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’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...
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...
CVE-2025-54913 — Windows UI XAML Maps (MapControlSettings)
Race-condition elevation-of-privilege: what admins, developers, and defenders need to know
Summary
What it is: CVE-2025-54913 is an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows UI XAML Maps component (MapControlSettings). The...
When a talented concept designer reimagines Windows as a glossy, translucency-first OS, the result is visually striking — but the work of turning a mood board into a production-ready operating system is a far bigger engineering challenge than a nine‑minute video suggests. The AR 4789 “Windows...
Tech detective or headline shorthand? Here’s what’s actually changing under the hood — and what you can do about it.
A popular write‑up on Touch Reviews summarizes a claim by a tech creator (named in that piece as “epcidiy”) that Windows 11’s perceived sluggishness — slow right‑click menus...
Elon Musk has unveiled Macrohard, a tongue‑in‑cheek name for a very serious ambition: build an AI‑first software company that can simulate and then ship the kinds of products Microsoft dominates today—productivity suites, developer tools, even gaming technologies—using swarms of specialized AI...
After nearly a decade of half-finished theming work, Windows 11’s Dark Mode finally begins to behave like a coherent system feature: preview builds now render many of the long‑standing white “flashbang” file‑operation dialogs in dark chrome, while Microsoft simultaneously adjusts the platform’s...
Microsoft’s latest Insider preview activity delivers the first tangible repair to a long-running visual grievance: several legacy file-operation dialogs in Windows 11 are now respecting the system Dark theme in test builds, reducing the jarring white “flash” users have endured for years while...
Microsoft has quietly started repairing one of Windows 11’s most persistent visual grievances: several long-neglected file‑operation dialogs are now rendering in Dark Mode in preview builds, a staged change that addresses the jarring white “flashbang” popups users have complained about for...
Microsoft’s long-running “flashbang” problem is finally losing its punch: recent Windows Insider preview builds include dark-themed versions of long-neglected file‑operation dialogs (copy/move progress, delete confirmations, access‑denied prompts and several related warnings), and the change is...
Microsoft has quietly begun fixing one of Windows 11’s most visible cosmetic complaints: the jarring white pop-ups that break the flow for users who run the OS in Dark Mode. Insider builds now include code that darkens long-neglected file‑operation dialogs — copy/move progress, delete...
Microsoft has quietly begun repairing one of Windows 11’s most persistent annoyances: several long‑neglected file‑operation and system dialogs are now respecting the system Dark theme in recent Insider and Release Preview builds, marking the first visible progress toward a genuinely system‑wide...
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Windows 11’s dark mode has taken a meaningful step out of “half-finished” status: recent Insider and Release Preview builds now render several long‑neglected file‑operation dialogs in dark palettes, reducing the jarring white popups that have plagued dark‑theme users for years while signaling a...
Microsoft has quietly begun closing one of the most nagging visual gaps in Windows' user experience: the inconsistent application of Dark Mode across system UI elements. The change, first observed in a recent Windows 11 preview build, moves previously bright, jarring file operation dialogs into...
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Microsoft has quietly begun to close one of Windows 11’s longest‑running UX gaps: preview builds now show a set of legacy file‑operation dialogs obeying the system Dark theme instead of blasting users with bright white popups, and Microsoft is shipping the code behind that change inside Windows...
Microsoft’s long-running dark‑mode headache is finally showing measurable progress: recent Windows Insider preview builds (notably the 26100.xx series) are darkening a stubborn set of file‑operation and related system dialogs that previously forced bright white “flashbang” pop‑ups into otherwise...
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Microsoft’s quiet theming work in recent Insider previews finally moves one of Windows’ most visible UX complaints from “annoying” to “fix-in-progress,” as file‑operation dialogs — the copy/move progress windows, delete confirmations, access‑denied prompts and similar surfaces — are now...
Microsoft has quietly begun repairing one of Windows 11’s most persistent cosmetic and usability fractures: several long-neglected file‑operation dialogs are now receiving a proper dark theme in Insider preview builds, a change that reduces the jarring white “flash” users have complained about...
Microsoft’s long‑running dark‑mode problem has finally stopped being a perpetually unfinished promise: recent Windows Insider preview builds now show several legacy file‑operation dialogs obeying the system Dark theme instead of popping up as blinding white interruptions. The change — visible in...