Collaborate Disseminate
The Windows 11 Game Bar helps you manage your PC game experiences using a personalized on-screen overlay that appears over the games you play. Game Bar provides interfaces for capturing screenshots and video clips, interacting with your friends on Xbox… Continue reading Game Bar (24H2)
OK, I’m getting ahead of myself here. But it’s impossible not to look past 2024’s .NETpad modernization work. There’s more work to do. The biggest being the long-awaited–but also long-dreaded–tabbed user interface.
Tabs. It was always going to be tab… Continue reading .NETpad 2025: Looking Ahead, Feeling a Little Tabby (Premium)
What the heck is going on at Google?
It shouldn’t be this difficult. But then Android has always been a fast follower, a platform that arrived in the wake of Apple’s original iPhone announcement and has been tagging along ever since, like an annoying y… Continue reading Androids, Chromebooks, and Tablets, Oh My (Premium)
Recall is finally here in preview, at least for those silly enough to put a Snapdragon X-based Copilot+ PC in the Dev channel of the Windows Insider Program. I am that silly, of course, but I at least followed my own advice and created USB-based recove… Continue reading Recall Goes to the Theater (Premium)
Happy Friday! We’re back in the US and exhausted, but here’s a particularly lengthy installment of Ask Paul to kick off the weekend a bit early.
Pretty no bueno
j5 asks:
Hi Paul! Any updates on when your Paulism “pretty bueno” is going to be on your co… Continue reading Ask Paul: November 22 (Premium)
With .NET Conf 2024 and the release of .NET 9 behind us, I’ve finally had a chance to watch the relevant session videos from the show. And there is unexpectedly at least one other change to WPF’s support for Windows 11 theming, one that addresses a sho… Continue reading Modernizing .NETpad: WTF, WPF (Premium)
Quick: When you think about Windows, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? I bet it’s not security or resiliency. And yet, that’s the message coming out of Microsoft Ignite this week, that security is the firm’s top priority–left unsaid, that mea… Continue reading Resiliency (Premium)
With Copilot, Microsoft promises a “side-by-side” experience in which AI improves the work you’re doing in traditional apps and experiences. But wave two of the AI revolution adds not just automation but new agentic capabilities in which AI services–c… Continue reading Agentic (Premium)
We’ve been in Mexico City for almost seven weeks, our longest trip yet. I came here with two big items on my to-do list, both book-related: Get the Windows 11 Field Guide updated for Windows 11 version 24H2 and publish at least a preview of the new boo… Continue reading From the Editor’s Desk: Slog (Premium)
Windows 11 includes a full-disk encryption feature called Device encryption that protects the data on your system drive. Device encryption uses Microsoft BitLocker technologies, and it’s enabled automatically the first time you sign in to Windows 11 us… Continue reading Device Encryption (24H2)