Microsoft’s new 26H2 Windows 11 update brings a number of new features, like improved search and a long-requested Start menu customization and ability to have a vertical taskbar. But his version also brings progress to another criticized area: It improves the performance and responsiveness of the system and works better on computers with a small amount of RAM (of which there will be more and more thanks to the AI craze). Read more “Windows 11 Is 20% Faster, Needs Less RAM Now, Microsoft Claims”
In December, Microsoft promised that Windows 11 would focus on performance, including in games, during 2026. One of the coming optimizations concerns disk encryption. Microsoft currently uses software algorithms for BitLocker disk encryption, which have certain performance limitations and can increase laptop power consumption. This year, Windows will gain more efficient hardware accelerated encryption—but there is a complication. Read more “Windows 11 gets hardware disk encryption on Intel Panther Lake”
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