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Microsoft’s push to make “every Windows 11 PC an AI PC” has put Copilot at the center of the desktop experience — but for many users and administrators the companion is more intrusive than helpful, and there are now multiple, documented ways to hide, disable, or remove Copilot depending on your needs and Windows edition. Background Microsoft has steadily folded Copilot into Windows 11, surfacing it as a taskbar button, a keyboard shortcut, context‑menu entries (Ask Copilot), and embedding...

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence’s Incubation and Entrepreneurship Center has launched a new, builder‑first showcase — Build It Demo Day — that aims to convert classroom projects and early prototypes into investable conversations and tangible startup trajectories inside Abu Dhabi’s fast‑maturing AI ecosystem. Background / Overview Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) was founded with a narrow, high‑impact mission: to produce the next...

Windows 10’s end-of-support did more than close a chapter — it created a deadline that turned longstanding indecision into urgent action, and Zorin OS 18 surfed that tidal shift with a carefully timed release, a migration‑focused feature set, and a public metrics splash that caught mainstream attention. Within days of Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 cutoff, Zorin Group reported a six‑figure download milestone for Zorin OS 18 and said roughly 72% of those downloads originated from Windows...

The search control on Windows 11 isn’t a freely movable widget — it’s a configurable taskbar item you can hide, shrink to an icon, or show as a full text box — and for users who want to place the search field anywhere else on the screen, reliable third‑party tools can restore or extend placement options at the cost of added maintenance and potential compatibility risk. Background / Overview Windows 11 centralizes key desktop elements in a redesigned taskbar, and Microsoft exposes four...

Microsoft has acknowledged and begun to address a disruptive bug that in some instances prevents the classic Outlook for Windows from launching — an error that leaves affected Microsoft 365 users locked out of the desktop client — but its official guidance still lists Outlook Web Access (OWA) and the new Outlook for Windows as primary workarounds, a recommendation that reignites debate because many users and admins consider the new Outlook not yet ready to replace the classic client in...

Microsoft’s KB5017130 makes one thing plain for administrators: if a Windows 11 device’s hardware doesn’t meet Microsoft’s minimum requirements, users may see a persistent “System requirements not met. Go to Settings to learn more.” watermark on the desktop and a matching notification in Settings — and IT teams can control or suppress that message centrally using Group Policy or MDM tools. Background Microsoft introduced strict minimum hardware requirements for Windows 11 (TPM 2.0...

Microsoft’s October cumulative for Windows 11 broke a foundational developer expectation — the ability for a machine to “talk to itself” via localhost — and the fallout exposed both a kernel‑level regression in the Windows HTTP stack and the blunt choices IT teams faced between security and productivity when emergency fixes arrive mid‑rollout. Background / Overview On October 14, 2025 Microsoft shipped the October Patch Tuesday cumulative update for Windows 11 (identified as KB5066835), a...

The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has taken a number of its services offline after a global Windows 11 patch triggered a systemic failure that prevented locally hosted applications from connecting to the loopback interface, compounding an already serious outage for court and case-management systems while Microsoft works to roll back and repair the offending update. Background / Overview On October 14, 2025, Microsoft shipped the October cumulative update for Windows 11...

Adding WinZip to the right‑click context menu in Windows 11 turns routine zipping and unzipping into a two‑click habit and restores a small but meaningful slice of desktop productivity that many power users miss. This deep‑dive tutorial covers three practical methods — the built‑in WinZip settings (GUI), WinZip’s repair/reinstall steps, and advanced registry edits — and explains why WinZip items sometimes vanish in Windows 11, how to recover them, the security risks to watch for, and safe...

TotalEnergies’ decision to move from pilots to production with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio is not a ceremonial IT upgrade — it’s an explicit, company-wide bet on agentic AI as a productivity and operational lever, blending large-scale employee acculturation, low‑code agent creation, and strict governance to deliver measurable maintenance, procurement and process improvements across the industrial stack. Background / Overview The recent wave of enterprise AI tooling from...

The internet’s backbone cracked open this week when a major outage in Amazon Web Services’ largest region, US‑EAST‑1 (Northern Virginia), knocked thousands of customer applications offline and re‑ignited a debate about the systemic risks of hyperscale cloud concentration. What began as DNS resolution problems for Amazon’s DynamoDB service cascaded through internal EC2 subsystems and network load balancers, producing hours of service failures, delayed message backlogs and throttled recovery...

Real-time voice changing is no longer a gimmick — it’s a robust set of tools that can alter pitch, timbre, language, and character on the fly, enabling everything from playful Discord prankery to professional voiceover workflows and privacy-first communications. Background Voice modification software has matured rapidly in the last few years. What began as simple pitch shifters and chorus effects has evolved into several distinct technical approaches: traditional digital signal processing...

Microsoft has confirmed two separate regressions introduced after the October 14, 2025 cumulative update KB5066835 for Windows 11 — a smart‑card / certificate authentication regression tied to a cryptography enforcement change, and a damaging Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) regression that can render USB keyboards and mice unresponsive during recovery operations. Both issues were acknowledged on Microsoft’s Release Health pages and have produced immediate operational guidance, a...

Microsoft’s new Xbox-styled full‑screen Windows 11 image for the ROG Xbox Ally X has been publicly outpaced by a SteamOS‑style Linux build in real‑world handheld gaming tests, with community demonstrations reporting up to ~30% higher sustained frame rates in shader‑heavy titles and noticeably smoother frame‑time behavior. Background / Overview The ROG Xbox Ally X is ASUS and Microsoft’s headline entry in the latest wave of premium Windows handhelds: a 7‑inch, 1080p, 120 Hz device built...

If you want to move from click-and-wander to true Windows 11 fluency, learning a compact set of high‑value keyboard shortcuts is the single fastest productivity upgrade you can make — these 17 keystrokes cover window and desktop management, capture and sharing, file work, accessibility, and a handful of system tools you’ll use dozens of times a day. Mastering them turns slow mouse hunts into instant actions and makes multi‑window workflows feel effortless. Background Windows has shipped with...

Microsoft is moving a significant set of Windows 11 refinements out of the experimental labs and into the Release Preview channel: a redesigned Start menu, Taskbar polish (including a new, color-coded battery icon and the ability to show battery percentage), File Explorer upgrades with a Recommended feed and Copilot hooks, plus a raft of accessibility and on-device AI improvements. The build now in Release Preview packages these changes as a staged feature drop that Microsoft plans to flip...

A landmark pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot across roughly 90 NHS organisations has produced headline figures that demand serious attention: participants in the trial reported an average saving of 43 minutes per staff member per working day, and sponsors modelled that a full roll‑out could reclaim up to 400,000 hours of staff time every month—numbers the Department of Health and Social Care and Microsoft have both used to frame AI as a practical lever to reduce administrative burden and free...

Asus’ ROG Xbox Ally X delivers a genuinely next‑generation handheld experience, and an enthusiast comparison shows it can run noticeably better on a SteamOS‑style Fedora build — Bazzite OS — than on the factory Windows 11 image, with improvements in sustained frame‑rates, frame‑time consistency and suspend/resume behavior that are large enough to matter in real play. Background The ROG Xbox Ally X is ASUS’ premium Windows handheld built around AMD’s high‑end handheld APU class (marketed as a...

The South African Department of Justice and Constitutional Development confirmed its systems were disrupted by a global Windows 11 fault tied to a recent Microsoft security update, joining a growing list of public and private organisations grappling with recovery problems after the October 2025 Patch Tuesday rollout. The disruption left some Windows 11 workstations and recovery tools effectively unusable until Microsoft issued an out‑of‑band patch to address a flaw in the Windows Recovery...

Microsoft issued an out‑of‑band Windows 11 update — KB5070773 — on October 20, 2025 to repair a high‑impact regression that left USB keyboards and mice unusable inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) after the October 14, 2025 cumulative (KB5066835), and administrators and home users alike should install and validate the patch immediately. Background / Overview Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 cumulative update (KB5066835) contained security and quality fixes for Windows 11 but...