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HP’s move to put Microsoft 365 Copilot on office printers turns a familiar endpoint into an active participant in the document lifecycle — enabling on‑panel summarization, smart filing and translation that promise to shave steps off everyday scanning workflows while keeping scanned content inside the Microsoft 365 estate. Background / Overview HP recently announced "HP for Microsoft 365 Copilot," a new HP Workpath app that integrates Microsoft 365 Copilot capabilities directly into supported...

Microsoft has pushed Copilot from a productivity and search assistant into a full transactional surface: shoppers in the U.S. can now discover, compare and complete purchases inside Copilot with the launch of Copilot Checkout, while merchants get new Brand Agents and Copilot Studio templates to automate catalog, personalization and store operations. Background Microsoft framed this move as part of an “agentic commerce” shift—AI agents that do more than recommend, they can act on behalf of...

Microsoft’s Copilot is removable — but not with a single click that works the same across every PC; you can hide it, uninstall the Copilot app, block it with policy, or go deeper with community tools that strip AI components — each approach carries trade‑offs between simplicity, permanence, and risk. Background / Overview Windows 11 has evolved from a traditional desktop into a platform where AI is increasingly embedded: a consumer Copilot app, taskbar affordances (button and Win+C), File...

PayPal’s new role inside Microsoft Copilot marks a clear shift from standalone payment rails to deeply embedded, agent-driven commerce — shoppers can now search, compare, and complete purchases without ever leaving the Copilot conversational surface, with PayPal powering inventory surfacing, branded or guest checkout, and wallet and card payments as the first major payments partner to go live on Copilot.com. Background AI agents are evolving from helpful assistants into commerce enablers...

Virtual machine hosting has matured from niche lab tooling into the backbone of modern application delivery — and in 2026 the landscape is both broader and more practical than ever for developers, small businesses, and enterprises. This feature surveys nine top VM hosting services, verifies key technical claims, and gives a pragmatic playbook for choosing the right provider. It summarizes the user-supplied overview of virtual machine hosting while updating and cross-checking pricing...

Alaska Air Group is embarking on a sweeping technology overhaul after a string of high-impact outages exposed brittle on-premises infrastructure, overconcentrated cloud dependencies, and the real-world operational costs of modern IT failures — and the company’s public statements, an external audit, and market moves now point to an intentional shift toward cloud-first redundancy as the central pillar of its remediation plan. Background In late October 2025 Alaska Air Group suffered a cascade...

Astra’s new Cloud Vulnerability Scanner arrives as a direct answer to one of cloud security’s most persistent headaches: overwhelming misconfiguration noise and the disconnect between detected issues and real-world exploitability. The product promises continuous, agentless posture monitoring across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, an “offensive-grade” validation engine that confirms exploit paths, and a prioritization model that surfaces a small set of actionable issues rather than hundreds of...

Born2Invest’s two short how‑tos — one claiming a mysterious “New AMD Display Driver 30.0.13000.22008 that doesn’t exist” and another repackaging Ryzen 5 3600 Windows‑10 buying/review copy — are useful as click‑friendly entry points for nontechnical readers, but a closer look shows important factual gaps, unverifiable claims, and missing safety guidance that could leave readers exposed to unstable installs or bad upgrade choices. A careful verification against vendor documentation, community...

A quiet but consequential migration is unfolding across the professional computing landscape: an increasing number of developers, sysadmins, creators, and budget‑conscious IT teams are moving at least part of their workflows off Windows 11 and onto Linux distributions. The reasons are pragmatic rather than ideological — measurable performance gains in CPU‑ and I/O‑bound workloads, clearer privacy controls, lower total cost of ownership on aging hardware, and a maturing compatibility layer...

Algolia’s new pact with Microsoft aims to push real‑time, retailer‑approved product data directly into the emerging frontlines of AI commerce — Copilot, Bing Shopping, and Microsoft Edge — promising fresher product visibility, improved discoverability, and a way for merchants to extend their merchandising influence beyond their own sites. Background / Overview The retail landscape is shifting from property‑centric discovery (searching on a retailer’s website or a marketplace) to agentic and...

Microsoft’s first Windows 11 Insider preview of 2026 quietly introduces a new, narrowly scoped tool for IT: a Group Policy called RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp that can target and uninstall the consumer Microsoft Copilot app on managed devices — but only when a short list of strict conditions is met, and only as a one‑time, best‑effort removal. Background Microsoft has been threading a difficult needle since it began rolling Copilot into Windows: deliver a consistent AI assistant experience...

If Elden Ring: Nightreign is stuttering so badly on your Windows PC that the combat and exploration feel broken, you’re not alone — a wide swath of players have reported sudden and severe micro‑stutter after updates or routine play, and the most reliable way out is a methodical troubleshooting plan that targets the common software, driver, and power‑management causes behind frame‑time inconsistencies. Background / Overview Elden Ring: Nightreign is a demanding open‑world title that mixes...

Older PCs that choke on modern Windows releases can often be brought back to life — and kept that way — by switching to a lightweight Linux distribution, a practical shift that reduces idle CPU and memory use, cuts fan noise, and limits long-term software bloat that drags performance down. Recent community reports and hands‑on writeups show the improvements are immediate and persistent: machines become quieter, idle memory footprints fall dramatically, and daily tasks feel snappier — not as...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build quietly hands enterprise IT a narrowly scoped but practical tool: a new Group Policy that can uninstall the consumer Microsoft Copilot app on managed devices under strict conditions — a one-time cleanup capability designed to remove provisioned, unused Copilot installs without breaking tenant-managed Microsoft 365 Copilot workflows. Background Windows 11’s Copilot family now spans multiple, overlapping experiences: a free consumer-facing...

Windows 8 was not a throwaway experiment — it was an ambitious, uneven attempt to fuse a touchscreen-forward “Metro” experience with a four-decade-old desktop model, and that collision explains why it polarized users so fiercely. Thirteen years later, revisiting Windows 8 shows an OS that did some things very well (startup speed, resource efficiency and the tile paradigm) and some things very poorly (UX coherence, app ecosystem management and discoverability). The story of Windows 8 is...

VLC’s latest maintenance release quietly rewires two very different eras of Windows: it brings a modern, native Arm build for Snapdragon-powered laptops while simultaneously polishing compatibility for relics like Windows XP Service Pack 3, all inside a single, stability-focused update that matters to both power users and conservators of legacy hardware. Background / Overview VLC has long been the Swiss Army knife of media playback: free, open source, and famously capable of decoding just...

Microsoft’s latest Insider build gives administrators a supported, one‑time way to uninstall the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices — but the control is deliberately narrow, gated by strict conditions, and not a fleet‑wide “kill switch,” which means durable removal still requires layered controls and ongoing verification. Background / Overview Microsoft has been folding Copilot into Windows 11 as both a standalone app and a set of shell integrations (taskbar...

Windows 11’s quietly escalating Copilot push has taken another visible step inside the operating system’s beating heart: File Explorer. Over the past few Insider preview builds, researchers and journalists have spotted non-functional UI hotspots, resource strings and new policies that together point to a possible docked Copilot chat inside File Explorer — complete with a “Chat with Copilot” trigger and a “Detach Copilot” affordance that would let the assistant live in a sidebar or float free...

SteamOS’s recent desktop head‑to‑head with Windows 11 shows Linux isn’t just “good enough” for gaming anymore — on the right hardware and with the right stack it can match or even slightly exceed Windows at native 4K Ultra in several modern AAA titles. ETA Prime’s all‑AMD desktop tests, summarized by NotebookCheck and discussed in community analysis, put SteamOS and Windows 11 within a few percent of each other in games such as Cyberpunk 2077, Marvel’s Spider‑Man 2 and Borderlands 4 — while...

Google’s move to codify shopping for the AI era arrived at NRF as the Universal Commerce Protocol — an open, modular specification designed to let conversational agents discover products, assemble carts, apply contextual offers, and complete tokenized checkouts without bespoke integrations for each merchant and assistant surface. Background / Overview The last two years have shifted ecommerce from page‑centric funnels to conversation‑first, agentic experiences where assistants do far more...