XDA Developers on MSN

Smart App Control in Windows 11 is finally worth turning on

Microsoft's Smart App Control used to be pointless, but it's about to become a lot more usable. Here's what's changing.
Morning Overview on MSN

Windows 11 is about to drop a massive wave of new features

Microsoft is pushing a large batch of new features to Windows 11 users through its February 2026 Patch Tuesday releases, ...
Neowin

Every Windows feature Microsoft removed or deprecated in 2025Every Windows feature Microsoft removed or deprecated in 2025Every Windows feature Microsoft removed or deprecated ...

A lot happened to Windows in 2025. Microsoft added plenty of new features, but also removed some. Here is everything that the company removed or deprecated. A lot of different things happened to ...
Digital Trends

Windows 11 26H1 pulls in features from 25H2, but you won’t get it just yet

Microsoft is testing Windows 11 26H1 with the Insider Preview Build 28000, which brings many of the useful features we’ve seen in the Dev, Beta, and stable versions of previous builds. Even though the ...
Ars Technica

AI-powered features begin creeping deeper into the bedrock of Windows 11

Like virtually every major Windows announcement in the last three years, the spate of features that Microsoft announced for the operating system today all revolve around generative AI. In particular, ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 11 Build 26220.7051 released with “Ask Copilot” feature

Windows 11 Build 26220.7051 is now rolling out to testers in the Insider Program, and there are at least three new features, including Ask Copilot on the taskbar. Up until now, you could access ...