Microsoft has been on a drive to clean up Windows 11 by removing legacy features and components for some time now. The latest example of this is the companyâs decision to remove Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) from the operating system. To the casual observer, this is something that has already been consigned to the history books as it was not included in a standard installation of Windows 11. However, the latest move sees Microsoft killing off the ability to add it as an optional Feature on Demand. The loss of WindowsâŚ
The Hot Take: Firefox is my daily driver for sure.
Microsoft Edge will soon drop support for Manifest Version 2 (MV2), which means uBlock Origin will stop working in the browser. But Windows 11 users still have some browsing options that will support uBlock Origin and other MV2 extensions.The Firefox account on X shared a simple message in response to an article about Edge ending support for certain extensions: "Firefox support for uBlock Origin is not going anywhere."Brave shared a longer message, which emphasized that "Brave will keep supporting uBlock Origin" and that Brave hosts uBlockâŚ
Microsoft is backing down on OneDrive Photos, and youâll soon be able to remove it without also removing the OneDrive sync client. That means you wonât have to risk breaking synced files, folders, or shortcuts on Windows 11 if you donât want OneDrive Photos but still use the OneDrive sync client that you may have set up when you got your PC.
On or around August 1, Microsoft quietly added OneDrive Photos to thousands of PCs running Windows 11. OneDrive Photos itself is harmless, but most users dislike the idea of apps getting installed whenâŚ
The Hot Take: Need to get those private details of everyone's life....
Microsoft told Windows Latest that it accidentally shipped the AI-powered OneDrive Photos app on Windows 11 more broadly than it should have, which explains why enterprise PCs where the app doesnât even work now have to deal with it.
Iâm told that Microsoft is going to âfix it,â which possibly suggests that the app will be rolled back, but I think itâll stay on most PCs. If you havenât seen the app yet, hereâs what it looks like out of the box (yes, it has access to all your folders by default):
âOneDrive Photosâ isnât exactly newâŚ
Proxmox Server Solutions, the company behind the open source Proxmox virtualization stack, has announced a port of its flagship Virtual Environment to the Arm CPU architecture â and a collaboration with Nvidia and Supermicro that made it happen. The outfitâs announcement states that it can now run on 64-bit ARM (arm64/aarch64), but the only fully supported platforms are Nvidiaâs Grace Hopper and Vera. Proxmox will also provide âbest-effort supportâ for other UEFI-based ARMv9-A or newer hardware, and says ARMv8-A âgenerally works as wellâ. IfâŚ
The Hot Take: Nice to see MS wanting stability over features.
I expect Windows 11 26H2 to ship in October 2026 as an enablement package. Based on past trends, itâll roll out sometime between the last week of September and the last week of October. Windows 11 25H2 shipped in the last week of September, but versions 24H2 and 23H2 were released in October of their respective years.
But is there anything new in this yearâs annual update? Iâd say nothing major in particular.
Windows 11 26H2 is the annual feature update for the operating system, but it doesnât come with anything exciting. If youâve readâŚ
The Hot Take: Sorry I prefer privacy on my own cloud. GTFOH.
As Windows Latest first reported, Microsoft is quietly installing âOneDrive Photosâ on PCs, and our tests show that itâs tied to the OneDrive sync client, which is already pre-installed on Windows. Initially, I assumed that only consumers would be getting the app, but it turns out that itâs being pushed to enterprise customers as well.
Windows Latest spoke to IT admins and found that Microsoft is forcing the OneDrive Photos app onto enterprise PCs, including those that use Microsoft Intune. Worse, OneDrive Photos works only with a personalâŚ
By ckasprzak | TkOut | August 6, 2026 | Linux, Software
The Hot Take: So Linux isn't creeping to take over windows. Just bots using it are, GOT IT.
StatCounter claims Linux has risen to 10.65% of the United States' web traffic, outstripping Chrome OS at 2.06%, macOS at 8.6%, and OpenBSD at below 1%. That's an interesting number, but the math doesn't add up if you assume the traffic is from human users alone.
As many of today's biggest companies claim, we're in the age of agentic AI,
Microsoft released Windows NT 4.0 to manufacturing partners on July 31, 1996. Codename Cairo marked an important milestone in the history of Microsoftâs original server OS and would far outlive Microsoftâs original plans as enthusiasts and administrators clung to it, as older readers will be aware. Headlining features of NT 4.0, which made it a winner, include the melding of the intuitive new Windows 95 UI into the fully 32-bit enterprise OS. It was also notable for being the last version of NT to support Alpha, MIPS, or PowerPC CPUâŚ
The Hot Take: Just deeper and deeper into our lives.... I dropped OneDrive because the "backup" nag screens. Thankfully I have Synology NAS with Drive client to replace it.
The year is 2026, and Iâm still amazed when I find a new entry in my Start menuâs All apps list for an app I donât remember installing. This time, itâs Microsoft again, and the product is OneDrive Photos, which appears to be yet another photo editor and viewer for Windows 11 that nobody asked for.
While searching for Microsoft Photos, a new app called âOneDrive Photosâ showed up in my results out of nowhere, and it appears to have arrived either via a Windows Update or an update for the OneDrive sync client on Windows.
For thoseâŚ