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Microsoft’s long‑running dark‑mode problem is beginning to look less like an unfinished promise and more like a deliberate, staged repair: recent Windows Insider and Release Preview builds contain code that darkens a cluster of previously glaring white file‑operation dialogs, and community screenshots show the change in action — albeit incomplete, gated, and still rough around the edges. Background When Microsoft first shipped a user‑selectable Dark Mode with Windows 10 in 2016 it solved one...

Your Android phone can instantly upgrade a tired laptop webcam into a crisp, flexible camera that supports front and rear lenses, higher resolutions, and far better low-light performance — and Windows 11 now includes built‑in integrations that make this easier than ever. The methods range from Microsoft’s native Mobile Devices / Phone Link flow (wireless, QR‑based pairing) to vendor‑specific USB webcam modes on some phones and mature third‑party apps such as DroidCam and IP Webcam. This...

ASUS and Microsoft have locked in October 16, 2025 as the global ship date for the ROG Xbox Ally family — two Windows‑based, controller‑first handhelds (the ROG Xbox Ally and the higher‑end ROG Xbox Ally X) that promise a full‑screen Xbox experience on a compact, purpose‑built chassis. Background The ROG Xbox Ally project is the first high‑profile outcome of a formal partnership between ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) and Xbox / Microsoft, combining ROG’s thermal and controller engineering...

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday delivered the usual mix of security fixes — and an unexpected operational headache: a servicing regression in the August 12, 2025 cumulative updates that broke Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery flows on several supported client branches and, in some upgrade scenarios, produced installer errors such as 0x8007007F. Microsoft acknowledged the problem and shipped targeted, out‑of‑band (OOB) cumulative updates on August 19, 2025 to restore Reset this PC, the...

Microsoft and several SSD vendors are investigating reports that a recent Windows 11 cumulative update can cause some solid-state drives to stop responding or “vanish” from the operating system during sustained, large file writes — a failure mode that can leave files corrupted or, in a minority of cases, drives inaccessible even after reboot. rview The issue has been tied to Windows 11 cumulative packages distributed in mid‑August 2025 (commonly tracked as KB5063878, with related reports...

The NFL’s multiyear extension with Microsoft marks a decisive shift: Copilot and Azure AI are no longer pilot projects or back‑office curiosities — they are being embedded across the league’s Sideline Viewing System, scouting workflows, stadium operations, and club business functions in a bid to deliver real‑time game insights and faster decision‑making at scale. Background / Overview For more than a decade Microsoft Surface devices have been a visible part of NFL gameday operations. That...

Microsoft’s latest Canary drop, Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27928, is a compact but telling update: Microsoft temporarily disabled the recently introduced colorful battery icon experiment while continuing a steady migration of legacy Control Panel items into the modern Settings app and shipping a targeted set of reliability fixes and known-issue warnings for Insiders to test. Background / Overview The Canary Channel remains Microsoft’s experimental front line — code lands quickly and...

Microsoft and ASUS’ ROG Xbox Ally gives the clearest look yet at what a purpose‑built, console‑inspired Windows gaming UI feels like on a handheld — a full‑screen Xbox experience that boots into a game‑first shell, ties deeply into Game Pass and Xbox services, and pairs with ASUS’ Armoury Crate SE for hardware presets and thermal modes. Background Microsoft’s recent push to make Windows more usable on handhelds has been driven by a simple problem: Windows is powerful, but its desktop‑first...

Microsoft has quietly — and usefully — begun rolling out a set of AI-powered discovery tools in Windows while the broader gadget world churns with new hardware leaks and a blunt reminder from Google: IP ratings are real, but they aren’t a lifetime guarantee. Background / Overview August’s tech cycle brought a cluster of small-but-significant developments: Microsoft is previewing semantic file search inside Copilot on Windows for Copilot+ PCs, Samsung leaks sketch out a sizeable Galaxy Tab...

Windows ships with a lot of sensible defaults — and a surprising number of questionable ones — and MakeUseOf’s recent roundup of “10 Windows settings I never leave on default” is a useful checklist for anyone who values privacy, stability, and fewer surprise interruptions. This feature pulls together ten practical changes — from dialing back telemetry to unlinking OneDrive — and the recommendations are largely sound. Below is an expanded, verified, and critical take on each tweak, with...

The NFL’s decision to fold generative AI and Microsoft’s Copilot into its sideline toolkit marks a decisive shift: intelligent assistance is moving from back-office analytics into the heat of game-day decision-making, scouting, and stadium operations in a multiyear expansion of the league’s long-standing Microsoft relationship. This move upgrades the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Surface Copilot+ devices, introduces Azure OpenAI–powered assistants into the Combine and scouting...

Microsoft’s decade‑long Surface presence on NFL sidelines has quietly evolved into an AI‑first operational program: the league’s Sideline Viewing System (SVS) has been upgraded with more than 2,500 Surface Copilot+ PCs and integrated Copilot and Azure AI tooling to give coaches, scouts and club staff conversational, real‑time access to play clips, personnel metrics and Combine analytics. Background / Overview The NFL and Microsoft have worked together for more than a decade, originally...

The NFL’s multiyear extension with Microsoft moves the long-running Surface relationship into an explicit “AI-first” operational phase, deploying Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI across sidelines, scouting, stadium operations, and front‑office workflows to deliver real‑time game insights and productivity gains at scale. view The partnership between the National Football League and Microsoft is not new; it began more than a decade ago with the adoption of Microsoft Surface tablets as the...

CachyOS’s sudden climb to the top of DistroWatch’s popularity chart has turned heads across the Linux community, and for good reason: an Arch‑based, performance‑tuned distribution that combines aggressive kernel and package optimizations with a user‑friendly installer and multiple desktop flavors is not something you see every day. The spike in attention — reflected on DistroWatch, community forums, and the Steam hardware survey — tells a consistent story: CachyOS has carved out a visible...

The NFL has quietly but decisively moved its long-running technology partnership with Microsoft into an AI-first operational phase, extending a multiyear deal that layers Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, and new Surface Copilot+ devices into sideline workflows, scouting, stadium operations, and fan-facing marketing—an upgrade confirmed by league and vendor statements and widely reported by independent outlets. Background / Overview The NFL and Microsoft have a relationship that began more than a...

Microsoft’s operating system roadmap is at a rare inflection point: with Windows 10 scheduled to reach end of support on October 14, 2025, the company is steering millions of devices toward a new era defined less by big version numbers and more by deep, AI-first integration — and that shift is fueling both realistic planning and fan-made speculation about what a future Windows 12 could look like. Microsoft’s official guidance on end-of-life, its public AI strategy, and a steady stream of...

The August cumulative for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878) has been linked by multiple independent testers and specialist outlets to a reproducible storage regression that, under sustained large write workloads, can make some NVMe SSDs — and a small number of HDDs in isolated reports — disappear from Windows and, in a minority of cases, suffer data corruption or permanent loss. Background / Overview The package in question is the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 version 24H2 (OS...

Microsoft is quietly expanding Copilot's remit inside Windows 11, now testing an AI-driven, semantic file and image search directly inside the Copilot app for Windows Insiders — a change that replaces keyword- and filename-only lookups with natural-language queries and a redesigned Copilot home that surfaces recent apps, files and Vision-powered guided help. Overview Microsoft’s latest Copilot update for Windows 11 — rolling out to Windows Insiders via the Microsoft Store — brings two...

Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel flight makes one thing painfully clear: the long, awkward coexistence between the old Control Panel and the modern Settings app is finally being resolved in Microsoft’s favor — and the pace has picked up. Build 27928, released to Insiders on August 20, 2025, simultaneously ships a bundle of small but meaningful time, date, language and regional controls inside Settings and temporarily rolls back a visual battery experiment — a clear signal that Microsoft is...

Microsoft’s Copilot is delivering real productivity gains across Word, Teams, Outlook and other Microsoft 365 surfaces — but a recent disclosure shows those gains can come at the cost of auditability: under certain prompting patterns Copilot has produced user-visible summaries and actions without creating the expected Purview audit entries, potentially leaving compliance and forensics teams blind to sensitive data access. Background Microsoft 365 Copilot is deeply integrated across the...