Enlarge / This browser popup, which you see in Windows 10 the first time you try to open a link after installing a new browser, isn’t present in current beta builds of Windows 11. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) A piece in The Verge today has drawn attention to the way current Windows 11 betas are handling […]
Enlarge / Get excited! The new Calculator app is here!! (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Microsoft is giving the Windows 11 treatment to a handful of core apps in the next Insider Preview build of the upcoming operating system. Mail, Calendar, the Calculator, and the Snipping Tool are all being revamped, and if you’re running the latest […]
Parallels Desktop 17 running Windows on a Mac. [credit: Parallels ] Parallels Desktop 17 has arrived with support for macOS Monterey and Windows 11. Further, the popular virtualization software for Macs is now a universal binary, making deployment a little less complicated for many IT professionals. Note that you can only run ARM versions of […]
Enlarge / Asus (and others) are tweaking their motherboards to ensure Windows 11 compatibility. (credit: Asus) If you’re using a pre-built desktop or laptop PC made within the last three or four years, Windows 11’s sometimes-confusing , sometimes contentious security-oriented new system requirements won’t be a problem for you—all of the security features Microsoft is […]
Microsoft Program Manager Aria Carley answers Microsoft Tech Community users’ questions about Windows 11 upgrades once the new OS version reaches general availability. In a July 21 livestream, Microsoft Program Manager Aria Carley answered Microsoft Tech Community users’ questions about the final hardware requirements to upgrade to Windows 11. Although hardware requirements—including but not limited […]
Enlarge / Microsoft has advertised “Xbox Velocity Architecture” to summarize a range of game-loading boosts for its newest consoles. The upcoming DirectStorage API is primed to bring some of those benefits to Windows PCs, but now that it is spread across two OSes, with varying speed expectations on each, will it have the same impact? […]
Enlarge / Setting Windows 11 to one of its dark themes also darkens the background of the Settings app—but not the background of most traditional apps, like Resource Monitor. (credit: Jim Salter) Microsoft made early Windows 11 builds available via its Windows Insider program the week after its first major announcement, and we’ve spent quite […]
Microsoft claims that “the new Windows is available on the widest array of devices,” but the Internet had a minor panic attack when requirements were outlined yesterday. [credit: Microsoft ] Since Microsoft’s announcement of Windows 11 yesterday, one concern has reverberated around the Web more loudly than any other—what’s this about a Trusted Platform Module […]
Enlarge / Xbox interface on Windows 11. (credit: Microsoft) Like many of Microsoft’s PC-specific announcements over the years, today’s sprawling Windows 11 unveil included a gaming-specific component—and at least one with major, next-gen performance in mind. Arguably the biggest component is DirectStorage, a DirectX 12 Ultimate API that had been previously announced (and then launched) […]
Enlarge / The latest Windows focuses heavily on improved task management, prettier UI, and a much more ambitious Microsoft Store. (credit: Microsoft) Earlier this morning, we got our first official look at Windows 11 by way of Microsoft’s What’s New For Windows event. The new OS offers several significant, functional changes to what we’ve become […]