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Site provides instructions to get up to $175 back for your pre-installed Windows 11 license
By Mark Tyson Last updated
The Refund4Freedom site was put together by the Italian Linux Society and the Free Software Foundation Europe to help address the unfairness of unwanted OS bundling.

Windows veteran's vibe-coded Task Manager now also runs on Mac and Linux
By Mark Tyson Published
Legendary Windows developer Dave Plummer has been busy finessing his revamped Task Manager, now dubbed TMOG.

Microsoft blames RGB peripherals for crashing Windows 11
By Hassam Nasir Published
The software interferes with core system files.

China reportedly orders state agencies to uninstall its government-only edition of Windows 10
By Luke James Published
China's Ministry of State Security has told some state-linked organizations to remove a customized version of Windows 10 from their machines.

Devs blame Windows for VLC media player bug that causes 33-second delay when playing MP3 files
By Kunal Khullar Published
VLC developers say a Windows 11 issue involving Microsoft Defender can interfere with the media player's plugin cache and cause unusually long playback delays.

Windows 11's built-in weather app, which is a web wrapper, hogs more than 1GB of RAM while idling
By Hassam Nasir Published
5x more memory consumption than macOS.

VPN provider Windscribe has built a script to block Microsoft's persistent GDID tracking on Windows
By Hassam Nasir Published
But there's a (small) downside.

Microsoft quietly purges 32GB of RAM recommendations from its website
By Jowi Morales Published
Microsoft wants you to forget that it ever suggested 32GB of RAM, as its base-model laptops only come with 8GB of RAM.
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