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Microsoft is quietly testing Copilot recommendations inside the Windows 11 Start menu — a small interface change that marks a strategic shift: Microsoft is no longer content to confine Copilot to a sidebar or system tray; it wants the AI assistant surfaced where users begin tasks, and it’s experimenting with ways to nudge people toward paid Copilot tiers. Background / Overview Microsoft’s long-term aim to weave Copilot into the fabric of Windows is accelerating. Insiders and feature hunters...

Microsoft Copilot is now a practical, multi-platform AI companion that can draft documents, summarize threads, generate images, read your screen, and act on your behalf — but getting the most from it takes more than a casual prompt. This guide explains what Copilot is, how to sign up (including Copilot Pro), how the interface works across Windows, Edge, macOS and mobile, and — most importantly — how to craft prompts, manage privacy, and avoid common pitfalls so the assistant speeds your work...

Microsoft’s decision to bake OpenAI’s GPT‑5 into the heart of its consumer, developer, and enterprise products is one of the most consequential platform moves in recent memory — a coordinated, cross‑product rollout that promises deeper reasoning, longer context handling, and an automated model‑routing layer that decides when to “think” and when to answer quickly. epenAI’s partnership has accelerated through successive GPT generations; with GPT‑5 the relationship moves from iterative...

You probably use Windows every day without realizing it already comes with dozens of tiny productivity and security features that feel like magic once you know they exist—features such as dictation that types your words for you, OCR that pulls text straight out of images, a cloud-backed clipboard history, automatic locking when you walk away, and quick file transfers to nearby PCs. These tools are built into Windows 10 and Windows 11 but are often disabled, lightly documented, or tucked...

The preseason scoreboard read Rams 31, Cowboys 21, but the real story from the night was less about a final number and more about what the game revealed — and what a single Herald Journal photograph amplified — about depth, injury risk, and narrative framing during live NFL auditions. Background / Overview Preseason football operates as an evaluation laboratory, not a predictive ledger. Coaches trade definitive outcomes for controlled experiments in player availability, situational packages...

Microsoft’s Windows could reclaim its place as the undisputed productivity platform in 2025 — but only if Microsoft stops prioritizing marketing nudges and gimmicks and instead delivers focused, enterprise-grade features that solve real workplace pain points now, not sometime next quarter. Background The discussion around productivity-first changes to Windows has intensified recently, with commentaries arguing that the operating system needs practical fixes rather than cosmetic or...

Microsoft engineers once built a proof-of-concept Windows experience specifically for handheld gaming devices during an internal hackathon — a prototype that showed how Windows 11 could present a gamepad-first, console-style interface and make Xbox Game Pass, Steam, Epic, and other storefronts easier to launch on pocket-sized hardware. The idea has circulated in leaks and forum posts for more than two years, and while evidence shows Microsoft employees prototyped a dedicated handheld shell...

Adesso’s latest EasyTouch keyboards aim to marry quiet mechanical typing with one-touch AI convenience, introducing the EasyTouch 130 and EasyTouch 150 — both outfitted with tactile Brown mechanical switches and a dedicated Microsoft Copilot hotkey that promises instant access to Windows’ AI assistant. Background Adesso has long positioned itself as a maker of pragmatic, office-oriented input devices that emphasize value and accessibility. The EasyTouch family expands that approach into a...

Microsoft’s Build 2017 keynote set the stage for a major autumn refresh to Windows 10, but several widely circulated reports — including one that mistakenly called the release “Windows 9” and predicted a September ship date — blurred factual detail with translation noise and optimism; the actual roadmap and feature set that emerged from Microsoft’s talks at Build and IFA were both more measured and better documented. oo preview what it described as the next wave of Windows 10 features aimed...

The image and brief caption that ran with The Herald Journal’s “Ravens Cowboys Football” item do more than illustrate a single play—they crystallize a preseason narrative that, taken alone, can mislead as often as it informs; careful inspection of the accompanying facts, verified box-score lines, and the image’s unknown metadata show a clear pattern: this was a diagnostic preseason performance, not a predictive regular-season verdict. eason football functions as a controlled audition...

The AI infrastructure era is consolidating around three firms that sit at the intersection of design, fabrication, and deployment: Nvidia for compute architectures and software stacks, TSMC for the advanced manufacturing that turns designs into reality, and Microsoft for the cloud fabric and enterprise distribution that scale AI into production—an argument laid out in the AInvest analysis and reinforced by company disclosures and independent industry data. Background The AI transition is not...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 24H2 test build quietly removes two long-running pieces of Windows heritage — WordPad and Windows Mixed Reality — while shipping a set of newer, developer‑ and servicing‑focused features that point to where Microsoft wants Windows to go next. The change is consequential: WordPad’s removal severs a nearly 30‑year lineage of a lightweight rich‑text editor bundled with Windows, and the Mixed Reality exit formally pulls the plug on a consumer VR/AR foothold Microsoft once...

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The Los Angeles Rams edged the Dallas Cowboys 31–21 in a preseason clash that read like a scouting report more than a scoreline: Stetson Bennett delivered a disciplined, efficient night (16-of-24 for 188 yards and two touchdowns), Blake Corum supplied short-yardage finishing in two early TDs, and the Cowboys walked away with a productive offensive preview overshadowed by Joe Milton’s elbow soreness late in the fourth quarter. Background Preseason football is a laboratory: coaches trade the...

Microsoft partners’ marketing materials briefly set off a flurry of headlines claiming Windows 11 would get Wi‑Fi 7 support in a spring “24H1” update — but the public record and vendor guidance tell a different, more complex story about timing, drivers, and what it will actually take to get multi‑gigabit wireless working in real Windows environments. Background / Overview Dell’s promotional collateral for new XPS laptops (which referenced “Windows 11 version 24H1” being available for...

Microsoft’s plan to add Linux and Android subsystem support to Windows 365 Cloud PCs — long visible on the Microsoft 365 roadmap — resurfaced in headlines recently, but the full story is more nuanced than a single preview date. Microsoft documented nested virtualization for Cloud PCs (the technical route that enables Windows Subsystem for Linux and the Windows Subsystem for Android to run inside a Cloud PC) as a roadmap item and began preview rollouts in 2022; more recent Microsoft...

Microsoft has quietly unlocked one of the most consequential features Windows on Arm owners have been waiting for: the Xbox PC app can now — in preview — download and run compatible games locally on Arm-based Windows 11 devices. Background Windows on Arm has long been pitched as the battery‑friendly, always‑connected alternative to x86 laptops, but the platform’s gaming story has been uneven. Early Arm laptops shipped with native app support for a few titles and heavy reliance on cloud...

Microsoft’s Windows 10 S and the accompanying Surface Laptop were less a surprise and more a strategic recalibration: a deliberately simplified, cloud-first Windows SKU paired with a premium clamshell that wore Microsoft’s design language like a banner. Announced as a classroom-friendly combination, Windows 10 S locked down app installs to the Microsoft Store and emphasized manageability, while the Surface Laptop showcased a high‑resolution 3:2 PixelSense display, Alcantara palm rest, and...

Microsoft's warning about servicing Windows installation images with a fresh Microsoft Defender package is a timely reminder that new installations can inherit an invisible security gap: the antimalware binaries and definitions embedded in ISO/WIM/VHD images become stale the moment an image is created, and until those components are updated the freshly installed system may be less protected during its first minutes or hours of operation. This week’s coverage — spurred by a recent news item —...

Microsoft has taken a long-running complaint about Notepad’s overstuffed right‑click menu seriously: Insiders are now seeing a compact, File Explorer–style context menu that surfaces core edit actions in a single top row while keeping AI and less‑used commands below — a move that trims pointer travel and restores much of the app’s original quick‑edit ergonomics. Background Notepad’s makeover has been one of the quieter but consequential threads in Windows 11’s evolution. Over the past year...