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Microsoft has quietly folded generative AI into three of Windows 11’s most familiar utilities — Notepad, Photos (Designer), and Paint — surfacing Copilot-powered features that can generate text, edit and enhance images, and even animate or create new visuals from prompts. For casual users this is low-friction convenience; for IT teams and privacy officers it’s a new surface area that demands policy, testing, and awareness. Background / Overview Microsoft’s strategy over the past two years...

Microsoft’s formal end-of-support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 set off a cascade of practical decisions for small businesses this week — but it was far from the only story that should change how you plan technology, workflows, and cash flow. Google’s Gemini now does scheduling inside Gmail, Xero closed its Melio deal to fold automated accounts-payable into an accounting platform, Coinbase and Samsung widened crypto access via Samsung Wallet, and restaurant automation took another step...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday delivered a quiet but consequential set of Windows Recovery updates for Windows 10 while the same servicing cycle exposed a high‑impact regression in Windows 11’s recovery environment that left USB mice and keyboards unusable inside WinRE. The Windows 10 rollout includes the final WinRE dynamic updates — most notably KB5068164 and the Safe OS payload KB5067017 — intended to refresh WinRE images on running PCs and in deployment media, while Microsoft’s...

The Xbox Game Bar is a convenient, built‑in Windows 11 overlay for recording, performance monitoring, and quick access to audio and social tools — but when it’s not needed it can run as a persistent background process and introduce overlay conflicts or small CPU overhead. This feature piece walks through every practical path to disable, remove, repair, or re‑provision Xbox Game Bar on Windows 11, explains the tradeoffs, verifies the exact commands you’ll run, and highlights the recovery and...

Windows 11’s new experimental AI agents promise to do more than answer questions — they can act on your behalf, clicking, typing, navigating apps and touching local files — but convenience and time saved come with a new trust calculus that users and enterprises must confront immediately. Background / Overview Microsoft has rolled Copilot deeper into Windows 11: voice activation (“Hey, Copilot”), on‑screen context awareness (Copilot Vision), and an experimental agent runtime called Copilot...

“AI is Uganda’s last remaining hope” — Yumbe on the edge: campaign promises, border clashes and a plea for attention By [Your Name] On the dusty playgrounds of Geya Primary School in Yumbe District, President Yoweri Museveni’s recent campaign stop became a microcosm of competing hopes — for economic opportunity, administrative recognition, better services and, above all, security. Local leaders used the occasion not only to press the president for investments and a rethink of local...

Microsoft’s decade-long stewardship of Windows 10 has reached a hard stop as the company ended free mainstream security updates on October 14, 2025, and used the moment to pivot the Windows platform squarely toward an AI-first vision built around Copilot, voice activation, on‑screen intelligence and a new class of NPU‑equipped Copilot+ PCs. Background: the lifecycle milestone that changes the upgrade equation Microsoft set a firm lifecycle deadline for Windows 10 years ago; that timetable...

Windows 11’s right‑click menu has been a recurring gripe for power users and productivity-minded desktop veterans, and a lightweight, free utility called Nilesoft Shell promises not just a rollback or cosmetic patch, but a practical, highly configurable replacement that makes the context menu faster, cleaner, and — importantly — usable without sacrificing modern styling. Background Windows 11 replaced the long-familiar, full context menu with a compact, icon-first design that tucks many...

A Windows reinstall that should have been routine instead turned into a data nightmare: a user reported two 3TB backup drives became inaccessible after a fresh Windows install when BitLocker — or Windows’ automatic device encryption — locked them and demanded recovery keys that the user did not have, leaving large amounts of data effectively irretrievable unless the recovery keys were found. This incident shines a harsh light on how default encryption, tight TPM integration, and opaque...

Microsoft shipped a quiet — but consequential — set of Windows Recovery updates on Patch Tuesday that close out Windows 10’s maintenance window while also exposing a fresh reliability problem on Windows 11: final WinRE dynamic updates for Windows 10 (KB5068164 and the Safe OS packages such as KB5067017, KB5067016, KB5067015, KB5067018) were published alongside October’s cumulative rollups, and a related WinRE/WinPE dynamic update for Windows 11 appears to have regressed input handling in the...

Microsoft’s big-splash claim — that “Windows 11 PCs are up to 2.3× faster than Windows 10 PCs” — landed in a months‑long marketing push around the end‑of‑support deadline for Windows 10, but the assertion needs unpacking: it’s true in specific benchmark comparisons on modern hardware, and misleading if read as a guarantee that upgrading the OS alone will double or triple the speed of most existing PCs. Background / Overview Windows 10 reached the end of mainstream support on October 14...

Windows 11’s new Copilot Actions moves AI from suggestion to execution — but giving an agent permission to click, type, and rummage through your files changes the security calculus profoundly. Background / Overview Microsoft is previewing Copilot Actions for Windows 11: an agentic capability that can carry out multi‑step tasks on a user’s behalf by interacting with installed apps and local files. The feature is explicitly experimental and gated behind the Windows Insider and Copilot Labs...

Realme’s new 15 Pro lands as a refreshingly well-rounded mid‑ranger: a 6.8‑inch, 1.5K 144Hz AMOLED that pushes brightness and colour depth, a cavernous 7,000mAh battery with rapid 80W charging, and a camera stack led by a 50MP Sony sensor that leans hard on low‑light and AI features — all wrapped in a surprisingly light 187 g chassis. Background / Overview The Realme 15 Pro is positioned as one of Realme’s “AI Party Phone” models — a family pitched at users who want vivid screens, long...

Microsoft ha comenzado a desplegar una oleada de mejoras de inteligencia artificial en Windows 11 que elevan a Copilot de asistente complementario a una capa de interacción multimodal integrada en el sistema operativo, introduciendo voz manos libres, visión de pantalla ampliada y agentes experimentales que pueden actuar en tu nombre con permisos explícitos. Resumen ejecutivo En la actualización anunciada esta semana Microsoft consolidó tres pilares para convertir la PC en un “AI PC”: Copilot...

System Restore — Windows’ built‑in safety net — can quietly eat gigabytes of your system drive over time, and if you don’t check it regularly you may be sitting on recoverable space while assuming your disk is simply full. The feature is invaluable when you need to roll back a bad driver or botched update, but its default behavior (snapshots, shadow copies and automatic retention) combined with recent changes to retention policies means restore points can be both a lifesaver and a stealth...

Microsoft confirmed that the October 14, 2025 cumulative for Windows (KB5066835) introduced a regression that can render the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) unresponsive to USB keyboards and mice, leaving built‑in recovery tools inaccessible on affected systems. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped the October 14, 2025 cumulative update identified as KB5066835 for Windows 11 (and the corresponding rollups for supported Windows 10 servicing branches). The package is a combined...

Microsoft’s mid‑October push makes the moment unmistakable: as free mainstream security support for Windows 10 ends, Microsoft is simultaneously widening Windows 11’s lead with a major set of AI features built around Copilot — voice activation (“Hey, Copilot”), expanded on‑screen intelligence (Copilot Vision), experimental agentic workflows (Copilot Actions) and a new Copilot+ hardware tier that ties the highest‑performance experiences to neural processing units (NPUs). Background / Overview...

If you’re not ready to move to Windows 11, Microsoft has given Windows 10 users a one‑year lifeline: the consumer Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. It preserves delivery of critical and important security patches through 13 October 2026, while Microsoft stops normal, free security and feature updates for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025. The ESU path is intentionally narrow — security‑only updates, no new features or technical support — and it comes with specific eligibility...

ChatGPT’s dominance is no longer a one‑stop guarantee for every workflow: in 2025 the conversational AI market has fragmented into specialists — safety‑first reasoners, search‑native assistants, productivity copilots, and marketing engines — and businesses are increasingly choosing a best‑of‑breed stack rather than a single generalist. The result is a crowded, pragmatic landscape where price, data governance, context window size, agent capabilities, and integration with existing ecosystems...

Microsoft has flipped the switch: the Windows 11 2025 Update — formally Windows 11, version 25H2 — is now being offered broadly to eligible devices, but for most users it’s an evolutionary release rather than a dramatic overhaul. Background / Overview Windows 11, version 25H2 follows the same delivery pattern Microsoft used in recent years: the core platform updates were shipped incrementally across the 24H2 servicing stream, and 25H2 is primarily delivered as a small enablement package...