Category: Software

Microsoft recently announced plans to modify the sign-in process for user accounts, intending to eliminate the "Stay signed in?" prompt. Under the proposed changes, users would remain automatically signed into their accounts unless they manually logged out or used private browsing mode. These updates were initially scheduled to roll out in February 2025.

Canonical has introduced an updated distro for the Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distribution, making it available in a newest tar-based format. This change simplifies the installation, management, and configuration of Ubuntu instances on WSL, offering a number of benefits for developers and system administrators.

Microsoft PowerToys continues to evolve as a powerful toolkit for Windows users, with upcoming updates set to significantly enhance its functionality. Its Advanced Paste feature is receiving a major upgrade. In the near future, it will get some cool media transcoding capabilities, making it much more versatile for everyday tasks.

A few days ago Microsoft released PowerToys 0.88. The first update of this year includes a new ZoomIt tool, but deprecates the Video Conference Mute. Besides, you'll find many improvements and fixes.

Windows 11 includes a new app called "Dev Home", which a dashboard for developers. It was announced just two years ago, but Microsoft is already shutting down it in May 2025.

Users who prefer Windows 10 over Windows 11 will lose access to Microsoft 365 apps. Microsoft will terminate support for them in less than a year. This follows the support scenario for Windows 10, which also reached the end-of-support date in October 2025.

The VideoLAN project has announced that its VLC media player has reached a milestone of six billion downloads. Data collected by the statistics system since February 2005 shows that approximately 4.8 billion downloads are for the Windows version, 380 million for macOS, and 6.8 million for the source code archive.

Google, in partnership with the Linux Foundation, has launched an initiative to “fund open source development and improvement projects” in the Chromium ecosystem. The foundation, called Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers, is positioned as a “neutral” space for Chromium projects to support.

Microsoft appears to have implemented a very interesting, but controversial change that mimics the Google.com interface when attempting to search through Bing.com. This move could be seen as a strategy to keep users away from Google, which has long been synonymous with search engines and finding information on the Internet.

Microsoft has announced a major update to the Microsoft 365 app and Copilot user experience, coming in January 2025. This information was shared via the Microsoft 365 Message Center.