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Hardware Microsoft celebrates 10 years of DirectX 12: A decade of updates to the low-level graphics API but it's still not the master of all things rendering Windows Windows 3.1 included a red and ...

In Windows, audio routing feels like an afterthought. To change your audio output, you must click the tiny sound output icon ...

The wait is finally over. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new Insider Preview build is out for Windows 11 Dev Channel members.

Microsoft released a batch of significant updates to Windows 11 earlier this week, adding tabs to the Notepad app, integrating the AI-powered “new Bing” into the taskbar’s search box, and previewing ...

Microsoft is testing a new and modern-looking Windows 11 volume mixer accessible via the taskbar Quick Settings panel that helps adjust the volume on a per-app basis and switch between audio devices.

In the early days of Windows, users had limited options when it came down to controlling sound. Such problems are no longer the case with Windows 11/10 because we have several tools at our disposal.

You have multiple sources of audio running at any given moment on your PC, but no convenient way to manage them all. Yes, Windows has plenty of advanced audio settings, and the volume mixer is there, ...

It looks like Windows is getting an easier way to manage all of those audio sources. In a blog post, the company announced that it is rolling out the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25309 to ...

Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22533 to the Dev Channel. In it, Microsoft has announced a new call experience for the Your Phone app as well as "includes a good set of changes ...