https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VZJO-hOT4c : 6 machines identiques. 6 versions de Windows comparées.
Vous vous doutez du résultat ? Oui Windows 11 est une catastrophe.
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Valve has added the NTSYNC kernel driver to the SteamOS 3.7.20 beta, laying the groundwork for improved Windows game synchronization performance via Wine and Proton. Phoronix reports: For gearing up for that future Proton NTSYNC support, SteamOS 3.7.20 enables the NTSYNC kernel driver and loads the module by default. Most Linux distributions are at least already building the NTSYNC kernel module though there's been different efforts on how to handle ensuring it's loaded when needed. The presence of the NTSYC kernel driver is the main highlight of the SteamOS 3.7.20 beta now available for testing.

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Des nouvelles de cette saloperie de Windows 11 : Non seulement Microsoft utilise des dark patterns pour inciter les utilisateurs à autoriser Microsoft à récupérer vos fichiers privés, mais en prime si vous supprimez vos fichiers de OneDrive, cela les supprime localement.
C'est en gros le fonctionnement d'un ransomeware: Il utilise de l'ingénierie sociale pour récupérer vos fichiers, et vous les fait perdre si vous essayez de vous échapper du système.
Franchement, si vous le pouvez, virez Windows.
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Dans un article de blog publié le 5 janvier 2026, les chercheurs de l’entreprise de cybersécurité Securonix mettent en lumière une nouvelle campagne cybercriminelle visant en particulier les établissements hôteliers européens.​ Baptisée PHALT#BLYX, cette opération dissimule son piège derrière un faux écran bleu de la mort de Windows.

C’est la fin d’une option historique. Pour activer Windows ou Office, le passage par Internet et par un compte Microsoft devient inévitable. Une décision prise en toute discrétion par le géant des logiciels.

An anonymous reader shared this report from Neowin: Offline Windows activation has been possible to do using the phone. However, it looks like Microsoft has quietly killed off that method as users online have found that they are no longer able to activate the OS using it... [As documented by Windows user Ben Kleinberg on his YouTube channel], Now when trying to activate the OS by attempting to call the phone number for Microsoft Product Activation, an automated voice response says the following: "Support for product activation has moved online. For the fastest and most convenient way to activate your product, please visit our online product activation portal at aka.ms/aoh" If you are wondering, that link takes users to the Microsoft Product Activation Portal for online activation. Thus it appears that offline ways to activate Windows may no longer be available even though the official support documentation by the company may not reflect it yet.

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Il n'est plus possible d'activer Windows par téléphone.
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Windows 10's formal end-of-support arrived in October, and while the operating system is generally remembered as one of the "good" versions of Windows -- the most widely used since XP -- many of the annoyances people complain about in Windows 11 actually started during the Windows 10 era, ArsTechnica writes. Windows 10 earned its positive reputation primarily by not being Windows 8. It restored a version of the traditional Start menu, rolled out as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and 8 users, and ran on virtually all the same hardware as those older versions. Microsoft introduced the Windows Subsystem for Linux during this period and eventually rebuilt Edge on Chromium. The company seemed more willing to meet users where they were rather than forcing them to change their behavior. But Windows 10 also began collecting more information about how users interacted with the operating system, cluttered the lock screen with advertisements and news articles, and added third-party app icons to the Start menu without user consent. The mandatory Microsoft Account sign-in requirement -- one of Windows 11's most frequently complained-about features -- was a Windows 10 innovation, easier to circumvent at the time but clearly a step down the road Windows 11 is currently traveling. To be sure, Windows 11 has made things worse by stacking new irritants on top of old ones. The Microsoft Account requirement expanded to both Home and Pro editions, the SCOOBE screen now regularly nags users to "finish setting up" years-old installations and Microsoft's Copilot push changed the default PC keyboard layout for the first time in 30 years.

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« Que se passe-t-il en ce moment avec Windows 11 ? Depuis quelques mois, Microsoft semble accumuler les boulettes, dans une avalanche de problèmes techniques, alors même que Windows 10 n’a plus de support. Les annonces sur l'IA et la montée en puissance de Linux sur les jeux n'arrangent pas la situation. »

Voir aussi : https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features
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Microsoft has denied any plans to rewrite Windows 11 using AI and Rust after a LinkedIn post from one of its top-level engineers sparked a wave of online backlash by claiming the company's goal was to "eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030." Galen Hunt, a principal software engineer responsible for several large-scale research projects at Microsoft, made the claim in what was originally a hiring post for his team. His original wording described a "North Star" of "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code" and outlined a strategy to "combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft's largest codebases." The repeated use of "our" in the post led many to interpret it as an official company direction rather than a personal research ambition. Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft's head of communications, told Windows Latest that the company has no such plans. Hunt subsequently edited his LinkedIn post to clarify that "Windows is NOT being rewritten in Rust with AI" and that his team's work is a research project focused on building technology to enable language-to-language migration. He characterized the reaction as "speculative reading between the lines."

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Un message sur LinkedIn et une offre d’emploi publiés le 20 décembre 2025 ont mis en lumière une ambition pour le moins audacieuse des équipes techniques de Microsoft : se débarrasser de tout le code écrit en C ou C++ pour le remplacer par du Rust. L’objectif de cette transition est notamment lié aux garanties de sécurité offertes par ce langage de programmation.

Depuis le 15 décembre 2025, Meta ne propose plus d'application Messenger officielle sur Mac et Windows. Une décision frustrante pour des millions d'utilisateurs qui avaient pris l'habitude de l'utiliser tous les jours sur leur ordinateur.

Vous cherchez à écrire un mot avec la typographie de l'écriture inclusive ? Alors, vous aurez besoin du point médian. Ce caractère n'est cependant pas simple à dénicher sur nos claviers AZERTY classiques.

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Microsoft has acknowledged that a recent Windows preview update, KB5064081, contains a bug that renders the password icon invisible on the lock screen, leaving users to click on what appears to be empty space to enter their credentials. The issue affects Windows Insider channel users who installed the non-security preview update. The company's suggested workaround is straightforward if somewhat absurd: click where the button should be, and the password field will appear. Microsoft said it is working to resolve the issue.

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Vous cherchez comment faire un É majuscule, un À ou un Ç sur votre PC ? Plus besoin de copier-coller depuis Google. Que vous ayez un pavé numérique ou non, voici les 5 méthodes incontournables en 2025 pour accentuer vos majuscules sous Windows. Du raccourci rapide (Alt + 144) aux astuces automatiques sur Word, ne faites plus l'impasse sur l'orthographe.

Au menu de ce récap : la dépendance technologique tenace d'Airbus, qui échoue depuis 7 ans à se défaire des outils Microsoft, et l'alerte lancée par la Chine face à une production de robots humanoïdes qui devient incontrôlable.

Dell has predicted PC sales will be flat next year, despite the potential of the AI PC and the slow replacement of Windows 10. From a report: "We have not completed the Windows 11 transition," COO Jeffrey Clarke said during Dell's Q3 earnings call on Tuesday. "In fact, if you were to look at it relative to the previous OS end of support, we are 10-12 points behind at that point with Windows 11 than we were the previous generation." Clarke said that means 500 million PCs can't run Windows 11, while the same number didn't need an upgrade to handle Microsoft's latest desktop OS. The COO therefore predicted the PC market will "flourish," but then defined the word as meaning "roughly flat" sales despite Dell chalking up mid-to high single digits PC sales growth over the last year.

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Les mises à jour de Windows 11 ça a l'air de bien de passer :
https://www.it-connect.fr/ce-bug-windows-11-24h2-rend-inutilisable-le-menu-demarrer-et-la-barre-des-taches/
https://www.it-connect.fr/windows-11-ignore-votre-strategie-windows-update-et-redemarre-sans-prevenir-que-se-passe-t-il/
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In the latest Windows Insider beta update, Microsoft has announced that it is exploring preloading File Explorer in the background to improve launch performance. The feature will load File Explorer silently before users click on it and can be toggled off for those who prefer not to use it. Microsoft introduced a similar capability earlier this year for Office called Startup Boost that loads parts of Word in the background so the application launches more quickly. The company is also removing elements from the File Explorer context menu in the same update.

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