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Microsoft is quietly experimenting with embedding Copilot directly into Windows 11’s File Explorer as a docked, detachable side panel — and at the same time shipping targeted controls that let administrators remove the consumer Copilot app under narrow conditions. Background Microsoft has steadily expanded Copilot from a separate app and taskbar composer into a system-level assistant across Windows 11 and Microsoft 365. Recent Insider preview artifacts point to a next step: moving Copilot...

UK organisations are telling themselves a story of AI readiness that the data now shows is more optimism than operational reality. Background ANS, a UK-based cloud and digital services provider that was recently named Microsoft UK Partner of the Year 2025, has published a new industry study — AI Readiness Secured — that quantifies a growing disconnect between executive confidence and technical preparedness for AI security across British organisations. The survey, conducted in partnership...

Snapdragon processors have quietly rewritten the rules for what a Windows laptop can be: built as energy-efficient ARM-based System-on-Chips (SoCs) with integrated 5G, dedicated neural engines, and phone-like instant-on behaviour, they trade raw x86 peak power for dramatically improved battery life, always‑connected mobility, and on‑device AI acceleration — a trade that has already reshaped thin‑and‑light notebooks and is accelerating with every new Snapdragon generation. Background For...

Amazon’s plan to bring Alexa to Windows 10 PCs in early 2018 reshaped conversations about where voice assistants belong — not just in speakers and phones, but on the primary computing surface millions of people use every day — and the rollout that followed exposed both the promise and the fragility of adding cloud voice assistants to the PC ecosystem. Background / Overview Amazon announced at CES 2018 that it was preparing a Windows 10 app that would put Alexa on select PCs from major OEMs...

A new community tool called RemoveWindowsAI bundles a PowerShell script and GUI front end to remove or disable most of the AI surfaces Microsoft has layered into modern Windows 11 builds — including Copilot, Recall, Paint/Notepad AI bits, and related Appx/MSIX components — and it does so by combining registry/policy flips, Appx removals, scheduled‑task and data wipes, and optional edits to Windows’ Component‑Based Servicing (CBS) inventory intended to block automatic reinstallation...

Microsoft has pushed KB5027303 — a Release Preview‑channel cumulative for Windows 11 version 22H2 that bundles the packaged “Moment 3” feature payload alongside a slate of usability refinements, accessibility improvements, developer tools and targeted reliability fixes, and the roll‑out has already surfaced a mix of welcome improvements and some regressions reported by users. Background / Overview KB5027303 arrived in late June 2023 to Release Preview Insiders and is labeled as a...

On the morning of January 13, 2026 a flurry of posts and screenshots on community forums and social channels asked the same blunt question: Is Microsoft Copilot down? The short answer for most users is no, not globally — but the full picture is more complex: Copilot has experienced intermittent, regionally scoped degradations in recent weeks, a series of model-provider incidents in early January, and a platform-specific discontinuation (Copilot on WhatsApp) that has added to user confusion...

Copilot’s arrival inside GroupMe turns a once-simple group-messaging app into a practical, AI-assisted workspace where planning, catch-ups, and creative collaboration happen without leaving the chat window. Background / Overview Microsoft has embedded Copilot directly into GroupMe so users can summon the assistant from any group conversation by mentioning @Copilot, and can also use it in one‑on‑one direct messages for private prompts. This in‑chat integration is designed to reduce app...

Microsoft 365 Copilot has gone from curious demo to a practical productivity layer across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and the standalone Copilot app — and the difference for busy teams is now measurable. The core promise is simple: spend less time on repetitive drafting, meeting wrangling, and data triage by delegating first drafts, summaries, and routine actions to an AI that is grounded in your work data and web sources. This feature-driven guide synthesizes the most actionable...

For many organisations the move to the cloud has already happened — workloads have been migrated, virtual machines spun up, and SaaS rolled out — yet the expected payoff in agility, scalability and faster innovation often remains elusive. The distinction Luke Bainbridge draws in ITWeb — that cloud adoption is not the same as cloud maturity — is the blunt truth behind stalled cloud projects and an opportunity for partners to move from transactional suppliers to strategic enablers. Background...

Zorin OS 18 has crossed the seven-figure mark: the distro’s developers say the new release has been downloaded more than one million times in just over a month, and that a striking majority of those downloads—over 78%—originated from Windows computers, a metric the project is using to argue that many Windows 10 users are actively exploring Linux as a practical alternative. Background The announcement from Zorin Group arrived in the immediate aftermath of Microsoft’s formal end of free...

Microsoft has quietly given administrators a supported — if deliberately narrow — way to uninstall the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices by shipping a new Group Policy setting in the Insider Preview that uninstalls the app when strict conditions are met. Background / Overview Since Copilot became a first-class element of Windows 11, Microsoft has delivered multiple, overlapping Copilot experiences: the free consumer Microsoft Copilot app that ships or is...

The web browser you choose matters more than you think: it shapes privacy, performance, productivity and — increasingly — how AI and platform services interact with everything you do online. A recent roundup of four standout alternatives intentionally omits Google Chrome and makes a strong case for Opera, Zen Browser, Tor Browser, and FireDragon as practical, high‑value options for different use cases. The original roundup frames its choices around tab management, built‑in convenience...

Microsoft has quietly added a narrowly scoped but important admin control to Windows 11: a Group Policy named RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp that can perform a one‑time uninstall of the consumer Microsoft Copilot app on managed devices — but it only runs under strict conditions (Insider preview Build 26220.7535 / KB5072046) and is deliberately designed as a targeted cleanup tool rather than a universal “kill switch.” Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot effort has become a multi‑layered...

A small, open-source PowerShell project has reignited a debate that’s been simmering since Microsoft began folding large language models into the Windows desktop: a developer calling themselves zoicware published a script that promises to remove virtually all AI features from Windows 11 (25H2 and later). The project — published on GitHub as RemoveWindowsAI and quickly mirrored and forked across sites — bundles registry tweaks, AppX removals, Component-Based Servicing (CBS) cleaning and a...

For many Windows 10 users nursing an older ATI/AMD card back to life, the path to a usable display driver is less about magic and more about procedure: accept Microsoft’s signed fallback where practical, use OEM drivers when available, and—only when necessary—perform a cautious manual install of an archived Catalyst/legacy package after a full backup and a clean driver removal. Community-tested workflows and vendor guidance converge on a conservative sequence that maximizes stability while...

Microsoft has quietly given administrators a narrowly scoped way to remove the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices, but the escape hatch is deliberately limited: the removal is a one‑time, conditional uninstall that depends on exact prerequisites and does not eliminate Copilot integrations or the paid Microsoft 365 Copilot service. Background Microsoft’s Copilot family has grown into a multi‑layered set of experiences inside Windows and Microsoft 365. That family...

Microsoft is quietly testing a targeted, admin-facing way to remove the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices: a new Group Policy named RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp delivered in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7535 (KB5072046) that performs a conditional, one‑time uninstall when strict criteria are met. Background Microsoft has been integrating Copilot across Windows and Microsoft 365 for several release cycles, producing overlapping experiences that include the...

AI personal‑finance assistants are no longer curiosities — they are practical tools that can speed up budgeting, summarize dense plan documents, and automate spreadsheet work, but choosing the right one requires matching capabilities to where your data lives, how much auditability you need, and how you plan to verify results. Background AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Anthropic Claude have moved from experimental chatbots to integrated productivity...

Windows Server “Longhorn” wasn’t merely a codename and a set of screenshots — it was the inflection point where Microsoft rethought how Windows would be administered, secured, and automated in the datacenter, and the archived PCMag image gallery serves as a useful time capsule for that transition. Background / Overview Longhorn originally described an ambitious and wide‑ranging engineering effort that touched both client and server code paths; the server lineage that grew out of that work...