Windows 11’s internet speed test is getting a divorce from Bing, thankfully
Windows 11’s internet speed test is getting a divorce from Bing, thankfully

‘This is the kind of stuff that pushed me to Linux’: Microsoft has abandoned a trick to promote Bing that many Windows 11 users hated.

Intel’s APX offers ‘better performance’ in Windows 11 according to new Insider setting
Intel’s APX offers ‘better performance’ in Windows 11 according to new Insider setting

Microsoft has begun testing the option to enable Intel’s Advanced Performance Extensions, or APX, which will bring a performance boost to some apps — although no chips with APX support are available as yet.

Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees
Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India. In a message to employees, Microsoft chief people officer Amy Coleman writes that this gives staff members “the opportunity to leave Microsoft with financial support and career planning resources” as the company looks to trim staff without another […]

Windows 11’s ‘whole ISO’ squeezed into a CD-ROM

Professional Windows crusher NTDEV has showcased their next-generation tool for compressing Windows 11 with a video of an install that fits on a single CD-ROM.

Windows 11 feature spotted in testing promises another speed boost
Windows 11 feature spotted in testing promises another speed boost

Existing PCs will miss out on this incoming trick for Intel CPUs which will also apply to future AMD Ryzen chips.

Windows 11 could get a serious performance boost, but there’s a catch

A hidden setting spotted in an experimental Windows 11 build suggests Microsoft is preparing to take advantage of Intel’s latest CPU technology. But don’t expect your PC to suddenly become faster after an update.

Windows XP debuted 25 years ago today
Windows XP debuted 25 years ago today

Windows XP became available at retailers for the first time on this day back in 2001.

I hope Apple’s touchscreen MacBook takes some lessons from this Lenovo laptop
I hope Apple’s touchscreen MacBook takes some lessons from this Lenovo laptop

It looks like the long-rumored touchscreen MacBook might actually get announced next week, and after using the Lenovo Yoga 9n for our testing of Nvidia’s RTX Spark platform, it got me thinking: this is a lot of what I want from a touchscreen MacBook. Like the Apple silicon in modern MacBook Pros, RTX Spark is […]

Your Windows touchpad is about to make scrolling long pages way less tiring

Microsoft is adding accelerated, edge, and single-finger scrolling to Windows touchpads, making it easier to move through long documents, webpages, and code with less effort.

Windows 11 could get an alternative to Recall, but AI skeptics aren’t fans
Windows 11 could get an alternative to Recall, but AI skeptics aren’t fans

A classic case of ‘solving a problem that doesn’t exist’: Windows 11 could get a reined-in alternative to Recall, but AI skeptics still aren’t fans.