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Microsoft appears to be widening the canvas for Windows 11’s visual language and smoothing a long-standing friction point for hybrid web apps: the Acrylic “frosted glass” material will be usable in smaller, targeted regions of WinUI apps, and WebView2-based apps are receiving drag‑and‑drop reliability and performance improvements that make web apps behave far more like native Windows 11 programs. Background Windows 11 introduced a distinct visual toolkit—Fluent Design—that blends subtle...

If you need to wipe, refresh, or completely restore a Dell laptop running Windows 10, there are multiple safe, supported ways to do it — from the Settings app and Windows Recovery Environment to BIOS/SupportAssist tools and command-line tricks — and each path has trade‑offs you should understand before you proceed. The Windows Report “7 Ways to Factory Reset Your Dell Laptop on Windows 10” guide lays out the common user-facing options, but there are important technical details, gotchas, and...

Microsoft’s web-based Store has quietly gained a practical new convenience: a multi-app install workflow that lets you pick a curated set of Windows apps in your browser, download a tiny launcher, and have the Microsoft Store app on your PC fetch and install all selected titles in one go — a GUI-driven, store-backed alternative to one-off downloads and a friendly complement to winget for non-command-line users. Background Microsoft has been steadily modernizing the Microsoft Store for...

Shopify’s third-quarter numbers arrived like a punctuation mark — strong top-line growth, a powerful GMV rebound, and a wave of AI-driven product moves that prompted Morgan Stanley to lift its price target and keep the stock on dealers’ radar. Background / Overview Shopify has long presented itself as a platform business built on two complementary engines: Subscription Solutions (merchant plans and software tools) and Merchant Solutions (payments, checkout, shipping, and financing). That...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 preview release signals a notable shift in how Microsoft will deliver security fixes: a preview hotpatch that installs without forcing a system restart, promising less downtime for users and faster compliance for administrators while exposing new operational trade-offs for IT teams and power users. Background Microsoft has expanded a technology long used on Windows Server—hotpatching—into Windows 11 client servicing. Hotpatch updates are a subset of...

EaseUS’ latest Disk Copy 6.9.0 adds a single‑wizard “Migrate to Win11” mode that promises to clone a system disk and perform a Windows 11 upgrade on the target drive in one automated flow — including automated partition preparation, Windows 11 payload staging, and built‑in compatibility workarounds to proceed where official hardware checks (TPM, Secure Boot, CPU list) would otherwise block the upgrade. Background Windows users and small IT teams face a hard calendar constraint: Microsoft...

FlyOOBE’s latest public build — version 1.51.644 — continues the project’s steady evolution from a compact Windows 11 installer bypass into a full-featured Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) toolkit, folding the legacy Flyby11 upgrader into the main app, expanding the PowerShell‑based extensions engine, and addressing several high‑DPI UI issues that affected 4K and scaling levels above 200%. Background / Overview FlyOOBE (formerly Flyby11) began as a pragmatic community tool to let technically...

Microsoft’s console-style Full Screen Experience has finally arrived for MSI’s Claw handhelds via the Windows 11 Insider preview, offering a controller-first launcher, measurable runtime trimming, and modest frame‑rate gains — but it’s a preview feature with real-world caveats that owners should test cautiously before making it a daily driver. Background / Overview The Full Screen Experience (FSE) is a layered Windows 11 session posture that makes a chosen “home app” — typically the Xbox PC...

Sony has finally delivered the long‑promised cloud upgrade for the PlayStation Portal, turning the handheld from a Remote Play accessory into a true, stand‑alone streaming device for thousands of PS5 games — but the move rewrites assumptions about ownership, network hygiene, and where PlayStation fits in a cloud‑first gaming era. Background / Overview The PlayStation Portal debuted in late 2023 as a tethered Remote Play companion for PS5 owners. It relied on a paired PS5 to run titles while...

Microsoft has moved Copilot Mode out of the experimental lab and into Edge for all users, turning the browser into a permissioned, voice-enabled assistant that can read pages, reason across tabs, and — with explicit consent — perform multi-step tasks on the web. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot strategy has been a multi-year effort to make conversational AI a first-class part of everyday computing, threading Copilot across Windows, Microsoft 365, and Edge. What used to be isolated...

When you finish a fresh Windows 11 setup and are greeted by promotional suggestions, recommended apps, and “helpful” tips peppered through the UI, it feels like the operating system is selling you things before it lets you work — and that experience can be fixed in minutes by flipping a handful of built‑in toggles. This feature walks through the exact settings to make Windows 11 largely ad‑free, explains why those promotional surfaces exist, weighs the trade‑offs and risks of disabling them...

Microsoft’s Store is quietly offering a new convenience: build a bundle of apps in your browser, download a single small launcher, run it on a PC and have the Microsoft Store app fetch and install the selected titles — up to a curated limit — in one go. Background / Overview The Microsoft Store’s new “multi‑app install” capability appears as a web‑only workflow that exposes a curated grid of Store listings grouped into categories such as Productivity, Creativity, Social, Entertainment, Tools...

Napster’s announcement that it is among the first Microsoft partners to deploy Azure agentic AI for enterprises marks a clear milestone in the shift from experimental pilots to productized, low‑latency conversational agents that can be deployed at scale—and it asks enterprise IT teams to make hard choices about architecture, governance, and cost control before pressing “go.” Background / Overview Napster—formerly Infinite Reality—rebranded and repositioned itself earlier in 2025 as a...

Microsoft’s latest AI push folds two big moves into one clear strategic play: a multibillion-dollar, in-region infrastructure and partnership program in the United Arab Emirates that formalizes sovereign cloud and in‑country Copilot processing, and a rapid rollout of Nvidia’s Blackwell family of AI processors across Azure to give Microsoft the rack‑scale compute needed for next‑generation generative and reasoning workloads. The headlines — tens of thousands of Blackwell‑class GPUs headed to...

Apple’s rumored “cheap” MacBook — a smaller, aluminum‑chassis notebook powered by an A‑series chip and reportedly priced “well under $1,000” and shipping in the first half of 2026 — is shaping up to be more than just a rumor: it’s a plausible strategic gambit that could reshape the lower‑cost laptop battleground and force Windows OEMs and Microsoft to rethink how they defend the $500–$900 segment. Multiple journalist and supply‑chain reports now point to active testing and early production...

A cluster of new studies, conference papers, and high‑profile news stories has pushed the once‑abstract question—“Is ChatGPT changing how your brain works?”—into the center of public debate, and the early answer from the scientific literature is both urgent and nuanced: habitual reliance on large language models (LLMs) appears to reshape how people approach memory, problem solving, and language, but the magnitude, permanence, and population‑level consequences of those changes remain...

Samsung’s long-running mobile browser has finally landed on Windows PCs as a beta aimed squarely at Galaxy owners — and it brings the company’s Galaxy AI assistants, cross-device session sync, and a privacy-focused dashboard to the desktop for the first time. Background / Overview Samsung Internet started life as a mobile-first browser bundled with Galaxy phones and tablets. Over more than a decade it gained a reputation for strong privacy defaults, extension support on mobile, and deeper...

Windows 11 25H2 lands like a familiar, slightly busier living room: the furniture is largely the same as 24H2, but there are more accent pieces, streaming prompts, and an insistence that you adopt a certain lifestyle before you can sit down. For technicians and power users who prefer a calm, private workspace, the release has re‑ignited a practical workflow: clean the UI, reclaim control over AI hooks, and harden privacy without trashing updates or supportability. This feature‑by‑feature...

EaseUS’ Disk Copy 6.9.0 introduces a single‑wizard “Migrate to Win11” workflow that promises to clone a system drive to a new disk and upgrade that clone to Windows 11 in one automated sequence — including built‑in logic to bypass common Windows 11 hardware checks such as TPM and Secure Boot where required. Background / Overview The Windows 10 end‑of‑support date and the stricter hardware gates in Windows 11 forced many users and small IT teams into a short, practical problem: how to...

A sweeping, journalist‑led audit coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and operationally led by the BBC has found that mainstream AI assistants misrepresent news in an alarmingly high proportion of cases — roughly 45% of evaluated news answers contained at least one significant issue, and about 81% had some detectable problem when minor faults are included. This large, multilingual study tested consumer versions of ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Perplexity...