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Microsoft’s latest push to move Windows 10 users onto new Copilot+ PCs has a fresh twist: Arm silicon is front and center. The company’s messaging now leans heavily into claims that the Arm ecosystem is mature — most apps people use today run natively on Arm — and positions Arm-powered Copilot+ laptops as the ideal migration path ahead of Windows 10’s end-of-support deadline. The headline numbers and marketing are bold, but the reality is more nuanced: there’s genuine progress on app...

The new OD teaser — a moody, P.T.-tinged vignette that dropped during Kojima Productions’ 10th‑anniversary stream — does more than tease a game: it makes a deliberate, high‑risk statement about where cinematic horror and modern game technology might collide. The three‑minute “Knock” trailer centers on Sophia Lillis performing a ritual in a sparsely furnished room, then spirals into physical and digital horror that leans heavily on Unreal Engine’s latest facial‑capture and MetaHuman...

Microsoft’s calendar-driven cutoff for Windows 10 updates has moved from background noise to an urgent reality, forcing millions of households, small businesses and public institutions into a compressed set of difficult choices: upgrade to Windows 11 where hardware permits, buy a one‑year safety net of security patches, replace aging hardware, or continue running increasingly risky, unsupported systems. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in 2015 and became the dominant desktop...

Microsoft’s deadline is real: on October 14, 2025, routine security and feature updates for mainstream Windows 10 editions stop — a hard cut that leaves millions of PCs exposed unless owners upgrade, enroll in Microsoft’s one‑year Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge, or adopt other mitigation strategies. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in 2015 and for a decade has been the default desktop OS for hundreds of millions of PCs. Microsoft set a firm lifecycle end date for the...

Microsoft has begun quietly recruiting Windows 11 users to join a new, opt‑in pilot called Windows AI Labs, an in‑OS sandbox for testing experimental AI capabilities that first showed up as a sign‑up prompt inside Microsoft Paint and has since been confirmed by Microsoft as a “pilot acceleration program” for validating novel AI ideas on Windows. This is not a typical Insider channel or a public beta — it’s a focused, consented feedback loop that combines on‑device and cloud AI experiments...

A buried option in a Windows 11 Insider preview suggests Microsoft is quietly restoring the ability to use ordinary video files — MP4, MKV and friends — as looping desktop wallpapers, a modern resurrection of Vista’s long‑forgotten DreamScene that’s already stirring enthusiasts, IT managers, and third‑party wallpaper developers alike. Background / Overview Microsoft’s experimental video‑wallpaper feature has been spotted inside recent Dev/Beta Insider builds identified in community reporting...

Satya Nadella’s public admission that artificial intelligence could run Microsoft into the ground — and that even long-standing franchises like Office and Windows may not be safe — is not a bogeyman headline but a strategic admission from the company’s CEO that the firm’s next decade will be shaped by deliberate cannibalization, cost trade‑offs and an all‑in bet on AI infrastructure and governance. That candid warning, voiced inside a company town hall and echoed in internal memos, reframes...

Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly creeping from assistant to agent inside Edge: a newly discovered hidden toggle called Browser Actions in the Copilot privacy settings suggests the browser could soon let Copilot act inside a user’s signed-in Edge profile — opening tabs, interacting with pages, filling forms, and executing multi-step workflows on the web with the same profile and credentials the user already uses. This UI change was first reported as a hidden setting in testing builds and...

Microsoft Copilot 365 is no longer a novelty—it's an operational inflection point for small and medium businesses that want to multiply productivity without multiplying headcount—and getting it right requires more than purchasing seats. A structured, practical adoption path that aligns business goals, secures data, trains people and measures outcomes will determine whether Copilot becomes a strategic accelerant or an expensive, under‑used feature. This guide expands the five-step framework...

Samsung's long-running alliance with Microsoft appears to be fraying at the edges: recent app code and multiple news reports indicate Samsung is preparing to remove OneDrive integration from the Galaxy Gallery app and shift photo backup duties back to Samsung Cloud, a move that would reverse a six-year arrangement and reshape how millions of Galaxy owners manage photo backups. Background Samsung and Microsoft launched a public, device-level partnership in 2019 that placed a suite of...

Microsoft has opened a new, low-profile channel for pushing experimental AI directly into Windows 11, launching a pilot program called Windows AI Labs that gives a small set of users early access to unreleased, on-device and hybrid AI features inside familiar apps like Paint. The initiative is being positioned as a rapid feedback loop — a way for Microsoft to validate bold AI ideas in real-world scenarios before wider release — and it signals a deliberate acceleration of AI integration...

Microsoft will stop issuing free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, leaving hundreds of millions of PCs exposed unless users take action — and forcing a swath of households, small businesses and public institutions to make an awkward choice between paying for a one‑year safety net, buying new hardware, or trusting third‑party fixes and alternative operating systems. Background Windows 10 launched in 2015 and has been Microsoft’s most widely deployed desktop operating...

Microsoft’s formal cutoff for Windows 10 updates has shifted from a distant lifecycle note to an immediate, high-stakes decision for millions of PC owners: routine security, feature, and quality updates stop on October 14, 2025, and the company’s response — a one‑year, narrowly scoped consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program plus targeted app servicing — leaves many households, small businesses and public organizations juggling security risk, privacy trade‑offs, and replacement...

Microsoft’s decision to end routine Windows 10 updates on October 14, 2025, has shifted from a lifecycle footnote into a practical crisis for millions of households, small businesses, and public institutions — and the deadline forces immediate choices about upgrades, paid bridges, or continued operation of increasingly exposed systems. Background / Overview Windows 10 debuted in 2015 and for a decade served as the dominant consumer and enterprise desktop platform. Microsoft has now fixed a...

The Walt Disney Company has ended a brief but explosive suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show, announcing that "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" will return to ABC on Tuesday after several days of private discussions between network executives and the host. The decision reverses a dramatic move that saw major ABC affiliates preempt the program, Federal Communications Commission leadership weigh in publicly, and hundreds of entertainment figures and unions mobilize in defense of free expression...

Microsoft is quietly testing a built‑in video wallpaper feature for Windows 11 that lets users set ordinary video files — MP4, MKV, MOV and others — as looping desktop backgrounds directly from Settings or via a contextual “Set as wallpaper” command in File Explorer, a revival of the old DreamScene idea with modern codecs, the compositor, and hardware decode in mind. Background Windows once offered a native animated wallpaper feature — DreamScene — as an Ultimate Extras add‑on for Windows...

BlueStacks is not the only way to run Android apps on a PC — and for many users it shouldn’t be the first place to look. The market now offers a wide range of alternatives that target different needs: lightweight emulators for older hardware, high-performance engines tuned for competitive mobile titles, developer-grade virtual devices, and full Android distributions that install alongside or replace Windows. The user-supplied roundup of eleven alternatives provides a solid starting point...

VLC’s long drought of user-visible updates has ended with a pragmatic, compatibility-focused release candidate: VLC 3.0.22 RC1 (Vetinari) — and for Windows on Arm users the headline is clear: VLC now ships native ARM64 builds for modern Windows machines, alongside a bundle of decoders, demuxers, UI updates, and security hardening intended to steady the 3.0.x branch while VLC 4.0 continues development. Background / Overview VLC 3.0, codenamed Vetinari, has been under active maintenance while...

Windows 11 keeps pushing AI onto your desktop — Copilot in the taskbar, Copilot in Office, and now a separate Microsoft 365 Copilot app — and for many users that feels like unwanted bloat. If you’d rather a clean, AI‑free Windows, this article walks through everything you need to know to hide, disable, or remove Copilot from a single PC or across a fleet, explains the technical tradeoffs, and flags what to watch for as Microsoft continues to change how Copilot is deployed and managed...

Microsoft has quietly begun inviting a subset of Windows users to test experimental AI features through a new opt‑in program called Windows AI Labs, an in‑OS pilot that first surfaced as a sign‑up prompt inside Microsoft Paint and which Microsoft describes as a “pilot acceleration program for validating novel AI feature ideas on Windows.” This marks a notable shift in how Microsoft stages pre‑release AI experiments: rather than relying solely on traditional Insider rings or server‑side...