Neowin News Feed for: Shenanigans

Microsoft faces heat after quietly blocking promised Office features on Apple systems

Sayan Sen — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:50:01 +0000

Microsoft is facing growing backlash for silently restricting Office capabilities that had been earlier promised to users on Apple devices. Read more...

Microsoft tests new way to make Edge default Windows 11 browser over Chrome & Firefox

Sayan Sen — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:30:01 +0000

Microsoft is testing an interesting new way to make Edge become your favorite and hopefully default browser on Windows 11. Read more...

We now know why Nvidia blocked yet another review, the new RTX 5050 is apparently terrible

Sayan Sen — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:08:02 +0000

Nvidia did not allow reviews for another one of its new GeForce products as it blocked RTX 5050 reviews on launch day. We now know why. Read more...

Google not letting YouTube videos play with Opera, Firefox adblockers. Chrome is slow.

Sayan Sen — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:28:01 +0000

Google's anti-adblocking banner on YouTube which prevents videos from playing is back. Opera, OperaGX, and Firefox may be affected. It could also be making Chrome slow. Read more...

Microsoft quietly deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs

Sayan Sen — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 22:14:01 +0000

Microsoft has quietly removed the official Windows 11 system requirements bypass that allowed users to upgrade on unsupported PCs. Read more...

Facebook apparently banning people from posting Linux related content on its platform

Karthik Mudaliar — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 04:46:02 +0000

In a weirdly surprising move, Facebook is restricting posts related to Linux content on its platform and flagging them against its Community Guidelines, including popular site DistroWatch. Read more...

Bing no longer pretends to be Google, but it still tries hard to make you stay

Taras Buria — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:46:01 +0000

Microsoft recently attempted to fool users into Bing by making its search look like that of Google. Following the backlash, the company backtracked its decision. Read more...

Microsoft tricks people into Bing by making it look like Google Search

Taras Buria — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:28:01 +0000

Microsoft's latest trick to force users to stick with its Bing search engine is making it look like Google Search. Read more...

AMD doesn't want you installing Windows 10 on these Ryzen PCs despite Microsoft's support

Sayan Sen — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 11:26:01 +0000

The popular Ryzen 7000 series APUs for the budget segment apparently does not support Windows 10 at all, which is rather surprising. Read more...

Microsoft-paid study shows Windows 11 is just way too fast compared to Windows 10

Sayan Sen — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:12:01 +0000

Microsoft has flaunted the exceptional performance improvements on Windows 11 vs Windows 10 using a paid study. Read more...

UltraAV says Kaspersky users were moved over for their own good and they knew it was coming

Sayan Sen — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:38:02 +0000

UltraAV has issued a statement to Neowin explaining why Kaspersky users were moved over for their own good and why users should not worry. Read more...

Kaspersky users suddenly finding "UltraAV" automatically installed on their PC, here's why

Sayan Sen — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:22:01 +0000

Users are suddenly finding their Kaspersky anti-virus automatically uninstalled itself and has been replaced with "UltraAV." Read more...

Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon partner admits your phone could listen to everything

Sayan Sen — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 08:02:01 +0000

An advertising partner of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon admitted that your smartphones and other devices can listen to everything you say for ad targeting. Read more...

Microsoft apparently hates it when you switch from Microsoft Account to Local account

Sayan Sen — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 21:36:01 +0000

Microsoft recently published multiple guides on various Windows features and one of them had to do with switching from a Local to an MSA. And it seems the company likes it in no other way. Read more...

Running unactivated Windows? Microsoft now wants to block Settings inside Edge too

Sayan Sen — Thu, 09 May 2024 09:08:01 +0000

Microsoft does not allow the personalization of your PC if the copy of Windows you are running is not activated. The company is now testing a similar upcoming change in Edge as well. Read more...

Microsoft may want to add a dedicated Windows 11 button for ads and promos

Sayan Sen — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 07:54:02 +0000

Microsoft has been making lots of changes to the recommended section where it promotes apps and websites. The company may now be looking to add a dedicated button on Windows 11 just for that. Read more...

Microsoft quietly adds Windows UCPD driver to block Registry hacks for default app switches

Sayan Sen — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 07:48:01 +0000

The Patch Tuesday updates for the last few months have quietly rolled out a new UCPD driver. This new driver by Microsoft is seemingly intended to block default app switches by Registry hacks. Read more...

Google reportedly let OpenAI transcribe a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 06:16:01 +0000

After AI companies hit the wall to gather high-quality data to train their AI models, companies like OpenAI are alleged to have transcribed a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4. Read more...

Google VPN caught overwriting your Windows 11/10 DNS settings with its own

Sayan Sen — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:58:01 +0000

Google One VPN services came to Windows around a year and a half ago. However, the service has been found messing with the DNS settings on Windows 11 and 10 users' PCs without much warning. Read more...

Google explains why it did not make Firefox load YouTube slowly on purpose

Sayan Sen — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:12:01 +0000

Recently, users online began reporting that YouTube was loading slower on Firefox and not on Chrome and it was found to be intentional. To put an end to conspiracy theories, Google has responded. Read more...

YouTube seemingly intentionally slow loading on Firefox while Google Chrome works fine

Sayan Sen — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:46:01 +0000

If you happen to use Firefox and you recently noticed YouTube loading up slowly on it, chances are it's not your internet or your hardware— Firefox itself allegedly causing the issue. Read more...

New Outlook for Windows wants to send your non-MSA data to its servers for your own good

Sayan Sen — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 07:46:01 +0000

Microsoft's New Outlook for Windows was released recently and it has garnered mixed reactions from users. Interestingly, the app can also send non-MSA data to Microsoft servers to benefit users. Read more...

Yandex alleges AMD's Windows drivers unfairly favor Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge

Sayan Sen — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 21:30:04 +0000

AMD GPU drivers may be unfairly favoring certain browsers, according to a report by Russian browser maker Yandex. The firm alleges that simply renaming a file can reduce crashes by over five times. Read more...

Canon slapped with lawsuit for disabling scans when printers are out of ink

Sayan Sen — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 19:00:01 +0000

Canon has been sued by one of its customers for selling seemingly misleading All-in-One printers that claim to also scan, and do more, but are only fully functional when ink cartridges are full. Read more...

Apple found guilty of patent infringement

Sam Symons — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:16:48 +0000

Uh oh! It seems Apple has been bringing out so many new products with new features recently that it has forgotten about a little matter called patents. A company named Opti Inc. is the winner... Read more...

Broadband Shenanigans

Wed, 25 Dec 2002 04:35:46 +0000

The broadband race is making a U-turn, as Web giants such as Yahoo, MSN and now America Online head away from plans to run their own high-speed Net access services and move toward branding partnerships... Read more...