Novel sensing technology 20 times more responsive, even in liquids - The Pennsylvania State University

Improvements are only seen on systems with 16GB or more of RAM, despite Microsoft's claim that 8GB PCs benefit most.

Tom Warren is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Earlier this year Microsoft laid out a plan to fix Windows 11, with a focus on performance, reliability, and the overall OS experience. After months of fixes, Microsoft now says the “result is a Windows experience that’s up to 20 percent more responsive.”Microsoft has made improvements to Start, File Explorer, Search, Edge, and other parts of Windows 11 to make it feel faster and more responsive. “A big part of that work is making smarter use of memory and system resources,” says Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows experiences at Microsoft. “We’ve improved memory management and efficiency across Windows to help keep more of your PC’s resources focused on what you’re actively doing.”The improvements to memory management now make a “meaningful difference” on PCs with just 8GB of RAM. “Windows can now keep up to 2GB more of your active data in memory instead of moving it to slower storage,” says Virk.

Open this photo in gallery:Raj Mittal at his home in London, Ont., Sept. 23. Nicole Osborne/The Globe and MailRaj Mittal’s new heart came in an unusual package. After a cardiac arrest and a triple bypass in June, 2025, he spent a month and a half sedated in intensive care at the London Health Sciences Centre in Ontario before he could return home to his wife and two children. When his heart condition led to pneumonia in January and another hospital stay, he learned he was a candidate for a heart transplant. Typically heart donors are patients who have been declared brain dead, but whose hearts are still beating. Once the organs are removed they are placed on ice, and can last in this state for only up to six hours, limiting how far they can travel. But when Mr. Mittal’s heart arrived in February, two weeks after he was added to Ontario’s transplant list, it was still warm and pumping blood.