Dark mode on Skype for Web is a one-click change that dramatically reduces screen glare and makes long chat sessions easier on the eyes, and you can enable it from the Skype web interface in seconds by opening Settings → Appearance → Modes → Dark.
Overview
Dark mode is now a standard...
Caps Lock is a relic that still sits on millions of keyboards, but in 2025 the question is no longer just rhetorical: should the key survive, be repurposed, or be removed entirely?
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The Caps Lock key traces its lineage to the mechanical typewriter’s shift‑lock — a useful way to latch...
Microsoft’s Insider channels closed out September with a quiet but consequential set of previews: seven focused Windows 11 improvements that refine AI experiences, accessibility, and everyday system diagnostics for Insiders — and set clearer expectations for how Copilot features will be baked...
Microsoft’s latest Release Preview drop for Windows 11—packaged as KB5065789—delivers one of the broadest mixes of AI-first convenience features, accessibility upgrades, and pragmatic UX polish the OS has seen in a single preview package, while exposing the same trade-offs that have defined...
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...
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...
Microsoft has begun rolling out Gaming Copilot — an AI-powered, in‑overlay assistant for players — into Windows 11 via the Xbox Game Bar, bringing voice-first help, screenshot-aware guidance, achievement tracking, and personalized recommendations directly into the play session.
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Microsoft today pushed another Dev Channel flight: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6690 (KB5065786), a focused cumulative update for Insiders running Windows 11, version 25H2, that continues the program’s push to fold Copilot-driven experiences deeper into the shell while addressing a set...
When Microsoft began shipping keyboards labeled “Copilot+” with a dedicated Copilot key, the gesture felt like a signal: AI was now a hardware-first priority for Windows. What started as a promotional flourish, however, has quickly exposed the long-running tension between hardware gimmicks and...
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Microsoft has begun rolling out Gaming Copilot — an AI-powered, in‑overlay assistant for players — into the Xbox experience on Windows 11, inserting a voice‑enabled, screenshot‑aware helper into the Game Bar that promises context-sensitive guidance, achievement lookups, and personalized game...
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Microsoft has begun rolling out Gaming Copilot (Beta) to Windows PCs via the Xbox Game Bar, an in‑overlay AI assistant that promises real‑time, voice‑first help, screenshot‑aware guidance, achievement tracking, and personalized game recommendations — with mobile Xbox app support scheduled for...
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Microsoft’s Xbox Copilot branding is surfacing in two very different ways across the PC ecosystem this month — one familiar and hardware-focused, the other new and AI-driven — and the overlap is creating both promising accessibility gains and real confusion about what’s actually available to...
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A new, age-focused guide to Microsoft’s latest desktop — promoted in a recent press release distributed via EIN Presswire and republished on regional outlets — aims to tackle one of the fastest-growing barriers to digital inclusion: tech anxiety among older adults. The announcement positions...
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Microsoft has begun rolling Gaming Copilot into the Windows 11 Game Bar, turning the overlay that millions of PC players already use into a live, context-aware AI assistant for in-game help, coaching, and account-aware recommendations.
Background
Microsoft first introduced Copilot-branded...
Microsoft’s long‑promised AI sidekick for players is finally rolling into the PC Game Bar: Xbox’s Gaming Copilot — marketed simply as Xbox Copilot or Gaming Copilot (Beta) — is being deployed to Windows PC users via the Xbox Game Bar starting today, with an Xbox mobile release planned for...
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Microsoft’s Click To Do is the kind of small change that can quietly rearrange how you work: a system-level overlay that turns whatever is on your screen—text, images, even tables—into actionable items you can edit, summarize, or hand off to Copilot, all without leaving the context of your...
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Microsoft has quietly folded an AI coach into the Windows 11 Game Bar: Gaming Copilot (branded as Xbox Copilot in some builds) is rolling out to Xbox Insiders now, promising voice, screenshot and context-aware help without leaving the game — and the early beta exposes both a practical leap in...
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Microsoft is redesigning the mobile Copilot experience on iOS: beginning this fall the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will act primarily as an AI-powered viewer and conversational hub, offering in-context file previews, summaries and Q&A — while editing for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files will be...
Firefox’s latest stable update, Firefox 143, pushes two headline features into the hands of users: an AI chat provider shortcut that surfaces Microsoft Copilot inside the browser’s AI sidebar, and a Windows-only web‑app (pinned‑site) workflow that lets you add sites to the taskbar and run them...
Mozilla’s stable channel just received a substantial refresh: Firefox 143 lands with Microsoft Copilot available inside the AI sidebar, experimental Google Lens visual search, Windows taskbar web‑app pinning, and a batch of security fixes that administrators and power users should install right...