Windows
- Aug- 2022 -17 August
New Native WhatsApp Windows Application Enables Texting Even When Your Phone is Offline
WhatsApp Web is a godsend for people who work on a desktop. But, unfortunately, the desktop app is very slow and clunky, and even the web version has similar issues. It seems the messaging giant has finally taken note, and recently released a new app for Windows users. The previous…
- 10 August
OneDrive Turns 15 as Microsoft Celebrates With a Revamped Home Experience
Microsoft is celebrating the 15th anniversary of OneDrive, and marking the event with new announcements for the service. Microsoft is revamping the OneDrive experience with an all new home experience. The new OneDrive home will display the most relevant files at the top, categorising them into recently used files and…
- 9 August
Arm64EC Leaves Experimental Mode, Gets Official Support on Windows 11
Microsoft announced Arm64EC last year, which was a new application binary interface (ABI) for Windows 11 on ARM. This enabled easier development of interoperable apps that run on both x64 and ARM. Since it’s announcement last year, Arm64EC was in experimental mode undergoing further testing and bug fixes. Finally, Arm64EC…
- 3 August
Latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build Brings a New PC Game Pass Widget
Microsoft is releasing yet another Windows 11 Insider Preview Build to the dev channel. Build 25174 actually has some decent additions, including a new PC Game Pass widget, and also a decent number of fixes with that. New Game Pass Widget Windows 11 puts a lot of focus on…
- Jul- 2022 -20 July
Windows Terminal Finally Becomes The Default Windows 11 Command Line With New Insider Build
Microsoft has recently released another Windows Insider preview build to the beta channel. These are actually two builds, Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.436 and Build 22622.436. The only difference being, the higher build number will have the new features turned on by default. Build 22622.436 has an new an…
- Jun- 2022 -11 June
New Windows Insider Preview Build Adds File Explorer Tabs and Dynamic Widgets on your Taskbar
Microsoft has just started pushing out yet another Insider Preview Build for Windows 11, this time exclusive to the Dev Channel. Build 25136 introduces a couple of highly-anticipated, new features that aim to enhance the user experience across the board. This update comes just two days after the recent Release…
- May- 2022 -28 May
New Windows 11 Insider Preview Build Brings Improvements to Account Settings Page
Microsoft has released yet another Windows 11 Insider preview build to the dev channel. Preview build 25126 is light on new features, but it does address some pressing bugs from earlier Insider releases. In an earlier Windows 11 Insider Preview Build, Microsoft made it easier for users to track their…
- Apr- 2022 -8 April
Here’s Everything New in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22593
Microsoft has recently released another Windows Insider preview build to the dev and beta channel. Windows 11 Preview Build 22593 is light on new features, but brings plentiful of bug fixes to improve the overall user experience. The file explorer’s default homepage on Windows is now renamed to home, from…
- 5 April
Microsoft is Integrating Windows 365 Natively into Windows 11 With 4 New Features
Microsoft was one of the first companies back in the pre-pandemic era (yes, life before COVID did exist) to hop on the hybrid workplace bandwagon. Companies that hire employees to work both physically at designated offices and remotely at their home were consistently growing in prevalence. Since most firms use…
- Mar- 2022 -21 March
New Windows 11 Preview Build Features Deeper Android Integration with Your Phone App Update
Microsoft has recently released another Windows Insider preview build to the dev channel. Windows 11 Preview Build 22579 brings a host of improvements and some new features like multi-touch gestures and the option to exclude removable USB drives from BitLocker encryption. You can read about the significant changes below, or…
- 10 March
Valve Releases Windows 10 Drivers for the Steam Deck
Valve promised Windows support for its handheld-console, the Steam Deck, when it was initially announced last year. Fast forward almost a year and the Steam Deck has started shipping to its first set of customers but without any real support for Windows. That finally changes today. Valve has just released…
- 10 March
New Windows 11 Insider Preview Build Resurrects Movie Maker, Albeit For a Price
Microsoft has recently pushed another Windows 11 Insider Preview Build to the dev channel. Preview Build 22572 introduces two new applications as inbox apps, a new search highlight feature, and an updated UI for Print Queue among other things. You can read about the major additions below, and for the…
- Feb- 2022 -26 February
New Windows 11 Insider Preview Build Brings Updated Taskbar Design for Tablets
Windows on ARM is still a mixed bag, although it has continued to improve steadily over the years. Recently, Microsoft released a new Windows 11 preview build for ARM64 PCs with new UI optimisations for tablets. Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22563 introduces a new taskbar state for tablets to…
- 16 February
Windows 11 Gets Android App Support, New Notepad and Media Player Apps, and Taskbar Enhancements in Major Update
Despite a somewhat shaky start, Windows 11 is going strong. At launch, it was riddled with bugs and strange inconveniences but Microsoft has worked hard to patch up everything. I am Windows 11 Insider myself and even on the Beta Channel, the builds are almost perfectly stable with no noticeable…
- Jan- 2022 -9 January
Microsoft PowerToys Adds Always-on-Top Window Functionality, Finally Offering A Native Solution For Pinning Windows
Microsoft’s PowerToys is getting better by the day. What started out as a niche collection of tools and utilities meant to assist power users is quickly turning into a Windows must-have. Thanks to winning features such as the Run launcher, Color Picker, and FancyZones, and its recent Microsoft Store availability,…
- Dec- 2021 -15 December
Windows Terminal is Becoming the Default Command Line Experience in Windows 11
Since the dawn of time, the default terminal emulator in Windows has been the Windows Console Host (conhost.exe). Therefore, the default command line experience was tied to Windows Console Host as PowerShell and Command Prompt, and other terminals, would always open inside it. This is about to change. Starting in…
- Nov- 2021 -24 November
Microsoft Edge (Stable) Just Got A Whole Lot More Secure But At A Slight Performance Cost
Microsoft has just released stable version 96.0.1054.29 for Microsoft Edge over the past weekend and while it does bring a wide variety of new features and improvements, there is one addition that clearly stands out. Super Duper Secure Mode, a special high-security mode inside Microsoft Edge, is now part of…
- 17 November
Microsoft Kills x64 Emulation on ARM-based Windows 10 PCs and Makes It Exclusive to Windows 11 Only
Last year back in October, Microsoft announced that it has joined hands with Qualcomm in efforts of making x64 emulation possible on Windows 10 on ARM, aka Windows 10 devices running on ARM processors. This was quite the exciting news as it finally gave users hope that proper 64-bit x86…
- 17 November
Windows 11 is Getting A New Media Player
Microsoft has never quite been able to find its grips with a go-to media player for Windows. Let’s be honest, people only use the Windows Media Player because they don’t have the actual player they want to use installed or maybe because it’s too much of an effort to change…
- 13 November
Microsoft Releases Windows 11 Build 22000.346 With New Emojis And A Laundry List Of Bug Fixes
Fresh off the heels of Build 22499, Microsoft has just released a new cumulative update for Windows 11, but this time in the Beta and Release Preview channels. Build 22000.346 is essentially a fix dump as it brings forth a plethora of quality of life improvements to Windows 11 while…
- 1 November
A New Version Of Windows Defender is Coming To Windows 10 and 11
Security is one of the most essential aspects of any operating system. As such, Windows 10 and 11 come with a modern, native anti-malware component built in to protect users from all kinds of harmful software. So, when you do your risky business, you feel safe even without a third-party…
- Sep- 2021 -29 September
Microsoft Finally Releases The Redesigned Paint App For Windows 11, But Only For Insiders
Preparations for Windows 11‘s general availability on October 5 are in full swing. However, that doesn’t mean Microsoft has forgotten the Insider version of Windows 11, in fact, that’s where the exciting stuff is happening. Just announced today, a redesigned version of the iconic Paint app is making its way…
- 17 September
Microsoft Finally Rolls Out Redesigned Photos App To Insiders and Releases PowerToys in the Microsoft Store
Things are starting to ramp up as we approach Windows 11‘s initial release of October 5. Microsoft is patching the little corners and crevices up in time to make the general availability version of Windows as polished as possible. While the version we’ll see on October 5 isn’t going to…
- 10 September
Microsoft Releases Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22454 and 22000.184
As we inch closer to Windows 11‘s launch, Microsoft is still releasing regular updates to the Windows Insider Program to ensure that the OS is ready for its October 5 release. Today, Microsoft announced two new Insider Preview builds separately and these are definitely more incremental updates than feature-packed ones.…
- Aug- 2021 -28 August
Can’t Meet Windows 11’s Minimum Requirements? Microsoft is Hear To Rub It In Even More!
Microsoft became the victim of severe backlash after it initially announced the system requirements for Windows 11. The minimum set of hardware compatible with Microsoft’s upcoming OS was astronomically high compared to the same for its contemporary, Windows 10. Immediately afterwards, Microsoft released a statement saying it will revaluate its…
