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Microsoft has begun quietly testing a major upgrade to Copilot on Windows that brings semantic, natural‑language file and image search directly into the Copilot app — gated initially to Copilot+ hardware and rolling out to Windows Insiders via the Microsoft Store in a staged release. Background Microsoft has been steadily folding AI deeper into Windows over the past year under the Copilot and Copilot+ initiatives. The goal has been to move beyond literal, filename‑based lookups and into...

Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows has been reborn yet again, this time with a redesigned home dashboard and the addition of conversational, semantic file search — features rolling out to Windows Insiders now, with advanced on‑device behavior limited to Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs. Background / Overview Microsoft has iterated the Copilot experience on Windows multiple times since its original introduction: from a sidebar helper to a PWA wrapper, then a quick‑view bottom‑center popup and, most...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a staged Windows Insider preview that adds two tightly linked AI features to the Copilot app: semantic file search for locating documents and images with natural‑language queries, and a redesigned Copilot home that surfaces recent files, apps and Vision‑driven guided help—initially limited to certified Copilot+ PCs and delivered via Copilot app builds beginning with version 1.25082.132.0 on August 20, 2025. deen a mix of useful indexing and recurring...

Microsoft sits squarely at the center of the modern software industry: colossal scale, accelerating AI monetization, and a balance sheet that lets it spend aggressively on cloud infrastructure — but the company’s market multiples, peer comparisons, and some widely circulated metrics deserve careful scrutiny before investors draw firm conclusions. Background / Overview Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) organizes its business into three broad pillars — Productivity & Business Processes, Intelligent...

Microsoft has postponed the rollout of the much‑anticipated Copilot feature that would let Microsoft 365 Copilot “see” and analyze what’s being shared on a Teams meeting screen — the Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry for the feature was updated to push the release into August 2026, and Microsoft says it cannot continue the rollout at this time. Background / Overview What Microsoft announced late in 2024 and continued to document into early 2025 was straightforward: when a Teams meeting is being...

Microsoft has acknowledged an active investigation after multiple community researchers, test benches and SSD vendors reported that the Windows 11 August cumulative (commonly tracked as KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can cause certain SSDs to vanish from the operating system during sustained, large sequential writes — a failure mode that can truncate or corrupt files and, in a minority of reports, leave a drive inaccessible without vendor-level intervention. rumulative update for Windows 11...

Microsoft’s Copilot app for Windows has received a staged Insider update that adds conversational, semantic file search on Copilot+ PCs and a redesigned Copilot home that surfaces recent apps, files and conversations — all packaged in Copilot app builds starting with version 1.25082.132.0 and rolling out gradually to Windows Insiders. ers now Windows search has long been a functional but frustrating part of daily PC use: brittle filename matching, slow indexing, and inconsistent results...

Microsoft and SSD vendors are scrambling after multiple independent testers and users reported that a recent Windows 11 cumulative update can make NVMe SSDs vanish from the operating system during sustained large writes — a failure mode that in some cases has left files corrupted or drives inaccessible — and Microsoft says it is investigating the reports with partners. Background / Overview The incidents trace back to the August cumulative rollup for Windows 11 (commonly tracked as...

Microsoft's latest change to the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile experience on iOS—which converts the app into a file preview and Copilot chat wrapper that redirects editing tasks to standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps—represents a deliberate shift in how the company structures mobile productivity. Beginning September 15, 2025, iPhone users will see the Microsoft 365 Copilot app move to a preview-first model for Office documents: viewing, commenting and asking Copilot Chat about files...

Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has issued a stark public warning: engineers and executives are on the brink of building systems that look, talk and behave like persons — and society is not prepared for the consequences. In a wide-ranging essay published in August 2025, Suleyman framed a near-term risk he calls Seemingly Conscious AI (SCAI) and urged a deliberate pivot: build AI to serve people, not to mimic personhood. His argument lands at a fraught intersection of engineering...

The ROG Xbox Ally X I tried shows genuine promise as a portable Windows gaming platform — but its success depends almost entirely on how far Microsoft and OEMs can push Windows 11 out of its desktop mindset and into a controller‑first, battery‑smart handheld experience. Background Handheld PCs have matured fast: Valve’s Steam Deck proved there was a market for purpose‑built, Linux‑based handheld gaming, and OEMs have been racing to reconcile PC flexibility with console‑style simplicity...

Microsoft quietly pushed an emergency out‑of‑band update after an August security rollup left some Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs unable to complete “Reset my PC,” cloud recovery, or MDM RemoteWipe operations — the fix is published as KB5066189 for Windows 11 (with companion OOB packages for Windows 10) and should be installed on affected machines as soon as practical. Background Resetting Windows — whether using the built‑in Reset this PC flow or the cloud-based Fix problems using Windows...

Phison has confirmed it is investigating a widespread storage regression tied to Windows 11’s August cumulative update (KB5063878) while simultaneously denouncing and legally challenging a circulated document that falsely claims to be an internal Phison report linking the problem exclusively to its SSD controllers. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped the Windows 11 cumulative update identified as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) on August 12, 2025. Within days, community test benches and...

Microsoft’s public roadmap for a quantum‑safe future is no longer a research manifesto: it’s a multi‑year engineering and procurement plan that maps how SymCrypt, Windows, Azure, Microsoft 365 and silicon will evolve to resist the cryptanalytic power of future quantum computers. The company has launched a coordinated Quantum Safe Program (QSP), set firm phased goals for rolling PQC capabilities into foundational libraries and identity systems, and published timetable targets that aim for...

Microsoft is retiring the OneNote for Windows 10 app and is asking users and organizations to migrate to the newer OneNote on Windows app, with the classic UWP-style OneNote becoming read-only on October 14, 2025 — the same date Microsoft ends mainstream support for Windows 10. This move consolidates Microsoft’s note‑taking strategy around a single, actively developed OneNote application available through the Microsoft Store and Microsoft 365, but it also creates a hard deadline and a...

A recent internal compensation leak has pulled back the curtain on Microsoft’s pay structure, exposing dramatic gaps in base salary, cash bonuses, and equity awards across engineering levels and product teams and reigniting debates about pay transparency, hiring practices, and the real value of stock-heavy compensation in Big Tech. Overview The leaked dataset—comprised of hundreds of self-reported entries from Microsoft employees—provides an unusually granular look at how compensation is...

Microsoft has quietly closed a painful upgrade gap: after days of user reports and frantic troubleshooting, the Windows Setup error that surfaced as 0x8007007F during certain in‑place upgrades has been resolved and recovery/reset regressions have been mitigated with targeted out‑of‑band updates. Background The issue began to appear after Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday cumulative releases. Administrators and end users reported failed upgrade attempts where Windows Setup aborted with the...

Microsoft’s new handheld-first layer for Windows 11 — the full‑screen, Xbox‑centric “home app” experience shown on the ROG Xbox Ally family at Gamescom — is the clearest signal yet that Redmond intends to stop treating handheld gaming as an afterthought and start treating it as a first-class scenario. Early hands‑on demos show a console‑style launcher that boots in place of the traditional desktop, a stripped‑down shell that cuts background services and desktop UI elements to free resources...

Microsoft pushed emergency, out‑of‑band updates on 19 August 2025 after its regular 12 August Patch Tuesday rollups caused Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery flows to abort or roll back, leaving some users and managed fleets unable to complete “Reset this PC,” the cloud “Fix problems using Windows Update” re‑image path, and MDM‑initiated RemoteWipe operations until targeted fixes were applied. hs August 12, 2025 cumulative updates, administrators and community researchers began reporting...

Microsoft’s move to add Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro to GitHub Copilot for paying customers is a notable escalation in the cross-cloud AI arms race — but for many individual developers the better value may already be free, open-source tooling from Google that gives surprisingly broad access to the same model and capabilities without a Copilot subscription. Background / Overview GitHub has updated Copilot’s model lineup to include Gemini 2.5 Pro for paying customers across Copilot Pro, Pro+...