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Sam Altman’s recent framing of the coming AGI moment — that it will “come, it will go whooshing by” and won’t feel like the cinematic singularity many expect — has reopened a high‑stakes debate about preparedness, governance, and what “adaptation” really looks like when a technology reshapes civilization at speed. The remark is less an exercise in complacency than a challenge: the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI) may be sudden in technical terms, messy in societal...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, is more than a nostalgic wink to Clippy — it’s a deliberate attempt to recast the company’s AI assistant as a sociable, voice-first companion that remembers, argues back, and joins group conversations across Windows and Edge, while Microsoft walks a tightrope between engagement and responsibility. Background For decades Microsoft has experimented with embodied digital assistants — from the earnest but intrusive paperclip known as Clippy to the...

Microsoft’s new Copilot Mode expansion and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas landed within days of each other, forcing a showdown that treats the web browser not as a passive renderer of pages but as the central surface for agentic AI that can remember, act, and — crucially — take on multi‑step work for users. The announcements (OpenAI’s Atlas on October 21, 2025, and Microsoft’s Copilot Mode updates on October 23, 2025) are more than product releases: they are competing visions for how people will...

The new era of Copilot has arrived as a platform, not just a feature, and it’s now reachable from nearly every surface where people work: a web hub, dedicated mobile and desktop apps, built‑in Windows affordances, Microsoft 365 in‑app panes, and browser integrations that keep the assistant at your fingertips no matter which device you use. This piece maps where Copilot is accessible, explains the different delivery models and license paths, identifies the management and privacy controls IT...

If you spend any meaningful time at the Windows command line, installing itmux will change how you work — not because it reinvents the terminal, but because it brings real tmux-style session persistence, SSH convenience, and Unix-style ergonomics to Windows in a single, lightweight bundle. Background / Overview For decades Windows has offered a capable graphical shell for most tasks, and the Windows Terminal modernized the console experience with tabs, profiles, GPU-accelerated rendering...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot can and does capture screenshots of gameplay and extract on‑screen text — and, according to hands‑on network captures and multiple reports, those captures can be uploaded to Microsoft for cloud processing and, unless toggled off, may be eligible for model training by default. Background Microsoft introduced Gaming Copilot as a multimodal, in‑overlay assistant inside the Xbox Game Bar (Win + G) to give players real‑time help without leaving the game. The feature...

In a sweeping judgment that shifts the ground under the modern app economy, the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has found that Apple abused its dominant position in the distribution of iPhone and iPad apps, ruling that the company’s App Store commissions were excessive and that affected consumers are entitled to damages — a decision that could expose Apple to payouts in the region of £1.5 billion and reshape how app platforms operate in Europe and beyond. Background The case was...

Microsoft’s Copilot Fall Update pushes Edge further from “browser plus AI” toward a single, integrated AI-powered browser designed to reason across tabs, perform multi-step web tasks, and remember project context — and it ships two headline features that will change how many people use the web: Copilot Actions (agentic, permissioned automations) and Journeys (resumable, AI-curated browsing workspaces). Background Microsoft has been embedding Copilot across Windows, Office, and Edge as part...

Microsoft has given Copilot a visible personality: an animated, customizable avatar named Mico that listens, emotes, and — if you poke it enough — briefly transforms into the legendary paperclip, Clippy. Background / Overview Microsoft introduced Mico at its Fall Copilot Sessions event, positioning the avatar as the most visible symbol of a broader Copilot update that pushes the assistant from a text box to a persistent, multimodal companion. The rollout began in the United States and will...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, is the most visible symbol of a larger strategic pivot: turn a reactive Q&A engine into a socially aware, voice-first assistant while avoiding the UX mistakes that made Clippy infamous. The rollout bundles Mico with group sessions, a “Real Talk” mode that will push back rather than agree reflexively, long‑term memory with explicit controls, and browser agent capabilities — a set of features that lift Copilot from a single‑user chatbot to a persistent...

Microsoft’s new AI persona, Mico, arrives as a distinctly non‑threatening face for Copilot — a responsive, color‑shifting orb intended to make voice and conversational AI feel friendlier and more human without repeating the mistakes of the past. Background Microsoft unveiled Mico during its Copilot fall update, positioning the new avatar as the expressive visual companion for Copilot’s voice mode. The move marks a deliberate shift away from purely faceless interfaces and toward an animated...

Azure’s Storage Mover now supports direct cloud-to-cloud migrations from AWS S3 to Azure Blob Storage, delivering a fully managed, agentless path for moving large object stores into Azure with built-in orchestration, incremental sync, and observability—an offering that could reshape how organizations approach multicloud consolidation and large-scale data migrations. Background Cloud strategies continue to diverge: some organizations embrace multicloud for resilience and best-of-breed...

If you've ever pressed a screenshot shortcut in Windows and then wondered where the resulting image went, you're not alone — Windows offers multiple capture methods and each one treats the resulting image differently, sometimes copying only to the clipboard and other times writing a timestamped file straight to disk. The behavior depends on which shortcut or tool you used and how your system (or IT policy) is configured, but once you know the rules it's straightforward to find, change, and...

If you’ve ever taken a screenshot on Windows and then stared at your desktop wondering where that file went, you’re not alone — Windows provides several capture methods and each one can save images in a different place (or not save a file at all), depending on which shortcut or tool you use and how your system is configured. Overview Windows 10 and Windows 11 include multiple, overlapping ways to capture your screen: the legacy Print Screen (PrtScn) key, Alt + PrtScn, Windows + PrtScn, the...

Microsoft’s PowerToys has quietly shipped a targeted hotfix — version 0.95.1 — that addresses the most abrasive complaints since the 0.95 release, most notably the Light Switch behavior that was unintentionally flipping users’ themes, along with a clutch of stability and installer improvements that make the suite safer to run on both Windows 11 and Windows 10 machines. Background PowerToys is Microsoft’s community-driven toolkit for power users, bundling small but powerful utilities such as...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, is Microsoft’s most visible attempt in years to give artificial intelligence a friendly face — a deliberately abstract, non‑photoreal visual companion designed to make voice and group interactions feel less awkward while avoiding the intrusive mistakes that made Clippy a UX pariah. Early previews and company messaging frame Mico as an optional, role‑scoped UI layer for voice-first tutoring and small‑group facilitation that sits on top of the Copilot...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot Fall Release is less a traditional feature dump and more a strategic repositioning: 12 headline capabilities that recast Copilot from a query tool into an AI companion built to remember, facilitate group work, act across apps, and — importantly — serve as a new surface for advertising and commerce across Microsoft’s ecosystem. Background / Overview Microsoft rolled out the Copilot Fall Release on October 23, 2025, positioning the update as a human‑centered shift...

Microsoft’s latest push to make the browser feel less like a passive tool and more like a thinking partner arrives in Edge as Copilot Mode, and at the center of that pitch is a feature called Journeys — a contextual memory layer that groups past browsing activity into task-focused projects so you can “pick up right where you left off.” The new mode is opt‑in, emphasizes explicit permission for using your browsing context, and is rolling out as a limited preview in the U.S. while Microsoft...

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a face, a voice, and a suite of social features designed to make it act less like a search box and more like a teammate: the new avatar Mico, an optional real talk conversational mode, shared Copilot Groups for up to 32 people, richer memory and personalization, and deeper connectors to Outlook, OneDrive, Gmail, Drive and Calendar. Microsoft positions this package as the Copilot Fall Release — a deliberate pivot from single-user Q&A toward a persistent...

Microsoft has given Copilot a personality: an animated, customizable avatar called Mico joins a major Fall update that also adds long‑term memory, shared group sessions, new connectors, a Socratic “Learn Live” tutor, and deeper agent‑style capabilities in Microsoft Edge — a package that recasts Copilot from a text widget into a social, persistent assistant that can remember, act, and emote. Background Microsoft has been steadily evolving Copilot from a sidebar helper into a cross‑platform...