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Microsoft’s Copilot is moving from sidebar novelty toward the center of Windows workflows: recent Insider artifacts and press coverage show a context‑menu “Copilot” entry in File Explorer that can send files to the assistant or produce quick summaries, and evidence of a detachable, chat‑style Copilot pane being tested inside Explorer itself. Background Microsoft has pursued an aggressive plan to make Copilot an integral assistant across Windows and Microsoft 365, folding LLM‑based features...

StarRupture exploded into Steam Early Access on January 6, 2026, and within days vaulted into the top of Steam’s charts — a strong early showing for Creepy Jar’s ambitious open-world survival and factory-building hybrid that blends the logistics of Satisfactory with the planetary exploration of No Man’s Sky. The launch has produced headline player-count figures (widely reported near 28,000 concurrent users), an early community rating in the low‑to‑mid‑80s percent range on Steam, and a...

Microsoft’s latest push folds deeper AI into enterprise defenses: a cloud-native SIEM rebranded as Microsoft Sentinel and a human-plus-AI advisory service called Microsoft Threat Experts that together promise faster detection, more automated SecOps, and 24/7 access to Microsoft’s security analysts for triage and threat context. These moves — announced around major security forums and rolling into public previews and later general availability — crystallize a strategy to make Azure not just a...

If you are wrestling with an aging NVIDIA GeForce 7100 (or GT/710 family) and trying to run it on Windows 10, the practical reality is clear: you can often get a usable desktop experience, but it requires careful sourcing of drivers, conservative procedures (backup + DDU), and realistic expectations about features, security, and long‑term viability. For production or security‑sensitive machines, the conservative recommendation is to prefer OEM‑validated packages or replace the hardware; for...

Microsoft’s Copilot has moved from answer engine to checkout lane almost overnight, and the implications for retailers, shoppers and platform governance are profound. Copilot Checkout — an in‑chat, tokenized payment flow that lets U.S. users discover products, confirm shipping and complete purchases without leaving the conversation — is live on Copilot.com today, backed by a trio of major commerce partners and a push to make entire Shopify storefronts “agent‑ready.” Background / Overview The...

Microsoft’s forced migration away from the lightweight, native Mail & Calendar apps toward a single web‑wrapped Outlook has left many Windows 11 users feeling betrayed — the new Outlook behaves like a browser in a window, feels sluggish on tablet devices, and is reigniting debates about WebView2, resource use, and Microsoft’s broader direction for Windows. Background Microsoft announced the planned replacement of the built‑in Mail, Calendar, and People apps with the consolidated new Outlook...

OHM Advisors has migrated its enterprise GIS to Esri ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 on Microsoft Azure in partnership with GEO Jobe, replacing a mixed ArcGIS Online / on‑premises footprint with a centralized, cloud‑first Web GIS designed for performance, scale, and better cross‑office collaboration. Background OHM Advisors is a multidisciplinary architecture, engineering, and planning firm with offices across the U.S.; GEO Jobe is an Esri Platinum Partner focused on ArcGIS infrastructure, cloud...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 Insider Preview has finally given IT teams a supported, admin-facing path to remove the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed devices — but the escape hatch is deliberately narrow, gated by hard conditions, and best understood as a surgical cleanup tool rather than a fleet-wide kill switch. Background / Overview Microsoft has been folding Copilot into Windows and its productivity stack for more than two years, producing a family of related experiences: a...

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Microsoft has quietly handed IT teams a long‑asked‑for tool: a Group Policy that can remove the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices — but the power comes with a set of deliberate limits and practical hurdles that mean this is a surgical cleanup tool, not a fleetwide “kill switch.” Background Copilot has been a major pillar of Microsoft's Windows strategy since it began shipping the assistant across Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems in 2023. Over successive updates...

TomTom and Microsoft have quietly rewired what "talking to your car" can mean, unveiling a generative AI‑powered, in‑vehicle voice assistant built on Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service and positioned as a brand‑ownable, OEM‑friendly alternative to phone‑linked assistants and fragmented in‑car systems. Background For years, in‑car voice systems promised convenience but often delivered frustration: rigid command grammars, poor multi‑step handling, and a patchwork of phone‑based assistants that...

If your Logitech C270 webcam shows a black screen on Windows 10, you’re not alone — this is a common, solvable problem that ranges from simple settings and driver hiccups to deeper interactions between Windows’ media stack and third‑party software. This feature walks through what the C270 is, why black‑screen problems occur on Windows 10, a prioritized, battle‑tested troubleshooting checklist, advanced diagnostics and mitigations (including safe registry and driver fallbacks), buying and...

Linux can actually rescue a tired, noisy laptop from the brink of retirement — and keep it running smoothly for years — if you pick the right distribution, manage updates sensibly, and tune the system for low overhead. The How‑To Geek piece that inspired this report describes exactly that: an old PC that choked under Windows 11 was wiped and re‑installed with an Arch‑based distro plus the Hyprland tiling compositor, and the result was quieter fans, lower idle RAM and CPU use, modern packages...

A recent side-by-side comparison that installed Windows XP through Windows 11 on identical Lenovo ThinkPad X220 laptops produced a counterintuitive headline: on that vintage hardware, Windows 11 performed worse than its predecessors in many everyday tasks, while Windows 8.1 emerged as the snappiest middle ground. The test—conducted by a community tester and covered broadly in the press—measured cold boot times, idle memory footprint, application launch latency, browser tab density, file- and...

Microsoft has quietly handed IT teams a supported, targeted way to remove the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices — but it’s deliberately conservative, gated by specific conditions, and designed as a one‑time cleanup tool rather than a permanent fleet‑wide ban. The capability appears in the Windows 11 Insider Preview (Build 26220.7535 / KB5072046) as a new Group Policy named RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp; it uninstalls the consumer Copilot front end only when strict...

BrowserOS’s incremental update cycle continues to shape the emerging category of “agentic” browsers — the project’s recent 0.36.x milestones (Neowin’s short listing for 0.36.2 prompted this look) are another signal that BrowserOS is maturing quickly as a privacy‑first Chromium fork that runs AI agents locally and targets users who want automation inside the browser, not telemetry-driven cloud services. Background / Overview BrowserOS is an open‑source, Chromium‑based browser built expressly...

China’s low-cost, open-source AI models have triggered a quiet but consequential shift in enterprise AI procurement: many businesses are choosing models such as Alibaba’s Qwen and the newcomer DeepSeek for production workloads because they are dramatically cheaper — and in some cases effectively free — while delivering “good enough” capability for a wide range of practical tasks. This movement, documented by a major empirical study of real-world token usage and reflected in comments from...

Microsoft's latest push to make artificial intelligence a constant, inbox-ready companion at work has arrived in the form of Microsoft 365 Chat, the conversational face of Microsoft 365 Copilot that promises to be the modern, far more capable successor to the era of Clippy — minus the paperclip and a lot more context awareness. Overview Microsoft 365 Chat (formerly known in early previews as Business Chat) is a conversational interface layered on top of Microsoft 365 and Windows experiences...

Today you’ll get a complete, practical guide (history, verification, and a step‑by‑step “solved” procedure) to get an ATI/AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4200 working on Windows 10 — plus the verification of the key claims and the sources I used. Read this before trying any driver hacks: it explains the safe path, the advanced (risky) path, and the long‑term recommendation. Summary / TL;DR AMD considers the HD 4200 family legacy and stopped active driver releases after the Windows 7 / Windows 8 era...

WhatsApp’s Windows client has quietly been recast as a Chromium-based web wrapper and the fallout is now visible in everyday use: a substantially higher memory footprint, weaker Windows integration, and a small but growing movement of users who are sideloading older native builds to get the lean client back. What began as staged beta changes has turned into a broad rollout for many users, and the practical consequences—spiking RAM, choppier UI, and forced re‑auth flows—have prompted hands‑on...