions such as “sunset at the beach” or “family time.” The feature sounds small, almost quaint, compared with Recall...

Microsoft is working on a faster, simpler, and customizable right-click context menu for Windows File Explorer and the desktop, with the commitment surfacing in early June 2026 after years of complaints that Windows 11’s shortcut menus buried useful commands and slowed everyday file work. The...

Microsoft used Build 2026 in San Francisco to demonstrate how AI agents could personalize Windows 11 from a single natural-language request, with Windows Latest reporting that Microsoft showed agents coordinating wallpaper, accent colors, RGB lighting, themes, and even registry-backed Explorer...

Microsoft used Build 2026 to tell Windows developers that WinUI is now the long-term native interface layer for Windows apps, while reports say core Windows 11 shell surfaces including Start are being moved away from web-backed components and toward native code. That is not just a...

Microsoft has handed the creative account for Microsoft Copilot to Droga5, according to Ad Age reporting published June 4, 2026, as the company tries to sharpen Copilot’s public identity during an increasingly crowded AI assistant race. The move matters because Copilot is no longer just a...

Facebook video downloading on Windows 11 in 2026 is less about finding a magic “download” button than choosing the least risky workflow among browser tools, extensions, and desktop apps that save Facebook videos as local files. The practical answer is that browser-based downloaders such as...

Microsoft has revived in-person Windows Insider meetups in 2026, bringing regular Windows users face to face with product leaders before Microsoft Build in San Francisco and planning more stops, including London on June 22. That sounds small beside the company’s larger Build-stage narrative...

Microsoft began testing a quieter Windows 11 Widgets experience on May 1, 2026, in Insider preview builds, changing the board so it opens first to user-selected widgets instead of the MSN-powered Discover feed while disabling hover launch, taskbar badging, and some alerts by default. The...

On June 3, 2026, Paul Thurrott published an account of using Microsoft’s new Windows Development Skills and the WinApp CLI with Claude Code to generate a native Windows 11 WinUI 3 app from a plain-language prompt. The result was not a miracle, but it was more important than a demo: it showed...