For years, web search via the Windows Start menu has been a prime example of Microsoft’s strategic clinging to its own ecosystem: Bing as a search engine, Edge as a browser – period, over, end of discussion. Anyone who switches their default browser to Chrome, Firefox or Opera will notice that it is cosmetic. As soon as the search bar [...]
While the developer community is already working on the new functions of preview version 1.12 of the Windows Package Manager, Microsoft is releasing an unspectacular but highly relevant maintenance update for the stable 1.11 line. The new version 1.11.510 does not bring any visible innovations, but concentrates on corrections in the machine room [...]
Microsoft has lifted the third major update block for Windows 11 24H2 in just two weeks, thereby removing another stumbling block on the way to widespread distribution of the current operating system. The latest unblocking affects systems with Intel Smart Sound Technology (Intel SST), whose audio drivers until recently provoked blue screens and [...]
With the August 2025 security update for Windows 10 and Windows 11, Microsoft has once again proven that well-intentioned does not automatically mean well done. The aim of the update was to close a dangerous security vulnerability (CVE-2025-50173) that allowed local attackers to escalate their rights to administrator level undetected via [...]
Microsoft has done it again, report our colleagues at Wccftech: A current security update for Windows 11 – namely KB5063878 – apparently causes critical failures in certain SSD models as soon as large amounts of data are written. Initial reports indicate that drives with Phison controllers are particularly affected. It is particularly [...]
From the user interface to user avoidance: Microsoft outlines the future of Windows with AI, voice control and a radical break with decades-old interaction paradigms. When Microsoft manager David Weston describes the future of Windows, it sounds like a mixture of science fiction, Silicon Valley mantra and strategic PR agenda. In a new video, the [...]
Steam statistics show: Linux is scratching the 3% mark in gaming – and there is more substance to this than just open source idealism What used to be considered a masochistic hobby for tech-savvy loners is gradually becoming a serious Windows alternative: gaming on Linux. The latest Steam survey brings it to light – 2.89 percent of all [...]
An obituary for a cult icon and a look behind the PR facade of an update that hides more than it explains. The older ones among us still remember: the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has been an integral part of the Windows experience for almost four decades – as reliable as coffee on the night shift or the Windows Updater, which always came [...]
With Agility SDK 1.717, Microsoft has not just implemented a few new functions – it has poured a foundation on which the next generation of real-time graphics will be built. In an era in which ray tracing is mutating from a prestige feature to a baseline technology, Redmond is focusing on efficiency, parallelism and intelligence in the [...]
Windows Update Orchestration Platform: Microsoft’s new one-size-fits-all approach to app updates It sounds almost too good to be true – and that should give you pause for thought: Microsoft is introducing a new “Windows Update Orchestration Platform”, which in future will update all apps via a single channel. Operating [...]
Huawei follows up. After smartphones, which have long since left Western markets, now comes the big desktop launch: HarmonyOS Next. It sounds like a promise of the future, but above all it brings a clean break with the past. This is because old devices are consistently locked out, as are apps that do not want to be in Huawei’s own App [...]
Microsoft has done it again: a new attempt to force users even more firmly into the Microsoft ecosystem has been introduced with the Windows 11 installation. Mandatory login with a Microsoft account was supposed to provide more security, but as always, there is a way around it. Because what Microsoft wants to sell as a “security [...]
Microsoft has apparently noticed that the Task Manager has previously guessed more than it measured when displaying CPU utilization. The latest Windows 11 update should finally change this. Instead of the previous calculation method, which sometimes spit out creative values, they now want to stick to common standards. This means that the [...]
Microsoft’s new AI feature “Memory” for Windows 11, which takes screenshots of activities, already caused an uproar when it was announced. Concerns were raised that questioned Microsoft’s promise of encryption and data protection. Now a security researcher has uncovered serious security gaps in the function and describes it [...]
With Windows 11, Microsoft has developed an operating system that offers a wide range of functions. However, it is unlikely that an average user will use all these functions at once. Some users even find certain functions superfluous. For these users, a slimmer version of the operating system called Tiny11 is available. Tiny11 not only reduces [...]
The most popular overclocking tool programmed by Alexey will now continue without MSI support. The reason for this is the ongoing war in Ukraine , resulting in licensing problems. Due to sanctions, companies like MSI are unable to fulfill their obligations under the contract signed with the developer. Alexey himself lives in Russia. The MSI [...]
Last week, Microsoft released a security patch for Windows 11, which, in addition to some annoying interventions in the system (e.g. network detection was deactivated without being asked), also caused a system with an active Microsoft account, which relies on the PIN for authentication in the start screen, to discard exactly this PIN when changing [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
No, I’m not an emotionless person and so I can’t sleep peacefully because of a nasty detail in Windows 11, which is not only a senseless hassle for the user by an unworldly design hipster, but which really disturbs the workflow. Meant is the trimmed taskbar without the possibility to really customize it to the requirements. Small icons [...]
