Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) It’s been a rough week for Microsoft’s Edge browser in the court of public opinion as users grumbled about the addition of a controversial “buy now, pay later” financing feature and another layer of pop-up messages that tries to dissuade users from installing Google Chrome . But Microsoft isn’t totally unresponsive […]
Enlarge / The new Start menu kills Live Tiles and puts the All apps view on a separate screen. Like the taskbar, it’s cleaner-looking but also less customizable and flexible than before. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Microsoft may have given the taskbar and Start menu a fresh coat of paint in Windows 11, but the updated […]
Enlarge / A PC running Windows 11. (credit: Microsoft) When we reviewed Windows 11 nearly two months ago, it was obvious that some areas of the operating system were still under construction . Many of the built-in apps were still in need of updates, and a handful of features that had been promised back at […]
Enlarge / Some of Windows 11’s new emoji designs. (credit: Microsoft) We’re nearly two months out from the public release of Windows 11 , and Microsoft is still slowly updating bits and pieces of the operating system that weren’t quite ready in early October. Microsoft announced redesigned emoji back in July , and the next […]
(credit: javelinnl) Microsoft is pushing another bug-fix update for Windows 11 out to its Beta and Release Preview Insider channels today, and like all the Windows 11 bug-fix updates released so far, the list of resolved issues is more than long enough to vindicate anyone who decided to stay on Windows 10 for a few […]
Enlarge / The new Snipping Tool updates its predecessor’s Windows 7-era UI while integrating the features of Windows 10’s duplicative Snip & Sketch tool. (credit: Microsoft ) If you’ve been noticing strange issues with some of Windows 11’s built-in apps and tools since the calendar rolled over to November, you’re not alone. In a post […]
Enlarge / The Surface Laptop Go. (credit: Jeff Dunn) Microsoft may have another Surface announcement to make before the end of the year, according to a rumor from Windows Central . The report claims that Microsoft is working on a low-cost, education-focused device, codenamed “Tenjin, ” designed to compete with Chromebooks in schools. The laptop […]
Enlarge (credit: AMD) Microsoft and AMD have both released patches to fix the AMD Ryzen performance bugs present in the initial versions of Windows 11, according to an AMD knowledgebase article that was updated late yesterday. AMD has provided a new chipset driver to fix a problem that broke the “preferred core” feature that can […]
Enlarge / Android apps listed in the Microsoft Store. (credit: Microsoft) Windows 11 shipped without the promised support for Android apps from the Amazon App Store, but Microsoft has announced the first preview of the particular feature for Windows Insiders in the Windows 11 Beta channel today. The initial preview is only available to users […]
Enlarge / A PC running Windows 11. (credit: Microsoft) Now that Windows 11 is out , the arduous process of fixing the new operating system’s bugs can begin. The OS got its first Patch Tuesday update earlier this week, and now another update is rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Beta and Release Preview […]