Microsoft vows to make Windows 11’s File Explorer much faster — and it’s about time

Fed up with File Explorer running sluggishly in Windows 11? Microsoft’s doing ‘foundational’ work to fully fix it.

Microsoft confirms why Windows 11 updates might be weird right now, and look like they’re failing — but it’s nothing to worry about

Microsoft warns that some consumers ‘might experience one additional restart during installation’ of Windows 11 updates.

Kaspersky suspects Chinese hackers planted a backdoor into Daemon Tools in ‘widespread’ attack

The cybersecurity company says it’s seen thousands of infection attempts, and at least a dozen successful hacks after users installed malicious versions of the popular Windows software.

Microsoft is finally ditching the junk MSN feed in Windows widgets
Microsoft is finally ditching the junk MSN feed in Windows widgets

Microsoft is finally giving up on showing the junk feed of MSN news when you open the widgets feature in Windows 11. After allowing Windows 11 users to disable the MSN feed more than two years ago, Microsoft says it will soon hide it by default as part of an effort to make widgets “quiet […]

Microsoft continues the good work on Windows 11, with tweaks to ‘quiet’ ads — and that big taskbar change is ‘coming soon’

I’ve had my doubts about Microsoft’s campaign to fix Windows 11 this year, but they’re slowly melting away.

Windows 11 is such a memory hog that I’ve had to resort to RAM optimizers — but can Microsoft turn things around with project K2?

Windows 11 and other applications are using way too much RAM, so I found a temporary solution while Microsoft’s project K2 begins.

Microsoft now recommends 32GB of RAM as the future-proof ‘no worries’ config for gaming — 16GB becomes the new ‘practical starting point’ during the RAMageddon

Pretty much no games recommend more than 16GB of RAM, even in the unoptimized era we’re living in right now. Only a few titles at their highest presets say 32GB is ideal, so Microsoft claiming that 32GB is the future-proof…

Microsoft’s CEO promised the world to consumers in a speech about fixing Windows 11 — but one thing Satya Nadella said worries me

Satya Nadella talking about consumers in relation to Windows 11 is mostly reassuring, with a notable exception.

How to check if your Windows PC is ready for the secure boot certificate expiry in June 2026

Not every Windows PC will automatically get the new Secure Boot certificates before the June 2026 deadline. Here’s how to check yours and fix it before it becomes a problem.

Window’s Secure Boot certificates are expiring in June — here’s what you need to do

The Secure Boot certificates powering one of Windows’ most critical security features expire in June 2026 — and not every PC is going to get the fix automatically.