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Microsoft and NVIDIA have each brought an AI “sidekick” to PC gaming, but they’re built on different assumptions: Copilot for Gaming aims to be a cloud‑backed, account‑aware in‑game assistant that lives inside Windows’ Game Bar, while NVIDIA Project G‑Assist is an on‑device AI agent running on GeForce RTX hardware that can inspect and act on your PC’s telemetry. This feature‑level showdown examines where each assistant excels, where each falls short, and what every Windows gamer needs to...

Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot is moving beyond a physician‑centric pilot and into a partner‑driven, teamwide platform that Microsoft says will scale ambient and generative AI across care teams, partner applications, and new geographies — with early promises of reduced documentation burden, tighter EHR integration, and purpose‑built AI agents for clinical tasks. Background / Overview Dragon Copilot combines Microsoft’s established clinical speech technology with ambient capture and a fine‑tuned...

Microsoft has pushed one of the most consequential updates to Windows 11 in years: Copilot is moving from a sidebar helper to a system-level, multimodal assistant that listens, sees and — with explicit permission — can act on your behalf, bringing voice, vision and agentic automation to the heart of the OS. Background Microsoft frames the update around a simple promise: make every Windows 11 PC an “AI PC” by treating conversational input, visual context and delegated actions as first-class...

CTF Loader (ctfmon.exe) is a legitimate Windows component that quietly underpins handwriting, speech recognition, input method editors (IMEs), the language bar and the touch/virtual keyboard — but when it misbehaves it can cause spikes in CPU or memory, frequent crashes, or break typing in Start/Search boxes. This feature guide explains what CTF Loader does, why it sometimes causes trouble on Windows 10, how to diagnose whether the process is genuine or malicious, and a step‑by‑step...

Microsoft’s brief social tease this week — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday” — was no idle marketing flourish: it prefaced a substantial, AI‑first update that shifts Windows 11 toward voice and agentic interactions, tightly integrated with Microsoft Copilot and a set of hardware‑assisted features that will reshape how people interact with their PCs. Background Microsoft timed the tease amid a landmark moment for the platform...

Commodore’s comeback is aimed squarely at the moment Microsoft stops servicing Windows 10: the long‑dormant brand has repackaged a Debian‑based Linux distribution, Commodore OS Vision 3.0, and matched it with retro‑futurist hardware to court Windows 10 holdouts who don’t want to pay for extended updates or adopt Windows 11’s tighter hardware gates. Background / Overview Commodore OS Vision 3.0 arrives at a politically and technically charged moment: Microsoft ended mainstream support for...

Microsoft’s final free monthly update for Windows 10 has landed, and the practical consequences are now clear: Microsoft has ended routine OS-level servicing for Windows 10, but Mozilla says Firefox will keep receiving feature and security updates on Windows 10 for the foreseeable future — a helpful stopgap for users, but not a complete substitute for vendor support of the underlying operating system. Background: what just changed and why it matters Microsoft set a firm end-of-support date...

Microsoft used the moment Windows 10 reached its vendor support sunset to accelerate a strategic repositioning of the PC: Windows 11 is being pushed as an “AI-first” operating system with deeper Copilot integration, a hands‑free wake word, expanded on‑screen vision, experimental agentic actions, and a new Copilot+ hardware tier — while Windows 10’s routine, free security servicing for mainstream editions ended on October 14, 2025. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar made the...

If your PC still runs Windows 10, the clock has ticked past Microsoft’s official cut‑off — but there is a narrow, well‑documented lifeline that can buy many users one extra year of security updates without handing over cash today. Background / Overview Microsoft set a firm lifecycle cutoff for Windows 10: October 14, 2025 is the official end‑of‑support date for consumer editions. After that date Microsoft stopped providing routine feature updates, general technical support, and the regular...

Microsoft has officially drawn a line under Windows 10 while simultaneously pressing the accelerator on an AI-first Windows 11: routine vendor support for mainstream Windows 10 ended on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft is pushing new Copilot Voice, Copilot Vision and related AI features as a major reason to migrate to Windows 11. Overview The week Microsoft closed Windows 10’s decade-long mainstream servicing window, the company also unveiled a broad wave of Windows 11 updates that reposition...

The MSI Stealth 16 AI is, on paper and in practice, a near-perfect example of what modern 16‑inch Windows gaming/creator laptops try to be: slim, sharply finished, lightning-fast in bursts, and outrageously good at color work — yet stubbornly tethered to a wall by battery life and, at times, awkward thermals. ZDNet’s hands‑on impressions of the machine highlight that paradox: a refined chassis and a beautiful 240Hz QHD+ OLED display married to Intel Core Ultra silicon and an NVIDIA RTX...

Microsoft today rolled a focused Canary-channel update that restores a long-requested multi‑monitor convenience and bundles a handful of reliability fixes for Insiders — but the flight remains distinctly experimental and should be treated as such by anyone running Canary hardware or VMs. Background / Overview The Canary Channel continues to act as Microsoft’s earliest test ring: a place for platform plumbing, small UX experiments, and plumbing fixes that may never graduate beyond Insider...

Microsoft’s October cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5066835) introduced a high-impact regression that broke localhost-based web services for many developers and some production desktop applications, forcing dozens of teams to apply emergency mitigations or roll back the update entirely to restore functionality. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped KB5066835 (OS builds 26100.6899 and 26200.6899) as the October 14, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11, describing it as a standard...

Windows 11’s latest update finally brings a meaningful lock screen widget experience to the OS, along with a raft of AI-driven enhancements across Widgets, File Explorer, Narrator, and the Game Bar that together push Microsoft’s vision of a more proactive, glanceable desktop closer to reality. Background Microsoft shipped Windows 11 version 25H2 as the delivery mechanism for a set of features that have been rolling out through Insider and cumulative updates over the past year. Rather than a...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update pushes the OS further into an “AI PC” era: Copilot has evolved from a sidebar helper into a multimodal, permissioned assistant that can listen, see, and — under tightly controlled conditions — take actions inside your PC, including interacting with local files and desktop apps. Overview The update bundles several visible, user-facing changes into a staged rollout that emphasizes three core pillars: Copilot Voice (an opt‑in wake‑word and conversational...

Microsoft’s biggest push to date to weave generative AI into everyday PC use landed this week, with a broad set of Windows 11 upgrades that deepen the role of Copilot, introduce new on-device AI experiences, and tighten the link between AI-enabled hardware and software through the “Copilot+” ecosystem. Background Microsoft’s announcements arrive at a pivotal moment: the formal end of free mainstream support for Windows 10 has created both urgency and an opportunity to reposition Windows 11...

The Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant (often presented on Microsoft’s Download Windows 10 page as the Update Assistant) remains the simplest, least-technical way to move a qualifying PC from older Windows builds to the latest Windows 10 release while keeping apps, settings and personal files intact — but using it safely requires a few prep steps, awareness of system requirements, and contingency plans if the tool stalls or the device is blocked by compatibility checks. Background / Overview...

EaseUS’ Q3 2025 Windows OS Migration Case Study condenses telemetry from nearly 70,000 users and 132,117 migration operations into a practical, data‑rich playbook for anyone planning OS upgrades, imaging projects, or hardware refreshes in the immediate aftermath of Windows 10’s end‑of‑support window. The report’s core findings — dominant SSD‑centric migration flows, a 500GB–1TB system‑drive “sweet spot,” markedly faster SSD→SSD throughput, and a concentrated set of repeatable failure causes...

Microsoft has released emergency fixes for a severe ASP.NET Core vulnerability — a Kestrel HTTP request‑smuggling/security‑feature bypass tracked as CVE‑2025‑55315 and flagged with a near‑maximum CVSS v3.1 score of 9.9 — and developers and operators are being urged to patch immediately, assess hosting models, and update both server runtimes and NuGet packages where appropriate. Background / Overview Kestrel is the lightweight, cross‑platform web server shipped with ASP.NET Core and is the...

Microsoft finally gave Windows users a first‑party way to flip the desktop between light and dark on a schedule — via PowerToys’ new Light Switch module — and it’s the sort of small, practical feature that should have been in Settings years ago. Background Windows has supported Light and Dark appearance modes for several releases, but it historically lacked a straightforward, user‑friendly scheduler to flip those modes automatically. Power users filled the gap with Task Scheduler scripts...