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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...

Open 3D Engine’s 25.10 release lands as a technically ambitious update that tightens the rendering pipeline, trims installer and build overhead, and applies a targeted set of Vulkan fixes that together promise sharper visuals and smoother Vulkan performance for developers and studios using O3DE in production. Background Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is the open-source engine stewarded by the Open 3D Foundation and targeted at games, simulations, robotics, and digital-twin workflows. The project...

Microsoft’s final Windows 10 security update dropped as scheduled, and at the same moment the company is aggressively recasting Windows 11 as a generative-AI platform—folding voice, vision, agents and new Copilot features directly into the desktop to accelerate upgrades and reshape how people interact with their PCs. Background Microsoft originally launched Windows 10 in July 2015 and supported it through a decade of security and feature updates. That long support cycle officially concluded...

Microsoft’s two‑line tease — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday” — turned a routine week in Windows-land into a flashpoint for speculation about a voice‑first, agentic future for Windows and an accelerated push to make Copilot the primary way people interact with their PCs. Background Microsoft posted the brief, deliberately ambiguous message on the official Windows social handle amid a consequential moment for the platform...

Microsoft’s latest wave of Copilot updates makes a blunt, unavoidable claim: the “AI PC” is no longer a distant marketing slogan but an actively unfolding product category—one in which Windows 11 listens, sees, and can, with explicit permission, act on your behalf across the desktop. Background / Overview For years “AI PC” was mostly a promise: chips that could accelerate neural models, scattered AI features that lived inside individual apps, and marketing copy that suggested a future...

Microsoft’s free, routine security updates for Windows 10 officially stopped on October 14, 2025, a vendor lifecycle cutoff that security experts and consumer advocates say materially raises cyber risk for millions of people and organizations that remain on the platform. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in 2015 and for a decade has been the dominant desktop OS for consumers, small businesses and many public institutions. Microsoft’s lifecycle plan set a firm end-of-support date...

Microsoft’s mid‑October push makes the transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11 unmistakably about generative AI: as Microsoft formally ends mainstream support for Windows 10, the company has accelerated a set of voice, vision, and agent‑style features in Windows 11 and reintroduced a hardware‑segmentation strategy that ties the most advanced experiences to a new class of “Copilot+” PCs. The move is strategic and consequential — for consumers, IT teams, security pros and the environment —...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update turns Copilot from a sidebar helper into a full‑time, multimodal assistant you can talk to, show your screen, and — with permission — ask to act on your behalf, a shift that rewrites how many people will interact with their PCs. The company has introduced an opt‑in wake phrase, “Hey, Copilot,” expanded Copilot Vision so the assistant can analyze on‑screen content, and previewed Copilot Actions, an agentic capability that can perform multi‑step tasks under...

Microsoft used the end of Windows 10’s support window to press the accelerator on an AI-first Windows 11: the company shipped a substantial October update that deepens Copilot’s voice and vision capabilities, introduced experimental agentic features and File Explorer “AI Actions,” and doubled down on a new device tier—Copilot+ PCs—that pairs Windows 11’s most advanced features with dedicated neural hardware and new licensing gates. Background Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar closed a major...

Microsoft’s single-click upgrade path just broke at the worst possible moment for many users: the Windows 11 Media Creation Tool (MCT) update released in late September suddenly closes without an error when run on Windows 10 (version 22H2) machines, and Microsoft has confirmed the problem and advised alternate upgrade routes until a fixed MCT is released. Background / Overview The Media Creation Tool has long been the simplest Microsoft‑supported way to download official Windows ISO media...