Tourniquet 💻

@AmyLeeEVCrave And yet it has been ages since they played it live 😔

Evanescence’s “Tourniquet” has reached 95 MILLION streams on Spotify. This is Evanescence’s 7th song to reach the mark, their most streamed non-single & the closest song to the 100M mark.

If you too have an historical artifact in the form of the Texas Instrument OMAP Windows RT Tablet (codenamed Vegas2) and are interested in loading an OS, I wrote how I proceeded, as its fairly non trivial. Setting up Texas Instrument's Vegas2 Tablet gus33000.me/blog2/vegas2se…

Microsoft has announced plans to address pain points on Windows 11 and fix up the biggest issues that users currently have with it. But if history is anything to go by, this effort will be futile. @zacbowden says that Microsoft's previous versions of "bad" Windows releases have only been truly fixable in one way: Abandonment. Windows Vista and Windows 8 are prime examples, both fixed with subsequent releases, but never gaining the same level of notoriety that their predecessors had. With that in mind, would it make more sense to pivot to Windows 12 and wipe the slate clean? Let's break down the pros and cons windowscentral.com/microsoft/wind…

Microsoft is officially killing its Outlook Lite app next month techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/mic…

The Verge: Xbox chief Asha Sharma says “Game Pass has become too expensive for players” in an internal memo to employees “Short term, Game Pass has become too expensive for players, so we need a better value equation. Long term, we will evolve Game Pass into a more flexible system which will take time to test and learn around.” theverge.com/tech/911182/mi…

🚀 *new feature alert* New #Windows11 devices now give you the option to immediately skip updates during device setup - giving you the option of landing on the desktop faster or getting updates right away to land fully setup and ready to go. #UpdateControl #WindowsUpdate

RAMageddon has come for Microsoft’s Surface Pro and Surface Laptop. The Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 are now $500 more expensive than their original starting price theverge.com/tech/911322/mi…

It's happening🔥 Cleanpilot; a modern CCleaner alternative built in C# / WinUI 3, fully powered by winapp2.ini Public preview is live 👇 github.com/builtbybel/Cle… #WindowsDev #WinUI3 #Windows11 #Cleanpilot

Ouch. Microsoft just raised prices of all its Surface PCs by a A LOT. The Surface Pro 12-inch, which launched last year at $799, now starts at $1,049 for the same config. Surface Laptop 7 and Pro 11, which launched in 2024 for $999, now starts at $1,499. Even the midrange Surface Laptop 13-inch, which many said is the closest thing Microsoft has to a MacBook Neo competitor, is now $1,199, which is $100 more expensive than a MacBook Air M5 and $200 more than the flagship Laptop 7 was in 2024. Of course, this is all due to the current RAM/component crisis. But man, this is tough to swallow. And this pricing is likely a good indication as to what the next-gen devices will cost, too. windowscentral.com/hardware/surfa…

@Thomstarr @charmed_og Same here, those trailers were iconic. I remember hearing rumors that Jennifer love Hewitt was replacing shannen, which at the time I couldn't believe at all.

@charmed_og I watched this trailer so many times I actually know every word spoken lol.

So was this trailer the first time people found out that Prue wasn't coming back? 🕯🤍

Foundry Local is now generally available. Whether you're building a desktop assistant or an offline-capable edge application, Foundry Local gives you production-grade AI that runs entirely on your device. 🖥️ Learn more: msft.it/6014Qfdoj

If you have a shiny new @Snapdragon X2 Elite device you may want to check for Snapdragon Control Panel updates: Version 2026.1.1.0 Fixed an issue that could cause incorrect graphics drivers to be downloaded for Snapdragon X2 softwarecenter.qualcomm.com/catalog/item/S…

BREAKING: Microsoft is overhauling its Windows 11 Insider Program with new Experimental and Beta Channels that give users more control over the features that they want to test! It's introducing feature flag control for Insiders in the Experimental channels, which will let you toggle on features that are documented in the changelogs without having to wait for the A/B gods to bless you first. Additionally, it's completely removing controlled feature rollouts from the Beta Channel, meaning if a feature is documented in the changelog for a build, you WILL get that feature when you install it. A huge change that will make testing new features much easier! windowscentral.com/microsoft/wind…

Rare Achievement Unlocked: One Giant Leap Welcome home, Artemis II crew!

🎮 We’re hiring! 🎮 Unser Xbox‑Comms‑Team sucht aktuell Verstärkung im Bereich PR für die DACH‑Region sowie CEE. 🥳 Alle Details hier 👉aka.ms/CommsXboxDACH

The channels are changing again.

More details on the Windows Insider Program improvements from @alecoot. We are going to publish more posts like this from our product leaders based on your feedback. blogs.windows.com/windows-inside…

The category is: iconic space quotes I use daily.

And we are now 2 years later, and guess what? The @Microsoft issue is still not solved… Seeing the mess around Veracrypt, @WireGuardVPN and others lately, we feel their pain…

Really happy to see these performance improvements to storage settings in Dev, went from taking 9 seconds to load the page for a 150 GB volume in .8155 to < 1 second in .8170 🎉