Windows 11 still won't let you name a file CON or NUL. Raymond Chen traces it to DOS 1.0, and our 26H2 test found NUL.txt now ...

Microsoft said it would reduce ads in Windows 11, but its popular wallpaper app, was recently updated with adware-like ...

Windows 11 still carries Windows 95’s heap manager, recompiled for old apps. Raymond Chen explains EmulateHeap, and how to ...

Microsoft is renaming the Photos app to Photo Viewer and turning OneDrive Photos into the new Photos Gallery. We've tried both on Windows 11.

Ex-Apple engineer Ray Fernando says CUDA has him eyeing the Surface Laptop Ultra, and Steven Sinofsky calls it a replay of ...

Windows 11's kernel32.dll and ntoskrnl.exe still use DOS-era 8.3 names. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen explains why renaming ...

"Choose Chrome, the browser built by Google" is a new message that pops up when you browse Google.com in Microsoft Edge.

The Windows Production PCA 2011 Secure Boot certificate expires October 19. Windows 11 PCs still boot, but check if yours has ...

Microsoft says it won't allow ReFS on USB drives on Windows 11, and it makes you wonder what happened to the big ReFS bet.

Mikhail Parakhin, former Windows boss, has called out Microsoft for still shipping an "unusable" Windows 11 taskbar ...

Windows 11 is getting accelerated app launches, starting with Edge, by skipping a temporary process. Microsoft says any app ...

Microsoft says Windows 11 is up to 20% more responsive, keeps up to 2GB more data in RAM and frees 200MB on 8GB PCs by ...