Windows 11 emoji panel showing "GIF service is not available"? Here's why GIFs disappeared, how to fix the problem, and why ...

Have you noticed that GIFs recently stopped working in Windows 11? Microsoft explains why that happened and how to fix it.

The fifth preview version of the upcoming .NET version 11.0 was released yesterday evening. In parallel, there was also version 11904.113 of the Insiders variant of Visual Studio 2026, which is ...

Microsoft released .NET 11 Preview 4, a broad update covering runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C# and Entity Framework Core. The company said the fourth preview includes improvements ...

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After a focus in .NET 9 around intelligent app development, subsequent releases have shifted attention back to core platform work. Coders are still complaining, though, with operational friction a ...

provided in the Benchmark, section(s), and profile level listed above to a hardened state consistent with a CIS Benchmark. 'Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service' = ...

A Windows 11 security update triggered Microsoft app sign-in failures, prompting an emergency patch and a manual workaround for affected users. It’s not your Wi-Fi. It’s your Windows update. There is ...

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Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 1, a planned update to the cross-platform software development platform that features JIT performance improvements, faster compression, CoreCLR support ...

Legacy .NET Framework version is now available as a standalone installer for applications that require it on newer versions of Windows. Microsoft’s .NET Framework 3 ...

Update 10/17/25: Microsoft fixes the bug using a KIR (Known Issue Rollback) update. More information added to end of story. Microsoft's October Windows 11 updates have broken the "localhost" ...