ISSUE 23.08 • 2026-02-23 WINDOWS 11 By Martin Brinkmann After ten years in the making, Microsoft is finally attempting to finish the job by making Windows’ dark-mode feature truly system-wide. The “flashbang” era is officially ending — mostly. When Microsoft first dimmed the lights with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, nobody expected it to be […]

TAME YOUR TECH By Susan Bradley Did you get a new computer for Christmas? Are you now looking at it and wondering what to do first? Migrating from one device to another device is always fraught with issues you did not anticipate. But it’s also a time to review the processes you’ve employed in the […]

Stuff just keeps showing up in Windows with little or no warning, so I missed an interesting change. Microsoft added keyboard shortcuts for endash (Win+-) and emdash (Win+Shift+-). That may not be a big deal for you, but it is for me. Our senior copy editor, Roberta Scholz, is a strict grammarian. I, on the other […]

PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley I’m giving my approval for the installation of Windows 11 25H2. Even so, consider this an “if you want to” approval, not a warning to “do it now because 24H2 is dropping out of support.” We have until October 13, 2026, to install 25H2 because that’s when 24H2 officially falls […]