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Microsoft’s Windows team says 2025 has been a year of steady, incremental reshaping for Windows 11—dozens of features shipped across monthly updates, new on-device AI experiences surfaced for Copilot+ hardware, and productivity-focused polish landed in File Explorer, Widgets, Settings, and the...

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...

Microsoft’s October 2025 cumulative security update for Windows 11 — KB5066835 — is rolling out now, shipping important security fixes plus a modest set of user-facing improvements (including a new lightweight terminal editor “Edit,” File Explorer “AI Actions,” multi‑monitor Notification Center...

Microsoft’s October 2025 Patch Tuesday has brought a significant cumulative update to Windows 11 users: KB5066835, a mandatory security rollup that also flips on visible user-facing improvements for systems on the 24H2 and 25H2 servicing streams. The update ships as the October 2025 monthly...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday for Windows 11 quietly doubles as a moderate feature drop: alongside the expected security fixes, Microsoft is surfacing several new usability and AI-tethered features, a reorganization of Settings, deeper passkey support with third‑party providers, and a...

Windows 11’s September preview update KB5065789 (OS Build 26100.6725 for 24H2) rolls several AI-driven productivity hooks and practical UI simplifications into the operating system, most visibly adding AI Actions in File Explorer, improved passkey support with third‑party manager integration...

Microsoft has quietly turned File Explorer from a static file list into a launchpad for AI-accelerated micro‑tasks, tighter cloud integration, and a steady stream of productivity refinements that landed across Windows 11 builds in 2025. What started as a handful of usability tweaks — tidier...

Microsoft rolled out optional September preview updates for Windows 11 that bundle a surprising mix of AI-powered conveniences, accessibility improvements, and a broad set of bug fixes — and while Microsoft patched several known regressions, a small number of playback and compatibility edge...

Microsoft has quietly pushed an optional Release Preview package—KB5065789—to Windows 11 systems running 24H2, packaging a cluster of AI-first productivity hooks, accessibility improvements and small but meaningful UI tweaks that preview what many users can expect to see more broadly in...

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 Windows 11 Insider previews for early September 2025 widen the operating system’s AI footprint and polish long‑standing UI rough edges, but they also underline the strategic tradeoffs Microsoft is making as AI features move deeper into the OS: more convenience and on‑device...

Microsoft has begun seeding KB5065789 to the Release Preview Channel, delivering targeted accessibility and productivity upgrades to Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 — notably an improved Narrator with a new Braille Viewer and more natural table/list reading, and an expanded Click to Do that...

Microsoft’s latest Release Preview channel updates make a small but meaningful usability change: you can now choose where on-screen hardware indicators — the volume, brightness, airplane mode and virtual desktop flyouts — appear on your display, and that’s just the tip of what landed in the...

Microsoft has pushed a coordinated set of Windows 11 Insider Preview builds into the Dev, Beta, and Release Preview channels, bringing the near‑final 25H2 activation and a raft of AI, accessibility, and usability tweaks that IT teams and power users should validate now. Background / Overview...

Microsoft is quietly moving generative AI from apps into the very heart of Windows by adding an AI Actions submenu to File Explorer — a right‑click surface that lets you run visual search or apply quick, model‑driven image edits without opening a separate editor. The capability, visible in the...

Microsoft is testing a set of context‑aware AI editing tools that sit directly in File Explorer, letting you right‑click an image or document and invoke tasks such as Bing Visual Search, background blur/removal, generative object erase, and document summarization — and there are documented ways...

Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel experiment stitches AI into one of Windows’ oldest workflows: right‑clicking files. The reported Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27938 surfaces a new AI actions entry in File Explorer’s context menu that lets you run visual search, blur or remove backgrounds...

Microsoft is quietly restoring a piece of the Windows 10 experience many users missed: a larger, in-your-face clock with seconds in the Notification Center — and it’s arriving alongside a set of AI shortcuts in File Explorer and new transparency controls for generative AI access in Windows 11’s...

Microsoft is quietly folding AI-powered image editing and Bing visual search directly into the File Explorer right‑click menu as part of Insider testing, a move that turns the once‑simple file manager into a micro‑workflow gateway for quick edits and visual lookups. Background Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s latest Insider whispers fold AI deeper into the Windows shell: right‑click a picture in File Explorer and you may now see an “AI actions” submenu offering Bing Visual Search, background blur, object erase, and background removal — a small set of micro‑workflows that signal a broader...