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Windows Latest has found that Windows 11’s new taskbar Search can open apps from your Android phone. When I typed Bluesky into Search on my Surface Laptop, it showed the app installed on my Samsung phone as a “Mobile App” result, and clicking Open launched Bluesky on the phone and mirrored it to my PC through Phone Link!

Microsoft has since confirmed that Search can ca...


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Microsoft is finally giving WinUI, Windows 11’s native framework for modern apps, a data table, charts, and pen inking, which are three basics needed by finance tools, admin panels, and note-taking apps. Without them, building on the web might’ve been the easier route. TableView and Chart came to Windows App SDK 2.5.4 Experimental on September 29 along with reworked inking co...


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Windows 11 26H2 is a tiny enablement package if your PC is already on Windows 11 24H2 or 25H2, but if you’re still on 23H2, you need a full feature update of around 6.5GB. I downloaded the official Windows 11 26H2 enablement package, KB5121794, and the whole file is just 173KB, or 177,535 bytes.

I know it sounds crazy that the 2026 annual Windows feature update is just...


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You don’t have to pay Adobe if you just want to edit, extract, merge, or organize PDFs on Windows 11, as Microsoft Edge is about to get one of its biggest updates.

Microsoft Edge is getting a built-in PDF merger alongside other new capabilities in January 2027, so you may no longer need to browse random websites to merge PDFs or buy Adobe Acrobat. Windows Latest unders...


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Windows 11’s Task Manager and taskbar can stop responding right when you need them to kill a runaway app. Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen says running them at high priority wouldn’t fix it, because a high-priority thread can still get stuck as it waits for a resource that another, slower thread is holding.

I have certainly experienced this when a game,...


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