Worried about the RAM crisis? Microsoft isn’t, if Windows 11’s Weather app is anything to go by.
MSN Weather acts as the native weather app for Windows 11 and all it does it run a bunch of Chromium subprocesses in the background to retrieve the forecast data. This causes it to use 5x more memory than the macOS weather app. And, oh, you also get to enjoy ads!
Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That’s what made the MacBook Neo so disruptive: It offered great build quality and good-enough performance starting at $599. Windows laptops couldn’t touch it. Even though it’s gone up to $699, it’s still […]
Microsoft needs to sort out Windows Update — we don’t want random OneDrive apps shoved onto our PCs without asking.
32GB is the ‘no-worries zone’? Not anymore as Microsoft backtracks on past RAM recommendations, while Apple’s seemingly having troubles of its own.
You can run the deGDID script on your computer to delete cached GDID keys and prevent Microsoft’s servers from minting new ones in the background. The firewall you put up with this script will break certain Microsoft services and features, however, but you can always reverse it.
Windows 11 process sparks controversy and user accusations of ‘spying,’ which are false — but still point to a wider issue around privacy for Microsoft.
Apple is working on a feature that will allow users in the European Union to copy content on their iPhone and paste it onto their Windows PC (or vice versa), as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The move comes in response to an interoperability request from Microsoft that asks Apple to open up its Universal Clipboard […]
‘There needs to be a mechanism to prevent this from happening’: Microsoft vows to make Windows 11 run better on 8GB, but users complain something else needs fixing — rogue software installs.