Articles from December 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in December 2025
Windows 11 File Explorer Preload: Tiny Speed Boost, Big RAM Cost
Microsoft’s attempt to make File Explorer feel “instant” by preloading it on startup has exposed a simple truth: warming a window in memory is not the same as fixing the underlying architecture that m
SSD First Desktops: Practical Value PCs for Everyday Productivity
The market for desktop PCs still delivers exceptional value for multitasking and long-term productivity, and a recent Observer Voice roundup (carried in the same roundup family as a Hindustan Times li
Copilot on Windows 11: The Agentic OS Privacy and UX Debate
Mustafa Suleyman’s quip about being “mindblown” that people call modern AI “underwhelming” landed in the middle of a much larger and nastier conversation: Microsoft is aggressively folding Copilot and
Windows 11 October 2025 KB5066835 Gaming Regression and NVIDIA Hotfix 581.94
The October Windows 11 cumulative update shipped as KB5066835 created a rare but serious cross‑vendor performance regression in some modern games—most visibly in Assassin’s Creed: Shadows—where frame
Windows 11 Adoption Standoff: Security, AI Push, and Migration Friction
Microsoft’s long march from Windows 10 to Windows 11 has stalled unevenly — then sprinted, then sputtered again — exposing a brittle choreography between security-first engineering, aggressive AI and