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Microsoft has confirmed that the KB5070311 preview update is triggering bright white flashes when launching the File Explorer in dark mode on Windows 11 systems. "After installing KB5070311, you might ...

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Preloading will help File Explorer launch more quickly on less powerful hardware. Preloading will help File Explorer launch more quickly on less powerful hardware. is a senior editor and author of ...

A major outage at internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare knocked parts of the internet offline, disrupting access to X, NJ Transit, ChatGPT and other major platforms ...

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Update #2 [Wed 29th Oct 2025, 9pm]: We're starting to see reports that the Xbox service is slowly returning to normal, and we can confirm that our full game libraries and the Microsoft Store are both ...

Microsoft has today announced that it is turning every Windows 11 PC into an AI PC, and at the center of those ambitions is the Copilot AI assistant. The company has announced that it is rolling out ...

Microsoft has released .NET Aspire 9.5, an update of the company’s framework for building distributed apps that previews support for .NET 10 file-based apps. An AI-based visualizer also is featured.