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“However, we understand our work is not yet complete, and we remain committed to restoring every impacted system.,” CEO George Kurtz continued in his post on LinkedIn.

Look, I know unsightly stickers on Windows laptops have been with us since long ago when “Intel Inside” was something people actually wanted boast about. But come on, HP.

I recently wrote about using Windows XP on my iPad Pro and Verge commenter cindrBear helpfully pointed out that in 2001, Microsoft announced Tablet PC.

In a tweet and blog post, George Kurtz says:

The Verge senior editor Tom Warren can explain. Follow our story stream for all of the latest updates about this situation causing Blue Screen of Death errors on computers worldwide.

At least, according to the FCC.

I love a scheduled social media post right in the middle of a major PC outage. IT admins certainly aren’t enjoying the CrowdStrike 2024 PC era.

A change included in a new Windows beta would sort apps by labels like “Music” and “Entertainment,” according to posts on X spotted by XDA Developers. (Windows 8.1 had a similar option.)

In the old days, running Disk Defragmenter in Windows took forever but was a welcome, meditative reminder that you can’t control everything.

Opera has asked the EU General Court to annul the European Commission’s decision not to designate Microsoft Edge as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act. Opera argues that Microsoft still makes it difficult to use an alternative browser and keeps treating its own browser “in a preferential way.” Microsoft is certainly using every trick in the book to keep Windows users on Edge.

Brad Silverberg, former senior VP of Windows, kept hold of the first copy of Windows 95 that came off the production line. Microsoft employees then held a Release to Manufacturing (RTM) party with bottles of Dom Pérignon for drinking and “cheap champagne for spraying.” Microsoft’s RTM parties were infamous throughout the ‘90s and ‘00s, especially the iPhone funeral one for the Windows Phone 7 RTM.

The first wave of Copilot Plus PCs has landed, and iFixit has already posted a Surface Pro and Surface Laptop teardown.

Microsoft has started testing a new way to import photos on Windows 11 PCs. It should make it easier to grab photos from your devices, and it’s part of several new features coming to the photos app — including a dynamic zoom slider, easier access to slideshows, and improved load times.

Microsoft is launching its Copilot Plus PCs today, with Qualcomm-powered chips inside. If you’re wondering where our reviews are, Microsoft and most of its OEM partners haven’t seeded devices ahead of today’s launch because of Microsoft’s Recall... recall. I have started testing a Surface Laptop today, and we’ll have a full review of this new Windows on Arm hardware as soon as possible.

Phone Link already lets you share files from PC to certain Android phones — a new Windows Insider Preview now adds your phone directly to the Windows Share menu, too. Also, you can quickly summon jump lists by right-clicking an app pinned to the Start Menu. More here.

Slack is getting ready for Windows on Arm, just days before Microsoft launches its Copilot Plus PCs on June 18th with Arm-powered chips from Qualcomm. A new beta version of the ARM64 version of Slack is available today, and Slack says it will appear in the Microsoft Store soon, too. It’s another important app compatibility addition for Windows on Arm.

Microsoft says it is “temporarily pausing the rollout” of its latest Windows 11 24H2 update. The software giant released this update to Release Preview testers last month, and now it’s being pulled for unspecified reasons. “We will resume the rollout in the coming weeks,” says Microsoft. We’ve reached out to the company to comment on why it has pulled Windows 11 24H2.