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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Expert maps out more than 80 different Microsoft Copilot products, but there may be more than 100 — ‘What happens when you name everything Copilot,’ an AI consultant mapped out the myriad products

An AI aficionado has put together a chart of all the Copilot products they could find. At the latest count there are 80.
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Linux devs start removing support for 37-year-old Intel 486 CPU — head honcho Linus Torvalds says ‘zero real reason’ to continue support

Linux kernel developers appear to have started to dismantle support for the legendary Intel 486 CPU.

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I’ve spent a month with the Rokid AI Glasses Style: they’re excellent smart glasses let down by an ugly design

The Rokid AI Glasses Style should be nothing but a slam dunk, but their design and price are a let down.

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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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‘Side effects may include curiosity’: Google’s $3 ChromeOS Flex kit aims to save your old Windows 10 laptop from the scrapheap

Google’s kit aims to breathe new life into old hardware, and that could be Macs as well as Windows 10 PCs.

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Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers, calls on Houston to fix Microsoft anomaly — puzzled caller describes ‘two Outlooks, and neither one of those are working’

‘Two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working,’ complains Artemis II astronaut.

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