… I also expect to hear more about Microsoft’s efforts to rewrite parts of Windows 11 to improve performance and the overall experience. Microsoft outlined its plan to fix Windows 11 earlier this year, and we’ve started to see plenty of early improvements already. …
… Media: https://twitter.com/WindowsCentral/status/2052787412040904924 Windows Central reports that this new boost mode can result in up to 40 percent faster app times for Microsoft’s own apps, and up to 70 percent faster for the Start menu and context menus throughout Windows 11. …
… The changes are part of Microsoft’s ongoing effort to improve Windows 11. Microsoft is removing “unneccessary” Copilot buttons from apps, modernizing the Run prompt, fixing File Explorer performance, and improving the memory footprint of Windows. …
… Microsoft has created Coreutils for Windows from the uutils open-source project, a cross-platform reimplementation of the GNU coreutils in Rust. “These are Linux-like command-line utilities that run natively on Windows,” says Davuluri. “Whether you’re moving between Linux, macOS, WSL, containers, o… …
Microsoft Build 2026 kicked off with a keynote presentation that introduced some developer-focused Windows updates, an OpenClaw-based AI assistant called Scout, the new Majorana 2 quantum computing chip, and a Surface mini PC designed for AI developers. …
… Microsoft is rolling out some long-awaited changes to Windows Update to users on its Dev and Experimental Windows Insider channels, including the ability to indefinitely delay updates up to 35 days at a time. …
Microsoft is on a mission to fix Windows 11, and part of that involves improving the often-frustrating Windows Update experience. …
At its Build developer conference, Microsoft is launching Microsoft Execution Containers, a policy-driven layer to make it more secure to run things like OpenClaw on Windows. It’s going a step further too, by allowing a companion app for OpenClaw to run contained on Windows PCs. …
… Microsoft has done this many times in the past, particularly with the releases of Windows 7 and Windows 10. “There are a lot of considerations when you think about the versioning of an operating system itself, and I think for us, a lot of the core proposition with Windows 11, or quite frankly, with… …
Microsoft is starting to remove “unnecessary” Copilot buttons from its Windows 11 apps. In the latest version of the Notepad app for Windows Insiders, Microsoft has removed the Copilot button in favor of a “writing tools” menu. …