If you’re building or upgrading a PC this month, I’d check these exclusive Newegg codes first — they stack with sales on cases, SSDs, laptops, desktops, and more | Windows
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter It’s a rough time to be shopping for PC hardware and laptops. Believe me, as…
Read moreMicrosoft starts testing massive update to Windows 11’s Magnifier | Windows
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Windows Insiders have a bunch of new builds to check out. Microsoft released five Insider…
Read moreHP OmniBook Ultra 16 RTX Spark review: I love almost everything about this laptop, except carrying it | Windows
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Read moreWindows 11 users won’t get Windows 12 in 2027, just a new wallpaper instead, as Microsoft retires Bloom | Windows
Microsoft is reportedly preparing Windows 11 version 27H2, the big Windows 11 2027 update, as a full OS swap like 24H2, with some extra love for quality and performance. Windows…
Read moreMicrosoft is fixing one of Windows 11’s most frustrating sign-in problems with a new Windows Hello update | Windows
Microsoft is testing a small but (very) welcome change to the Windows 11 sign-in screen, where you can type your PIN while Windows Hello is still trying to recognize your…
Read moreSurface Laptop Ultra vs. Lenovo Pro 9n: Which laptop is best? | Windows
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Mini-LED Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra The Surface Laptop Ultra starts at a more affordable price,…
Read moreMicrosoft proposes 30-foot sound wall near incoming Granger data center | Windows
GRANGER, Ind. (WSBT) — Microsoft is proposing a 30-foot sound wall along the north side of its data center under construction in Granger, hoping to address neighbors’ concerns about noise…
Read moreMicrosoft’s Clustered Geometry Shrinks Ray Tracing Memory Use From 4.7GB To 267MB In DirectX Demo – EGamers.io | Windows
Get our stories first on GoogleAdd egamers.io as a preferred source and our reporting shows up higher in your Top Stories. An NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 ran a single demo…
Read moreMicrosoft Ignite 2026: 7 Questions for CX Leaders — CX Today | Windows
For contact center leaders, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center provides the platform, including voice, digital channels, routing, and service tools. Microsoft Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) adds an intelligence layer to…
Read moreSpecial Microsoft Flight Simulator controller for Xbox is ‘ready to fly’, US sales begin | Windows
ⓘ Honeycomb The Honeycomb Echo Aviation Controller XPC uses profiles from MSFS 2024. US reservation holders are getting purchase links for the Echo Aviation Controller XPC again, priced at $179.99….
Read moreAMD can be “data center first” and still care about gaming — CEO Lisa Su is just telling investors where the money is | Windows
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter AMD CEO Lisa Su, in an interview with Yahoo Finance, said yesterday that AMD is…
Read moreEvery Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why: no “Starting” screen and 70% less RAM, even with two accounts signed in | Windows
Discord’s current Electron client and its new Rust client launching side by side on two Lenovo ThinkPads running Windows 11 Discord’s new Rust client had its friends list loaded before…
Read moreThis free app explains where your GPU memory actually goes, and it comes from a Microsoft engineer | Windows
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter A free tool with a bit of a strange name will let you know what’s…
Read moreMicrosoft quietly made Windows 11 run better on 8GB PCs — I found 3 affordable laptops from $599 that I’d actually buy | Windows
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Microsoft has been busy at work reducing the amount of RAM that Windows 11 consumes,…
Read moreCopilot is coming to Windows 11’s new Search UI later this year, but Microsoft promises it’ll be entirely optional this time | Windows
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Last month, Microsoft announced a brand new, overhauled Windows Search experience that has been rebuilt…
Read moreMicrosoft swears Windows 11 isn’t “less secure,” even as 1,100+ security fixes landed last month, and warns hackers can now exploit them within hours | Windows
Windows needed more than 1,000 security fixes in October 2026, but Microsoft swears it’s not “less secure” and warns users against hitting the brakes on Windows updates. The company worries…
Read moreDynamics 365 Sustainability Joins ERP | Windows
Microsoft is bringing Microsoft Sustainability Manager, its carbon, water, and waste management product, into the Dynamics 365 ERP portfolio, where Microsoft refers to it as Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sustainability. The…
Read moreMicrosoft Office 2024 Home is just $119.97 through 11/8 | Windows
The package includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. That covers writing assignments, organizing spreadsheets, building slide decks, and keeping notes somewhere more searchable than the kitchen counter. Outlook isn’t included,…
Read moreMicrosoft Entra Global Secure Access Unifies Private and Internet Access | Windows
Key Takeaways: Microsoft has combined Entra Private Access and Entra Internet Access into a single Global Secure Access offering. Organizations can apply Conditional Access policies across SaaS apps, private applications,…
Read moreMeta joins Microsoft and Google in offering voluntary exits to employees, report says | Windows
The tech industry has laid off thousands of workers in the past few months, and now voluntary exits are starting to gain popularity. Meta has reportedly joined Microsoft and Google…
Read moreWindows 11 looks shockingly natural on a foldable phone, and this OnePlus Open project proves it | Windows
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter TL;DR A developer managed to get Windows 11 running on a OnePlus Open foldable. Many…
Read moreWindows 11’s Paint has a no-click hacking bug, and even with auto-updates on, you may not have the fix | Windows
You shouldn’t delay or ignore updates for Windows 11, and that includes its inbox apps. Microsoft Paint apparently has a security flaw, and while there’s a patch, nobody is actually…
Read moreMicrosoft is betting on native WinUI over web app slop across Windows 11, and even Color Picker and Text Extractor have moved to it in PowerToys | Windows
PowerToys 0.102 has moved Color Picker and Text Extractor to WinUI 3, joining Image Resizer, Quick Accent, Mouse Jump, and the Keyboard Manager editor, which all switched over this year….
Read more“Used 5% of the time”: AI already made your RAM pricier, and now OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it’s wasted in your Windows PC | Windows
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it’s “quite terrible” for everyone to keep the world’s limited DRAM in their own PCs, used 5% of the time, when AI data centers could…
Read moreDiscord is ditching Electron, and the result is a faster app that uses less RAM | Windows
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter The Discord app will soon use less RAM and power, all without losing a single…
Read moreThe next time you swear in a Microsoft Teams meeting, it could appear on a transcript | Windows
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts are about to become more profane, at least if your organization’s…
Read moreSomeone turned Halo Wars into a first-person game, and it actually works | Windows
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter If you’re like me, a massive Halo fan, you’ve probably played Halo Wars at some…
Read moreMicrosoft is tackling the Outlook problem that wastes my time every week | Windows
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Searching for a specific email in Outlook can prove challenging. Outlook search can sometimes return…
Read moreDiscord is killing its Electron app that can eat 4GB of RAM on Windows 11, and the Rust rebuild uses just 290MB | Windows
Discord is finally getting rid of Electron! Co-founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy has confirmed that Discord is rebuilding its client in Rust, and it’ll be using GPUI to handle the…
Read moreIf you skipped Windows 11’s 2026 update over bugs, Microsoft has now fixed all but one, and even that’s mitigated | Windows
To everyone holding on to last year’s OS version, Microsoft’s Windows 11 25H2 status page now says, “We recommend updating to version 26H2 to stay up to date, secure, and…
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