Microsoft has responded to a wave of viral posts claiming that Windows 11 suffers from poor performance, with a senior company executive pushing back against the accusations. The executive said the claims don’t accurately represent the current state of Windows 11 and pointed to the steady improvements Microsoft has been making over the past few […]

Searching for files on Windows has often felt like a hit-or-miss experience. You download a document or edit a photo in a custom folder, try searching for it a few hours later, and Windows Search returns empty results. Historically, this happened because Windows only indexed specific default directories—like Documents, Pictures, and Desktop—unless you manually configured […]

Microsoft is accelerating its efforts to modernize legacy elements of the Windows shell. In a progress report on Windows quality commitments, Pavan Davuluri, Corporate Vice President of Windows and Devices, officially confirmed that the classic AutoPlay dialog and File/Folder Properties dialogs will soon receive modern WinUI 3 updates in upcoming Windows Insider Preview Experimental builds. […]

Microsoft is taking direct action to solve one of Windows 11’s biggest pain points: high memory usage on everyday computers. In an official update on Windows quality commitments, Pavan Davuluri, CVP of Windows & Devices, announced an initiative aimed at lowering the operating system’s memory footprint—specifically targeting PCs with 8GB of RAM and above. If […]