Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM

Memory anxiety. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Last year, Microsoft’s 13-inch Surface Laptop quickly became one of my favorite thin-and-light Windows notebooks. At $900, it was…

Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

Right on the heels of Microsoft releasing a record number of security patches, a researcher has published exploit code that can enable low-privilege Windows accounts to make sensitive changes to…

Windows 11’s big patch Tuesday allows you to hold off on updates for longer

Microsoft just released a long list of improvements for Windows 11 as part of its bigger patch Tuesdays, and that includes the ability to pause updates indefinitely, as reported earlier…

Microsoft tests Windows Search without all the ads and fluff

Microsoft is testing a cleaner version of the Windows 11 search menu that strips it of recommended content and ads. In a blog post on Monday, Microsoft announced that it’s…

Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk

A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows machines to write files large enough to completely consume available disk…

Microsoft fixes storage-hogging Windows 11 folder

Microsoft is addressing a Windows 11 bug that caused a folder to take up several gigabytes of storage space. As spotted earlier by Windows Latest, Microsoft included the patch in…