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Windows 11 is quietly cleaning up one of its most frequently used — and most complained‑about — interface elements: the right‑click context menu. This user‑facing overhaul, prototyped as a Split Context Menu and exposed to developers through a new WinUI control called SplitMenuFlyoutItem...

Microsoft is quietly testing a background preloading feature for File Explorer in Windows 11 that aims to eliminate the familiar "cold start" pause and make the file manager appear ready the instant a user clicks its icon. Background File Explorer has long been a cornerstone of the Windows...

Microsoft’s WinUI team has quietly sketched a practical way to fix one of Windows 11’s most persistent user complaints: the cluttered, inconsistent right‑click context menu. A new split‑menu pattern — shown during a recent WinUI Community Call and surfaced in developer preview materials —...

Microsoft's WinUI team has quietly handed developers the first real tool to address one of Windows 11’s most persistent annoyances: the bloated, hard-to-scan right‑click context menu—by prototyping a split, hybrid menu control that groups related actions under a single, smarter line item...

Microsoft’s WinUI team has quietly offered a practical route to uncluttering one of Windows 11’s most persistent annoyances: the right‑click context menu in File Explorer and other shell surfaces. The proposal — shown in a recent WinUI Community Call demo and exposed to developers through...

Microsoft’s plan to unclutter Windows 11’s right‑click menus is a practical, developer‑first fix that could finally tame years of menu bloat — but the path from WinUI demo to everyday File Explorer behavior will require careful migration tooling, enterprise controls, and accessibility guarantees...

Microsoft’s long‑running frustration with the bloated, cluttered right‑click menu in Windows 11 may finally be getting a pragmatic fix: Microsoft’s WinUI team has demonstrated a Split Context Menu design — driven by a new WinUI control currently shown as SplitMenuFlyoutItem — that promises to...

Microsoft quietly showed a credible path out of one of Windows 11’s most persistent gripes — the long, crowded right‑click (context) menu — with a split context‑menu concept surfaced during a WinUI developer presentation, but the change is still an early, developer‑first proposal and not a...

Microsoft’s WinUI team quietly showed a path out of one of Windows 11’s longest‑running UX gripes: the bloated right‑click (context) menu. The company is experimenting with a Split Context Menu pattern — powered by a new WinUI control referred to as SplitMenuFlyoutItem — which collapses related...

Microsoft is preparing a targeted overhaul of Windows 11’s long‑complained‑about right‑click menu in File Explorer — a redesign, previewed in WinUI developer materials, that replaces jammed vertical lists with split menu entries driven by a new WinUI control called SplitMenuFlyoutItem...

Microsoft appears to have acknowledged one of Windows 11’s longest‑running UX complaints — the increasingly cluttered and slow right‑click context menu — and is rolling out a developer‑facing fix that could shrink, reorganize, and modernize how apps surface commands in File Explorer and other...

Microsoft’s long-simmering complaint about bloated right-click menus may finally get a meaningful fix: recent developer previews and a WinUI community demonstration show a split context menu approach that surfaces a single sensible default action for a file type while tucking related but less...

Microsoft is quietly rolling back one of Windows 11’s longest-running UX complaints: the cramped, repetitive, and hard-to-navigate right-click context menu in File Explorer — and the fix, as reported from community previews and developer channels, is a new “Split Context Menu” design driven by a...

Microsoft appears to be widening the canvas for Windows 11’s visual language and smoothing a long-standing friction point for hybrid web apps: the Acrylic “frosted glass” material will be usable in smaller, targeted regions of WinUI apps, and WebView2-based apps are receiving drag‑and‑drop...

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 has quietly placed a cluster of legacy web components — the EdgeHTML-era pieces that once connected Windows and the web — onto Windows’ official deprecation list, signaling a formal step toward their eventual removal and accelerating the platform’s shift to Chromium-based embedding and...

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...