Asus’ lightweight 16-inch laptop is a formidable MacBook Air alternative
 Asus’ lightweight 16-inch laptop is a formidable MacBook Air alternative

I already put Asus’ new Zenbook A16 through the wringer when I brought a pre-production unit with me to CES. I loved it for its ample power in an impressively light 16-inch chassis. It’s speedy enough for part-time content creation, it’s got lengthy battery life, and its large OLED screen is crisp and vivid. Now, […]

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Microsoft is ‘working hard on migrating all of Windows to modern UX’, and jazzing up Windows 11’s design — but can it make good on all its recent promises?

A Microsoft exec is promising work on the design front to ‘help Windows 11 feel more polished and coherent’.

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Did Microsoft not hear about the RAM crisis? Windows 11’s new Copilot app is quite the memory hog

Microsoft promised to hone Windows 11’s RAM usage — but confusingly the new Copilot app is a memory hog.

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Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older Windows 11 OS versions — ‘intelligent’ update system uses machine learning to determine when a device is ready

Windows 11 24H2 systems are being upgraded to 25H2 automatically, as Microsoft aims to streamline updates before support ends.
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‘Every Microsoft engineer got a stopwatch,’ says Windows veteran reminiscing about company’s past focus on speed — asserts that ‘everything’ was timed to ensure acceptable performance in the 1980s

A former president of Microsoft’s Windows Division has been reminiscing about the lean and efficient coding regime at Microsoft in the 1980s.
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Enthusiast installs Win 3.1X on bare metal Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti system using floppy disk drive, OS from 1992 running on 2025 hardware — Asus motherboard’s ‘classic BIOS’ functionality was instrumental to the feat

A retro computing connoisseur has bare-metal installed and booted Microsoft Windows 3.1X on a Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti PC system.
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Windows 11 is about to serve haptic feedback for a whole bunch of tasks

Windows 11 is adding haptic feedback for actions like snapping and resizing windows, bringing tactile responses to compatible trackpads and input devices.

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‘I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one is working’: Artemis II astronauts have the most relatable complaint

Artemis II crew reports Outlook software bug on one of the Orion capsule’s PCDs (personal computer devices).

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Microsoft deploys yet another emergency patch for Windows 11 — but at least the fix for the broken March update arrived quickly

Couldn’t install the latest Windows 11 update? You should be good to go now as Microsoft has rushed out a fix.

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Microsoft issues emergency update for Windows 11 — fixes broken March preview update rollout from last week

The latest Windows 11 emergency update tackles widespread install errors and replaces the problematic KB5079391 rollout.
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