What RAM crisis? Microsoft reportedly hikes cost of Windows 11 for computer makers, rubbing software salt into PC pricing wounds.
Worried about the RAM crisis? Microsoft isn’t, if Windows 11’s Weather app is anything to go by.
MSN Weather acts as the native weather app for Windows 11 and all it does it run a bunch of Chromium subprocesses in the background to retrieve the forecast data. This causes it to use 5x more memory than the macOS weather app. And, oh, you also get to enjoy ads!
A developer has ported 1990’s Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a to x64 so it can run natively on Windows 11 PC systems.
A champion coder’s latest confection is a Piet Quine – a GIF image that prints itself byte-for-byte.
Microsoft needs to sort out Windows Update — we don’t want random OneDrive apps shoved onto our PCs without asking.
32GB is the ‘no-worries zone’? Not anymore as Microsoft backtracks on past RAM recommendations, while Apple’s seemingly having troubles of its own.
You can run the deGDID script on your computer to delete cached GDID keys and prevent Microsoft’s servers from minting new ones in the background. The firewall you put up with this script will break certain Microsoft services and features, however, but you can always reverse it.
As EU regulators consider smart glasses restrictions, here are the countries with intelligent eyewear bans.