Visual Studio 2022, the next version of Microsoft's IDE, is coming in less than a month. Microsoft announced the upcoming release on the devblogs.microsoft.com website. Alongside revealing the launch date of Visual Studio 2022, Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2022 Release Candidate (RC) and Preview 5.
Chrome for Android allows enabling dark theme per website
You can now enable the dark theme on specific websites in Google Chrome. There is a new "Dark Theme" option in the main menu of the browser.
Task Manager in Windows 11 now shows in detail how Edge uses resources
In a post on the official Windows Blogs website, Microsoft announced major changes in how the Edge browser reports its resource usage in Task Manager. Those improvements will help users better understand the browser's behavior and quickly detect tabs that consume too much RAM or CPU. No more closing pages blindly to spot the problematic component.
Google starts testing RSS support in Chrome on Android along with new widgets
The Search giant has started testing a couple of new features for the Android version of their Chrome browser. One of the is the "Follow" feature, which is literally a simplified user interface for the good old RSS. It allows you to "follow" frequently visited websites, bringing their latest updates right to the start page. Another change is a set of new widgets for the Android Home screen.
The first cumulative update for Windows 11 cripples performance on AMD systems even more
AMD recently warned its users about potential performance downgrades after updating supported hardware from Windows 10 to Windows 11. According to the official data, on Windows 11, AMD systems experience significantly increased L3 cache delays, which cause performance dips in games and memory-sensitive applications up to 15%. AMD said a fix is coming this month, but it is not part of the first cumulative updates for Windows 11 that went out yesterday. In fact, those updates made things even worse, turning the situation from bad to ugly.
Microsoft has updated PowerToys to version 0.47.1
Microsoft today released a new version of PowerToys. Version 0.47.1 is a minor maintenance update which comes with a few bugfixes.
Windows 11 Administrative Templates Group Policy XLSX Spreadsheet
You can now download Windows 11 administrative templates and Group Policy XLSX Spreadsheet. Both will allow you to quickly find what is new in Group Policies on the latest Windows 11 release, and customize the OS.
Collections in Microsoft Edge now support various citations
After killing Reading List in the Edge Legacy (Microsoft stopped supporting the browser in March 2021), Microsoft puts a lot of effort into improving the Collections feature. Collections allow you to store various web pages, notes, images, pins from Pinterest, and other content in customizable sets, which you can also export to other apps.
Microsoft releases cumulative updates for Windows 11 and 10
Today, Microsoft released a number of patches for supported Windows 10 version. The newest Windows 11 OS has also received its first cumulative update with a fix. Here are the changes.
Chrome now can generate QR-codes for selected links
Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome have a built-in QR code generator that lets you share a page with a single click using a QR code. Google is working on improving that feature by allowing users to generate QR codes for any link on a web page.
