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Microsoft’s latest Dev‑Channel flight, Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.5790 (KB5065779), brings a focused set of Copilot+ features—most notably Fluid Dictation in Voice Access—along with wider Windows Studio Effects support for additional cameras, new Copilot‑driven File Explorer hover actions, a clutch of stability fixes, and a handful of hardware‑gated rollouts and known issues Insiders should weigh before upgrading. Background / Overview Microsoft released Build 26220.5790 to the...

Microsoft’s latest Insider experiments have restored a small but widely requested convenience: the Notification Center can once again show a larger clock with seconds—and that option is appearing alongside a broader set of AI-focused trials in the Canary channel. Background / Overview Windows 11’s development over the past two years has mixed big, AI-driven features with a steady stream of quality‑of‑life restorations that long-time users asked for after the jump from Windows 10. The...

Microsoft Azure customers experienced measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer, often congested detours and exposing persistent structural vulnerabilities in the global internet backbone. Background / Overview The internet is a physical network as much as it is a logical one. A dense web of submarine fiber‑optic cables laid on the ocean floor carries the overwhelming majority of international data...

For millions of Windows users, the end of Windows 10 is no longer a distant calendar note — it arrives on October 14, 2025 — but Microsoft has quietly created a one‑year escape hatch that lets many consumers keep receiving security updates through October 13, 2026 without immediately buying new hardware or paying a recurring enterprise fee. Background: what’s actually changing and why it matters Windows 10 will stop receiving free security updates, feature updates, and standard technical...

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Microsoft’s decision to sunset Windows 10 has moved from distant calendar noise to a pressing deadline: the OS reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft is offering a limited consumer path to buy one more year of security-only updates — including a surprising set of free entry routes — while governments and security agencies urge users to upgrade to Windows 11 or otherwise harden their environments. Background For over a decade, Windows 10 was the default Windows for many...

Satya Nadella’s short thread on X showing five ChatGPT-5 prompts has done more than spark social-media conversation — it offers a practical blueprint for how Microsoft expects Copilot to reshape executive workflows, compress decision cycles, and push generative AI from “drafting tool” to a persistent, context-aware assistant that reasons across mail, calendar, chat and files. What looks like a few simple prompts is actually a window into platform-level changes (GPT‑5 model family, Smart...

Microsoft has quietly added a practical new trick to Copilot in PowerPoint — it can now generate a ready-to-edit slide directly from a Word document (or create a full presentation from a Word file), and that feature arrives at the exact moment organizations must face the hard deadline for Windows 10 support, making the convenience attractive but the platform-timing urgent. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot — the AI assistant embedded across Microsoft 365 apps — has moved beyond...

Windows 11’s latest Beta-channel preview, Build 26120.5790, brings two pragmatic AI upgrades—fluid dictation and expanded Windows Studio Effects for additional cameras on Copilot+ PCs—alongside a UI tweak in File Explorer’s Home panel that may please some users but annoy others with added visual clutter. Background Microsoft shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5790 to the Beta channel on September 5, 2025, framing this flight around incremental Copilot+ improvements that lean...

Microsoft and Phison have jointly reframed a mid‑August wave of alarming NVMe disappearances and alleged “bricking” incidents: the most credible working explanation now centers on pre‑release engineering firmware present on a small subset of drives, not an inherent, platform‑wide flaw introduced by the August Windows 11 cumulative update. Background / Overview In mid‑August 2025, hobbyist test benches and independent reporters began publishing a reproducible failure profile: during large...

Microsoft’s OneDrive Backup can be switched on for you during Windows 11 setup — but your files aren’t stolen; they’ve simply been moved into OneDrive and synced. If you prefer your Documents, Pictures, and Desktop to live locally, the change is reversible: stop folder backup in OneDrive, then move the files back to your local profile. This article explains exactly what happens, gives a safe, step‑by‑step undo procedure, and analyzes the benefits, risks, and long‑term options for Windows 11...

Microsoft Edge is quietly giving users more control over the AI-driven content that greets them on the New Tab Page: Edge Canary now includes dedicated Copilot Discover feed settings that let you tailor what appears in the Copilot-powered feed, from language and region to which channels and card types are shown. Background / Overview Microsoft has been reshaping Edge around a single idea: make the browser an AI-first workspace rather than just a window to the web. That effort culminated in...

Microsoft warned that Azure customers could see increased latency after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables were cut in the Red Sea, forcing emergency rerouting of traffic and exposing fragile single points in global cloud and internet infrastructure. Background The disruption began on September 6, when multiple submarine cable faults were detected in the Red Sea near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Internet monitoring groups reported degraded connectivity across the Middle East and South Asia, with...

The UK Department for Business and Trade’s pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot returned a clear, measured verdict: staff liked the assistant, and specific writing and summarisation tasks became noticeably faster, but the trial produced no robust evidence that those time savings translated into department‑level productivity gains. Background / Overview Microsoft 365 Copilot is an integrated generative‑AI assistant embedded into Word, Outlook, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint and a standalone Copilot Chat...

Internet traffic between Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe slowed sharply after multiple undersea fibre‑optic cables in the Red Sea were severed on 6 September 2025, forcing cloud operators — most visibly Microsoft Azure — and regional carriers to reroute traffic, warn customers of higher latency, and begin contingency and repair planning. Background The global internet is not an ethereal cloud: it runs on physical arteries of submarine fibre‑optic cables laid across the seafloor...

Acer’s new Swift Air 16 arrived at IFA 2025 as a design stunt with a practical edge: a full‑size 16‑inch Windows 11 Copilot+ laptop that, in its lightest configuration, tips the scales at under 1 kilogram — a weight milestone that reshapes expectations for ultraportables and puts pressure on Apple’s compact MacBook Air. (theverge.com, community.acer.com) Background Acer unveiled the Swift Air 16 during IFA Berlin as the latest entry in its Swift family aimed at mobile professionals who want...

Human memory is not a passive archive — it’s a efficiency engine, and a set of new experiments summarized in Psychology Today argues that our brains preferentially encode pairs of people who look like they’re interacting, making these dyads easier to recall later than two people who merely happened to stand side‑by‑side. Background / Overview The popular writeup summarizes a cluster of laboratory experiments (attributed in the summary to a 2025 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General...

The Surface Laptop Studio 2 is Microsoft’s most aggressively positioned laptop in years: a heavy-duty, convertible Windows workstation built around 13th‑Gen Intel H‑series silicon, up to NVIDIA RTX 40‑series graphics and a dedicated Intel Movidius NPU — and Microsoft even used an on‑stage Blender demo to claim it could outpace an M2 Max MacBook Pro on certain renders. (microsoft.com, techradar.com) Background Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Studio 2 at its September 2023 Surface event...

H3C’s new MegaBook has arrived as a direct challenge to the premium detachable segment: a 14‑inch, 2.8K 120 Hz OLED 2‑in‑1 that pairs Windows 11 with an x86 Android 14 fork (branded MegaOS), offers a surprisingly affordable China‑market entry price, and — most controversially — ships in a fanless configuration when fitted with Intel’s Core Ultra 5 226V (Lunar Lake) silicon, a rare claim for Intel‑based convertible hardware. Background / Overview H3C’s MegaBook was unveiled September 5, 2025...

Microsoft’s Surface social post accidentally gave Apple a compliment it never meant to—an official Surface ad on X showed a device clearly running iPadOS, prompting swift ridicule, a Community Note correction, and the post’s removal within hours. Background Microsoft’s Surface account posted an image promoting the Surface Pro as “the ultimate research buddy,” but eagle-eyed users noticed the screenshot on the device wasn’t Windows at all—it was iPadOS, complete with the iPad status bar and...