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Microsoft says the irritating “missing” clips in Windows 11’s Clipboard History usually aren’t a mysterious data leak or malware — they’re the result of two interacting design choices: an asynchronous notification model for clipboard changes, and the use of delayed rendering by applications. When those two collide — for example, when you copy several things very fast or when an app promises clipboard data but takes too long to produce it — the native history can skip items or return nothing...

Microsoft has quietly turned Windows 11’s on-device AI into a versioned, trackable set of components — publishing a dedicated “Release information for AI components” page and beginning to treat models and runtimes as first-class, independently updated parts of the OS. Background Microsoft’s recent servicing approach for Windows has been shifting from monolithic monthly cumulative updates to a more componentized model. That change is now visible in how on-device AI is managed: instead of...

It’s still possible in 2026 to download an official, unmodified Windows 10 ISO directly and safely—if you use the right Microsoft pages or, when you need more control or archival builds, a trusted UUP Dump workflow—while taking a few verification and security precautions before you write the image to a USB stick or spin up a virtual machine. Background / Overview Microsoft formally ended mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025; after that date Home and Pro no longer receive...

A methodical speed test that installed Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8.1, 10 and 11 on identical Lenovo ThinkPad X220 machines—then ran a mix of real‑world and synthetic benchmarks—produced a headline-grabbing result: on that vintage hardware Windows 11 finished near the bottom while Windows 8.1 emerged as the snappiest, exposing a clash between modern OS design assumptions and legacy hardware realities. Background / Overview The experiment at the center of this story used a deliberately constrained...

I’m a fan of AI, but the cheerful honeymoon phase where advanced generative models felt like free, magical helpers is over — and for ordinary users and IT buyers that means real sticker shock is coming. The message in a recent opinion piece is blunt: AI features are being folded into everyday apps and subscriptions, and the companies building them are increasingly moving costs and pricing complexity onto customers. This is already visible in Microsoft’s Copilot rollouts and subscription...

When a technical team sits down to write a spec, produce API docs, or capture runbooks, the choice between a Markdown-first editor and a traditional word processor is not a matter of taste — it changes how the team writes, reviews, and ships work. Background The competition between modern, developer-oriented editors and the legacy word processor is now a practical decision for engineering organizations and documentation teams. On one side sits HackMD, a lightweight, online, Markdown-first...

Satya Nadella’s short, deliberately conversational blog post — published on his new personal page branded “sn scratchpad” — asks the tech industry to move beyond spectacle and to stop reducing AI’s value to viral demos or meme-ready failures. He calls 2026 a pivotal year not because models will suddenly become flawless, but because the hard work of turning capabilities into dependable, measurable benefits must now begin in earnest. Background The cultural backdrop: “slop,” public fatigue...

Microsoft’s Copilot Vision is taking another step toward becoming a literal desktop assistant: a new “Share with Copilot” control that appears when you hover over an app on the Windows 11 taskbar lets Copilot see and analyze the contents of that app, offering context‑aware suggestions such as drafting an email reply in Outlook, extracting tables for Excel, or pointing out where to click — all while remaining session‑bound and opt‑in. Overview Microsoft has been steadily moving Copilot from a...

The story that "Microsoft Office has been rebranded to Microsoft 365 Copilot" is true in headline form but misleading in practice: Microsoft renamed its central Microsoft 365 (Office) hub to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app — a container and gateway that surfaces Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Copilot experiences — but it did not retire the Word/Excel/PowerPoint product names or wipe the Office brand from every Microsoft product. Background Microsoft’s productivity brand has changed names multiple...

CES 2026 opened with a familiar kind of hardware headline: 8BitDo has pushed its customization-first strategy into the premium Xbox‑licensed space with the new 8BitDo Ultimate 3E Controller for Xbox, a fully modular, pro‑grade gamepad that pairs TMR magnetic sticks, Hall‑effect impulse triggers, swappable button modules and a wireless charging dock with a claimed 1000Hz polling capability on PC — and a $149.99 retail target for Q2 2026. Background 8BitDo built its reputation on flexible...

HP’s CES 2026 reveal of the EliteBoard G1a collapses an entire Copilot+ AI PC into a standard office keyboard, promising to turn a desk accessory into a portable, IT-manageable workstation that “moves” where the user works while delivering local AI acceleration that would normally require a tower or laptop. Background / Overview HP introduced the EliteBoard G1a at CES 2026 as part of a broader push to rethink desktop setups for hybrid work. The company bills the EliteBoard as the “world’s...

Microsoft’s decision to recast the familiar Office entry point as the “Microsoft 365 Copilot” app has re‑ignited a debate that cuts across product design, corporate strategy, and user privacy — and the fallout is instructive for anyone who cares about how AI gets packaged and deployed inside the Windows ecosystem. The rename is real, the Copilot features are real, and the privacy questions that followed are real — but the facts matter, and the nuance is what will determine whether this...

The internet exploded with a single screenshot this week: it showed Office.com greeting visitors with the line “The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office) lets you create, share, and collaborate all in one place with your favorite apps now including Copilot,” and the reaction was immediate — claims that Microsoft had quietly “renamed Office to Copilot” trended across X, Reddit, Bluesky, and LinkedIn. The headline conclusion is simple: Microsoft did not rename Word, Excel, and PowerPoint...

Microsoft’s Edge browser is quietly wearing Copilot’s clothes: test builds in the Canary and Dev channels show a Copilot‑inspired visual overhaul that applies the assistant’s color palette, fonts and softer geometry to Edge’s settings, context menus and new‑tab surfaces — and that visual unification is already provoking a vocal backlash under the meme label “Microslop.” Background Microsoft has been folding its Copilot branding and capabilities across its product family for more than a year...

The story you’ve seen on social feeds this week — that “Microsoft Office was renamed to Microsoft 365 Copilot” — is true in headline form but misleading in context: Microsoft did rename the Microsoft 365 app to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, and that change began rolling out on January 15, 2025, but it was a targeted app rebrand that happened nearly a year ago and not a wholesale erasure of the Office brand across every product. Background Microsoft’s long-running productivity suite has...

Microsoft is reintroducing a compact, interactive meeting surface to the Windows taskbar: an Agenda view that surfaces upcoming calendar events and one‑tap meeting actions directly from the Notification Center, with built‑in hooks for Microsoft 365 Copilot and meeting prep — arriving first in a Windows Insider preview slated for December 2025. Background When Windows 11 first launched, Microsoft redesigned the taskbar and Notification Center and removed the quick, glanceable agenda that...

Windows 11 has quietly — and deliberately — recast itself as a platform built around play, stacking system-level features, developer tooling, and a console-like user experience to make the PC the place to game. What began as a set of headline features like Auto HDR and DirectStorage has matured into a cross‑stack engineering push that includes a full‑screen, controller‑first shell, precompiled shader delivery, OS‑level AI upscaling, and scheduler and driver optimizations targeted at...

SanDisk has quietly retired the familiar WD_BLACK and WD Blue NVMe SSD badges and resurrected an old name — Optimus — as the new umbrella for its client SSD lineup, and with that change it introduced a compact, high-performance M.2 2230 drive built specifically for handheld gaming: the SanDisk Optimus GX 7100M. Background SanDisk’s decision to rebrand comes at an inflection point for both the company and the broader SSD market. After completing its separation from Western Digital in early...

AMD’s ROCm stack has quietly but substantially tightened its grip as a viable open-source alternative to NVIDIA’s CUDA, delivering a run of platform and developer-facing improvements that matter to cloud operators, AI researchers, and Windows users eager to run GPU-accelerated workloads outside the CUDA ecosystem. Background / Overview ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) has been AMD’s strategic answer to CUDA: an open-source software stack that spans drivers, runtime libraries, and developer tooling...

Samsung’s new 130-inch Micro RGB TV arrives at CES 2026 as a statement piece — not just in size but in ambition: a gallery‑style, AI‑driven display that redefines how the company talks about color, sound and what a living‑room screen should feel like. Background Samsung unveiled the R95H 130‑inch Micro RGB TV at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2026 in Las Vegas, positioning it as the company’s largest Micro RGB display to date and a flagship for a larger 2026 Micro RGB lineup. The...