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Microsoft’s Release Preview package KB5065789 (OS Build 26100.6725) landed as a targeted, non‑security preview on September 29, 2025, bringing a small set of reliability fixes for Windows 11 while also staging several AI and accessibility features behind gradual rollout controls. Overview KB5065789 is an optional Release Preview update intended primarily for pilots, enthusiasts, and IT validation rings rather than immediate, broad deployment. The package is small by design: its headline work...

Microsoft has issued KB5067462, a targeted Image Processing AI component update that advances the Intel-specific imaging stack on Copilot+ PCs to Image Processing version 1.2509.1022.0, delivered automatically through Windows Update for devices running Windows 11, version 24H2 that already have the latest cumulative update installed. Background / Overview The Image Processing AI component is one of Microsoft's modular AI subsystems that supplies shared image pre‑ and post‑processing...

Microsoft has pushed a targeted Phi Silica component update for Qualcomm‑powered Copilot+ PCs — published as KB5067465 and delivering Phi Silica version 1.2509.1022.0 — a quiet but consequential step in Microsoft’s on‑device AI rollout that affects how local Copilot experiences run on Windows 11, version 24H2. This release arrives through Windows Update for qualifying devices (those that meet the Copilot+ NPU requirements and already have the latest 24H2 cumulative update), and the public...

Broward County Public Schools has embarked on what district leaders describe as a historic, districtwide integration of Microsoft Copilot — a program the district calls the largest K–12 adoption of Microsoft’s AI assistant in the world. The rollout moves the county from a cautious position that once blocked ChatGPT on district devices to full-scale, tenant-grounded Copilot deployments for educators and staff, with staged student pilots and a formal AI task force to write guardrails. The...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update turns Word, Excel and PowerPoint into agentic workspaces: Agent Mode brings multi‑step, steerable automation directly into Excel and Word on the web, while a chat‑initiated Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot can draft full documents and slide decks by combining conversational prompts, live research and model‑level quality checks. Background / Overview Microsoft has been steadily evolving Copilot from a chat helper into a platform of agents, and the new...

Microsoft’s latest clarification about the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program makes one thing uncomfortably clear: if you use the free ESU path tied to a Microsoft account, you must sign into that account on the PC at least once every 60 days — or the ESU entitlement will lapse and security updates will stop. Background / Overview Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025. Microsoft created the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program to...

Google just turned a routine search-session into an advertisement for platform migration: users visiting Google.com on Windows 10 have reported a prominent pop-up urging them to “Time for a new laptop? Get Chromebook Plus,” explicitly referencing that security fixes for Windows 10 end in October and pitching Chromebook Plus as “the laptop that has never had a virus.” The tactic is a blunt, opportunistic play in the final weeks before Windows 10’s end-of-support date, and it crystallizes the...

Microsoft’s latest Dev Channel cumulative — identified in the community announcement as Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6760 (KB5065793) — continues the program’s steady cadence of incremental AI, accessibility, and File Explorer work while shipping a small but useful set of quality fixes and a handful of persistent known issues Insiders should weigh before installing. The release bundles a trio of visible experiments — a taskbar-accessible network speed test, a new Microsoft 365...

Today’s Beta-channel drop for Windows Insiders — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.6760 (KB5065793) — continues Microsoft’s cautious, staged approach to delivering Copilot-era features and quality fixes on top of the Windows 11, version 24H2 servicing stream. The release mixes modest user-facing additions (notably a taskbar‑accessible internet speed test and a Microsoft 365 Copilot tile in Get Started) with developer-facing plumbing (StorageProvider APIs for File Explorer Home)...

Flyoobe’s latest publicized build continues a clear trend: the project that began as a compact Windows 11 installer bypass (Flyby11) has been deliberately reshaped into a fuller Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) and deployment assistant that both enables installations on devices Microsoft would normally block and controls what the user sees and runs during first boot. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Windows 11 eligibility gates—TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, supported CPU families and certain...

Microsoft’s recent moves in Canary and Insider channels suggest the long‑running tug‑of‑war over whether Windows 11 will keep forcing Edge and Bing for taskbar searches may finally be loosening — but the change is still an experiment, regionally motivated, and far from guaranteed to ship globally unchanged. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Windows Search has long been a hybrid: an on‑device index for apps, files, and settings paired with web results served through Microsoft’s own stack. For...

Microsoft appears to be taking a concrete step toward fixing one of Windows 11’s most enduring annoyances: the Start menu and taskbar web searches that insist on opening in Microsoft Edge and using Bing, regardless of the user’s chosen default browser or search engine. Experimental flags discovered in Microsoft Edge Canary — with names like msWSBLaunchNonBingDSE, msWSBLaunchNonEdgeDB and variants containing “Explicit” — strongly suggest Windows Search could soon hand off web queries to...

Microsoft’s Photos app for Windows 11 has quietly graduated from a capable image viewer to a genuinely helpful AI-driven photo manager, and the September Insider release introduces two practical advances that matter to anyone juggling receipts, IDs, screenshots, and decades of low-resolution scans. Background / Overview Microsoft announced an AI-powered Auto‑Categorization feature for the Photos app that automatically groups images into four focused bins — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity...

Microsoft is pushing a new productivity narrative it calls vibe working — an in‑app, agentic layer for Microsoft 365 that embeds multi‑step AI assistants directly into Word and Excel (with PowerPoint workflows accessible via a chat‑first Office Agent). The feature set — Agent Mode inside the apps and an Office Agent surfaced from Copilot chat — promises to turn plain‑English briefs into auditable work: multi‑sheet Excel models, draft proposals in Word, and complete slide decks assembled from...

SMB over QUIC promises to reframe how home labbers and NAS enthusiasts access file shares over untrusted networks—bringing TLS 1.3 encryption, QUIC’s connection migration and stream multiplexing, and the ability to traverse perimeter devices on UDP/443—while also introducing new operational complexity, platform restrictions, and certificate-management overhead that every home labber should understand before they test it in their rack. Background SMB (Server Message Block) is the default...

Microsoft’s last-minute lifeline for Windows 10 users is real — but it’s narrow, conditional, and time‑boxed: Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025, and the company’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program will provide one additional year of security‑only patches through October 13, 2026 — provided you enroll correctly before the deadline. Background / Overview Four years after Windows 11’s launch, a large portion of the global installed base still runs...

I started my new Windows PC with a local account to avoid “big‑tech” tracking and keep everything on the machine — but within a week I switched back to a Microsoft account because the conveniences I’d taken for granted simply stopped working, and that trade‑off is now the clearest practical lesson in the real-world differences between a local account and a Microsoft account. Background: what a “local account” actually means (and why it feels appealing) A local account on Windows is the...

Microsoft is finally closing a small but persistent Windows 11 usability gap by delivering an automatic theme scheduler — via PowerToys — that will switch between light and dark modes on a clock, or at local sunrise and sunset, with per-surface control and offset tuning. Background / Overview Windows 11 has offered both Light and Dark modes for years, but unlike macOS and many mobile platforms, it has lacked a simple, first‑party scheduler that changes the OS appearance automatically based...

Microsoft’s Photos app on Windows 11 just learned a tidy new habit: it will now automatically sort certain types of images into focused collections so you can find receipts, screenshots, IDs, and notes without digging through months of camera-roll clutter. This change — shipped as an Insider preview called Auto‑Categorization — is deliberately narrow, runs on-device on supported hardware, and is an early example of Microsoft pushing practical AI into everyday system apps to solve common...

The Microsoft AI Tour in Chicago distilled a simple, urgent message: AI is no longer an abstract technology debate — it is a business and human-capability imperative that must be built with people at the center. Across keynote stages, hands-on demos, and corridor conversations at McCormick Place, leaders from product, accessibility, sales, security, and engineering laid out not only the capabilities of today's agentic AI but the governance and cultural shifts required to make those...