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Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel preview for Windows 11—delivered as KB5077230 and shipped as Insider Preview Build 28020.1619—pushes continuity and accessibility forward in ways that matter for day‑to‑day productivity: Cross‑Device Resume gains real, practical Android‑to‑PC handoff scenarios (Spotify playback, Copilot‑opened Microsoft 365 files, certain phone browsers), while Narrator receives fine‑grained personalization controls that let screen‑reader users decide what information is...

For weeks in late January and early February 2026, Microsoft’s flagship productivity assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot, quietly indexed and summarized Outlook messages that organizations had explicitly labeled Confidential, effectively bypassing configured Purview sensitivity labels and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protections — a failure Microsoft tracked internally as service advisory CW1226324 and later patched with a server‑side fix. Background Microsoft 365 Copilot is marketed as an...

OpenAI’s freshly announced, multi‑year infrastructure pact with Amazon — a headline-grabbing commitment worth roughly $38 billion — is more than a single vendor win: it completes OpenAI’s strategic shift from one dominant cloud partner to a diversified, multi‑hyperscaler compute architecture, and it redraws the map for AI infrastructure, chip procurement, and cloud competition. Background How we got here OpenAI’s commercial success with ChatGPT triggered a tidal wave of compute demand that...

Microsoft’s recent slide has left value hunters and AI skeptics facing the same paradox: a company that looks unassailable on long-term fundamentals is being re-priced today because investors are wrestling with the short-term economics of AI infrastructure and the headaches of capacity, margins, and concentrated customer exposure. Background Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has spent the last two years positioning itself as the enterprise’s go-to supplier of AI-capable cloud infrastructure, software...

Microsoft’s gaming organization entered a dramatic new chapter this week when Phil Spencer, the architect of Xbox’s modern era, announced his retirement and Satya Nadella tapped Asha Sharma — a senior Microsoft AI executive — to lead Microsoft Gaming. The move replaces a long‑standing, games‑first leadership model with one headed by an executive steeped in CoreAI product and platform work, and it comes with an immediate reshuffle: Matt Booty is promoted to Chief Content Officer, and Xbox...

If you’re paying a yearly subscription for a password manager mainly because it looks nicer, it’s time to ask whether that polished interface is worth the ongoing cost — especially when a fully capable, open-source alternative exists that covers the essentials for free. Bitwarden’s free tier now delivers the core security and convenience most users need: unlimited logins, unlimited devices, cross-device sync, passkey management, and the option to self-host. For many people, that means the...

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Jena Zangs’s short, practical recommendation — summarize before you upload — is the clearest, most actionable piece of AI safety advice a campus administrator can hear right now. As universities rush to fold generative AI into advising, administration, research and classroom workflows, the single, recurring vulnerability is not always the algorithm: it’s the data we feed into it. Zangs, chief data and AI officer at the University of St. Thomas, told University Business that administrators...

Phil Spencer’s decision to step away from Microsoft marks the end of a defining chapter for Xbox and the broader gaming business he helped build, and it ushers in an abrupt leadership reset that places an AI executive at the head of a highly creative, performance‑sensitive industry. After nearly 38 years at Microsoft and twelve years leading Xbox and Microsoft Gaming, Spencer is retiring; Satya Nadella has tapped Asha Sharma — the company’s president of CoreAI product — to run Microsoft...

Microsoft’s Copilot is moving from a corner of Windows into the places people actually work: recent Insider previews and Microsoft demonstrations reveal new Copilot entry points on the Windows 11 taskbar and inside File Explorer, including an “Ask Copilot” composer, taskbar-visible AI agents that run in the background, a floating “Share with Copilot” affordance for handing open windows to Copilot Vision, and a docked (and detachable) Copilot chat surface inside File Explorer itself...

If you spend any time in comment threads or scrolling social feeds, you could be forgiven for thinking that Windows 11 is an unmitigated disaster — a chunky, unstable experiment pushed out before it was ready. The louder narratives focus on printer breakages, Start menu hiccups, and extended runs of cumulative updates that feel like they create more work than they fix. But taken in context — historically, technically, and at ecosystem scale — the reality is more complicated. Windows 11 is...

If your organization still runs Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10 Enterprise / IoT Enterprise 2016 LTSB, you need an urgent, concrete plan: these 2016 releases are reaching their final support milestones and will stop receiving regular security updates unless you take action before the deadlines. Background Microsoft’s fixed-lifecycle products released in 2016 are entering the last phase of their support lifecycles. Specifically: Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise...

Microsoft hasn’t said “Windows 12” on stage, but the evidence — from Microsoft’s Copilot messaging and Copilot+ PC specs to emulator improvements, analyst market forecasts, and leaked Windows build strings — converges on a clear picture: the next major Windows milestone will be an AI-first, hardware-accelerated, and more modular OS that ships features continuously rather than in one monolithic jump. erview The conversation about a successor to Windows 11 stopped being pure rumor some time...

Microsoft is rolling out automatic local backups for OneNote on iOS devices starting in mid‑March 2026, a change designed to give mobile-first users a self‑service recovery option that mirrors the desktop backup experience and to reduce dependency on IT for basic notebook restores. Background OneNote has long offered platform‑specific backup behavior: the Windows desktop version includes automatic and manual local backups, and the macOS client supports a limited backup model. Mobile versions...

Microsoft’s gaming business entered a new chapter on February 20, 2026, when Satya Nadella tapped Asha Sharma, a senior Microsoft AI executive, to lead Xbox and the broader Microsoft Gaming organization—while long‑time leader Phil Spencer announced his retirement and Xbox president Sarah Bond resigned. The move was accompanied by a rapid internal reshuffle that promoted Matt Booty to Executive Vice President and Chief Content Officer and a public pledge from the new leadership to “recommit...

LibreOffice has gone on the offensive — not just at Microsoft but at a fellow office-suite vendor — accusing ONLYOFFICE of being “fake open‑source” and partnering with Microsoft in a way that, LibreOffice says, reinforces format-based vendor lock‑in for users and governments alike. The Document Foundation (TDF) lays the charge in a recent post that reopens the long, bruising fight over document standards and places the debate about openness and interoperability squarely in the center of...

NetSpeedMonitor still lives in the memory of many Windows users as the tiny, no‑nonsense taskbar meter that put upload and download speeds front and center — and for Windows 10 (64‑bit) users who want that simple readout, it’s still a viable option, but only with clear caveats: the original project is effectively dormant, modern Windows limits third‑party taskbar toolbars, and getting a safe, working copy often means using community forks or compatibility‑mode workarounds...

Microsoft’s tiny, indestructible Notepad — the app millions of Windows users open for quick edits, config fixes, and pasted snippets — is showing signs that it’s about to support inline images, a surprising development that widens Notepad’s remit from minimalist text scratchpad to a lightweight Markdown-capable note authoring surface. Evidence for the change first surfaced in Windows Insider screenshots and “What’s new” release panels, and multiple outlets and Insider chatter now report an...

Microsoft’s Copilot emerged as the clear favorite in Android Central’s recent reader poll — a decisive result that surprised many because broader usage and traffic data paint a much more complicated picture of which AI chatbots people actually use in the wild. Background Android Central asked its readers which AI chatbot they prefer, and of the more than 1,600 respondents, 61% selected Microsoft Copilot, with Google’s Gemini at 17% and OpenAI’s ChatGPT at 8%. The story included a selection...

Microsoft’s newest Canary‑channel flight for Windows 11, build 28020.1619, delivers a substantial set of continuity and accessibility updates—most notably an expanded Cross‑Device Resume experience that finally begins to feel like a practical, Android‑to‑PC “handoff,” alongside meaningful improvements to Narrator, Voice Typing, Voice Access, and Windows Hello sign‑in security. The release broadens who and what can resume across devices, introduces finer user control for screen‑reading and...