In 2026, the company says it will focus on addressing Windows 11's pain points, such as system performance and reliability.

Smart App Control is stopping some Windows 11 built-in apps from working, and locking ROG Ally users out of device software.

A bug in Windows 11 is crashing Explorer.exe, which could make your desktop UI disappear, including the taskbar.

Microsoft is shifting focus to fixing Windows 11 performance and reliability after months of buggy updates, boot failures, and growing user frustration.

Microsoft has linked recent reports of Windows 11 boot failures after installing the January 2026 updates to previously failed attempts to install the December 2025 security update, which left systems ...

Engineers are now focusing on performance, reliability, and the overall Windows experience. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over ...

Sarasota is experiencing issues with excessive noise from car revving and drag racing. The author likens the lack of ...

The biggest problem in mortgage technology today isn’t rates, compliance, or even data. It’s the interface. For decades, we’ve accepted a basic idea as “just the way it is”: if you want to get ...

Shipping an update that fixes some bugs but creates new ones is raising serious questions about Microsoft's quality control, or lack thereof.

Positive input ventilation units are marketed as an easy solution to damp and mould. But if improperly installed, they can ...

Windows 11 KB5074109 causes a black screen on some PCs, including those with an Nvidia GPU, and also freezes Outlook if you use POP, which downloads emails from a server to a local device, among other ...

Microsoft has now admitted that the January security updates for Windows 11 23H2 can interfere with sleep mode and shutdown. Microsoft has now published this in the Windows Release Health notes.