Altman called idle PC RAM “quite terrible” on the Cheeky Pint podcast, then said he wants you to have “so much ram.” Microsoft’s hybrid intelligence needs PCs with up to 128GB of unified memory to run models like MAI-Code-1.1-Flash locally, just as AI data centers push DRAM prices higher.

Discord is finally getting rid of Electron! Co-founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy has confirmed that Discord is rebuilding its client in Rust, and it'll be using GPUI to handle the desktop interface. Discord also shared...

Microsoft Paint apparently has a security flaw, and while there's a patch, nobody is actually seeing it when they look for one in the Store.

Classic Outlook's search now falls back to your PC when the cloud is slow, and New Outlook still doesn't have that yet because it's a web app.

After a restart with no apps installed, Windows 11 used 2.4GB on a 4GB VM and 3.7GB on a 16GB VM. Microsoft’s documentation explains why Windows keeps more pages in RAM when memory is abundant, what Available and Cached mean, and when high RAM usage turns into a problem. Compressed memory read 0MB on all three.

Weeks after September's update broke File History, Remote Desktop and File Explorer, Microsoft's 25H2 status page tells users to move to 26H2. We break down every fix from KB5129195 to KB5127936, the USB audio bug Microsoft hasn't fixed, and why skipping 26H2 won't help.

Microsoft has declared that you can "do more with 8GB ," and this time, these are not just words, as the changes are already available. If you use Windows 11 26H2 or newer, Microsoft...

Windows boss Pavan Davuluri says 8GB is enough for everyday work, backed by new memory optimizations. We trace Microsoft's shifting RAM advice from Copilot+ PCs and 32GB gaming guides to today's $429 Lenovo deal at Walmart, and why a $949.99 Surface now gets 8GB where it once got 16GB.

Microsoft has shared the test conditions behind every 8GB RAM claim, from a 900MB cut in memory growth to Widgets loading on demand. We put them next to our own 26H2 test, where an 8GB laptop's RAM use after a restart fell from 5GB to 3.3GB, and explain how to get build 26300.9818.

Microsoft is now hoping Windows 11 26H2 could be a turning point for Windows 10 holdouts, as it makes PCs faster.

March Rogers confirmed on X that Optimize Drives is "on our list" after a user asked for WinUI 3 or a move into Settings. We explain what the decades-old tool still does for HDDs and SSDs, and where it fits in Microsoft's ongoing WinUI 3 and Control Panel cleanup in Windows 11.

Microsoft first asked Nintendo to be acquired, then offered to build its consoles in January 2000. Both failed, and Square and Midway said no too. Microsoft bought Bungie instead, and Halo made the Xbox. Here's how Nintendo and XBOX ended up on very different paths 25 years later.

Baca explains why an unlock step could add friction and interfere with taskbar icons and the system tray, reveals Windows 10 saw a significant volume of accidental taskbar moves, and says nothing is beyond reconsideration, just as the movable taskbar itself returned in 2026.

Microsoft confirmed "PC-to-PC Migration is no longer available" just a year after launching it. We compare what the local Wi-Fi transfer tool moved (any folder, 118GB in Microsoft's own demo) with Windows Backup's five folders and 5GB of free OneDrive storage.

A year after Meta killed the native app, WhatsApp's WebView2 wrapper still lags. I tested WhatsApp Web, the Edge-installed web app (579.6MB hiding behind a 2.5MB entry), Smart Connect streaming at 83.5MB and Telegram at 340.1MB, and asked why Meta can't build a native app.