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Microsoft’s mobile Copilot experience now appears to default to cloud-first processing: when the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app is set as the device’s document viewer, opening a local attachment can upload that file to OneDrive (and into Copilot’s processing pipeline) before you can simply read it locally—a behavioral shift with immediate UX, privacy, and enterprise governance implications. Background / Overview Microsoft has incrementally pushed Copilot deeper into OneDrive, Office apps...

Microsoft has acknowledged a software bug that allowed Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to read and summarize emails explicitly labeled as confidential, bypassing organizations’ Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and sensitivity-label protections — a lapse that underlines the hard trade-off between productivity gains and enterprise data governance when AI helpers are trusted with private content. Background Microsoft 365 Copilot is now a central productivity layer inside Office applications, designed to...

Enterprise storage is quietly rewriting its rules: Linux — in both pure open-source form and as the hidden kernel of proprietary NAS platforms — now sits at the heart of most file-server deployments, and the size of the NAS market is ballooning into the tens of billions as organizations and prosumers balance on‑premise reliability with cloud convenience. Recent analyses show a broad shift in how storage is built, sold, and operated: the line between “Linux” and “proprietary” has blurred...

Microsoft today offered Canary‑channel Windows Insiders a clear choice: stay on the existing 28000‑series preview path focused on 26H1 feature exploration, or opt into a new, optional platform‑development path that will move participating devices to Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 29531.1000 and begin a new 29500‑series of flights. Background / Overview The Windows Insider Program posted the announcement on February 18, 2026, describing an optional update that appears under Settings >...

Microsoft is quietly rolling a one‑click network speed test into Windows 11’s taskbar, but for now it’s a fast path to a browser‑based tool rather than a native diagnostic engine — a small convenience that reveals larger choices Microsoft is making about web‑first utilities, telemetry, and where diagnostic workloads should live. Background Windows has long left ad‑hoc internet speed checks to third‑party websites and small utilities. Power users and IT pros have traditionally reached for...

I flipped one Windows network setting and my YouTube videos stopped buffering — but the fix is a trade-off that deserves a clear-headed look at what's actually happening under the hood and when you should (or should not) apply it. Background If you've ever watched a 1080p YouTube video buffer on a connection that checks out fine on a speed test, you're not alone. Streaming stalls that don't match your raw bandwidth are often caused by problems other than sheer throughput: route quality, DNS...

After Windows 11’s October 5, 2021 debut, the Taskbar — the single most persistent and visible surface on the Windows desktop — was reshaped, simplified, and in doing so removed long‑standing controls users expected: the ability to move the bar to a different screen edge and to resize it. Nearly four and a half years later, widespread community frustration, a thriving ecosystem of third‑party workarounds, and fresh signals that Microsoft may be prototyping a reversal make a compelling case...

Dhammajarinee Witthaya School has turned a long-held charitable mission — giving underserved Thai girls a safe home and a complete education — into a laboratory for what education looks like when cutting-edge AI tools are aligned with Buddhist values and community-focused pedagogy. The Ratchaburi boarding school, which serves more than a thousand girls from kindergarten through grade 12, is piloting Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Surface devices, and AI-skilling programs tied to the Microsoft...

Microsoft appears to be quietly reversing one of Windows 11’s most contentious design decisions: engineering teams are prototyping a way to move and resize the taskbar, potentially restoring top‑ and side‑docking and giving users direct control over taskbar thickness. The work is currently experimental — widely reported by the Windows beat and visible in PowerToys explorations — but if it reaches the Windows Insider preview pipeline in mid‑2026 it would be one of the clearest concessions...

Intel’s support organization has launched an AI-powered virtual assistant called Ask Intel, built on Microsoft’s Copilot Studio, as part of a deliberate shift to a “digital‑first” support model that includes scaling back inbound phone and social‑media support in favor of agentic AI, guided self‑service, and deeper site integration. Background Intel’s move comes amid broader reorganization inside its Sales and Marketing Group (SMG), where management has been explicitly refocusing resources on...

Microsoft's Copilot has been quietly doing what it was designed to do—read, understand, and summarize conversations and documents—but a recently disclosed bug shows that automation can compound human error and weaken long-standing access controls in a heartbeat. For weeks, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat incorrectly processed and summarized emails that organizations had explicitly marked as confidential, and in some cases surfaced those summaries to users who did not have permission to read the...

The market’s fury over hyperscaler AI spending is understandable, but short‑sighted: the billions Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft are pouring into data centers, specialized silicon, and networking are not wasteful vanity projects — they are a strategic, multi‑decade play to own the compute layer of the AI economy, and the Q4 results and infrastructure moves from those firms already show the first line of return on that investment. Background / Overview Artificial intelligence today runs on...

Newly obtained records and multiple independent news reports show U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement dramatically expanded its reliance on Microsoft’s cloud and AI tools during a recent surge in enforcement activity — a shift that transforms routine immigration operations into a high-scale, cloud‑powered surveillance apparatus and raises urgent questions about corporate responsibility, government procurement, and civil liberties. Background The central factual claim in the recent...

Canadian Tire’s announcement that it is scaling a Microsoft-built, Azure-hosted AI platform called MOSaiC marks a major step in the retailer’s multi-year modernization drive — moving from isolated data projects to a centralized, micro‑occasion intelligence engine intended to predict short‑term, local demand and coordinate inventory, promotions and content across Canadian Tire, Mark’s and SportChek...

Mozilla has drawn a firm line under one of the last mainstream lifelines for legacy desktops: Firefox 115 (ESR) will be the final Firefox release that runs on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, and Mozilla will stop shipping security updates for those builds at the end of February 2026. Background: why Firefox stayed longer than the rest When Microsoft ended mainstream and extended support for the Windows 7 / 8 family, browser vendors began pulling away quickly. Chromium-based browsers...

Microsoft’s February cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5077181, which Microsoft published to address gaming eligibility and security issues, has begun to produce the opposite effect for a non‑trivial set of users — introducing rhythmic in‑game freezes, stutters, graphics regressions and, in some cases, install failures and network problems that only disappear after the patch is removed. Background / Overview Microsoft released KB5077181 on February 10, 2026, for Windows 11 versions 24H2...

Windows 11 can be tightened for privacy without turning your PC into an offline paperweight, but doing it safely requires knowing what each tweak changes, which telemetry is removable, and where trade‑offs create security risks. The practical checklist published by an in‑house Windows expert—covering everything from switching to a local account and disabling optional telemetry to uninstalling OneDrive, Copilot, and Windows Recall—captures most of the straightforward, user‑level changes you...

Microsoft’s latest Beta-channel maintenance flight for Windows 11 is small on fanfare but large on polish: Build 26220.7859 (delivered as KB5077223) focuses squarely on reliability fixes that address long-standing annoyances in the taskbar, File Explorer, Nearby Sharing and select Settings pages — and it quietly tests a new in‑OS Microsoft 365 upsell prompt for Microsoft 365 Family subscribers that you can turn off if you don’t want it. Background / Overview Microsoft continues to service...

Windows 11 can feel sleek and modern, but on older or underpowered hardware its polish sometimes comes at the cost of responsiveness and battery life. This article walks through practical, safe, and well‑tested ways to speed up and optimize Windows 11 — from quick settings anyone can change to deeper adjustments and the risks you should know before making them. The guidance synthesizes community-tested tweaks and tools while flagging steps that need backups or extra caution. Background /...

Microsoft has quietly added a one‑click internet speed test to the Windows 11 taskbar in recent Insider and Release Preview builds, placing a Perform speed test / Test internet speed shortcut directly inside the network flyout and Wi‑Fi quick settings — and for now that shortcut launches a browser‑based speed test rather than running a native, in‑OS measurement engine. Background Windows has long left ad‑hoc throughput checks to external services and lightweight utilities: users habitually...