Windows 11's built-in Weather app — the one sitting in your taskbar right now — is not a weather app. It is a full Chromium browser instance masquerading as one, and independent testing published ...

I wanted an app that seemed easy: the temperature and forecast displayed on a widget on my desktop. Instead, Windows 11 gave me a "widget" with ads and entirely too much extra stuff. Most people ...

Windows 11's own Weather app apparently burns through more than 1GB of RAM just to show a forecast, and it still shows ads on top. VIEW GALLERY - 6 A stylized graphic pairs the Weather app's forecast ...

Windows 11's built-in weather app has been found to use well over 1GB of RAM in some tests. That's roughly 5 times the memory required by the macOS weather app, which uses about 246.7MB. Windows ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

The Windows 11 Weather app is facing criticism for high RAM usage and intrusive ads. Discover how Microsoft plans to optimize its native applications.

Microsoft is fighting Windows 11’s web app slop by making native WinUI apps much easier to build, as changes begin rolling ...