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Surprise surprise, people are still in no hurry to switch to Windows 11, Dell reveals
By Monica J. White published
Everyone will upgrade any day now, right?

Windows 11 is going to start quietly preloading File Explorer in the background to make it faster, which is a good reminder that you should probably try a different file manager anyway
By Wes Fenlon published
News Other than the addition of tabs, Windows' file Explorer hasn't felt meaningfully improved in a long time.
Windows used to secretly use green screens to render videos, which is how you could trick MS Paint into becoming a video player
By Wes Fenlon published
News Video playback on old computers was a whole lot of smoke and mirrors.

We used to be a society (with a good Windows Task Manager icon)
By Wes Fenlon published
News? The latest Windows 11 Task Manager icon takes Microsoft's modern amorphous blob aesthetic to its (il)logical limit.

Apparently Windows 11 becoming 'agentic AI' means letting the bots rummage through some of your files
By Jacob Fox published
News Thanks, I guess.

I don't know how I missed this playable Windows 95-era 3D Maze screensaver, but it's making me feel like I'm tripping out, man
By Andy Edser published
News The endless walls of my perception, they're melting as we speak.

'Windows is evolving into an agentic OS' says Windows president in what I can only assume is a bid to make me swap to Linux
By James Bentley published
News Making the move is looking more and more tempting.

If your Windows 10 Extended Security Updates weren't working, they should now after Microsoft's latest patch
By Jacob Fox published
News Or you could dive into Windows 11.
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