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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
Microsoft’s latest Canary-flight experiment stitches small, familiar conveniences into a broader push to make generative AI an everyday part of the Windows shell: right‑click inside File Explorer and you may now see an AI actions submenu that offers visual search and one‑click image edits...
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Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel experiment pushes intelligence deeper into the Windows shell: a new AI actions submenu in File Explorer lets you right‑click images to run Bing Visual Search, blur or remove backgrounds, and erase objects — all without opening a full editor. This context‑aware...
Microsoft’s latest Canary-channel whisper landed with a familiar mix of small UX restorations and new AI shortcuts: Insiders running the reported Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27938 are seeing AI actions in File Explorer (visual search and quick image edits), a returning Notification Center...
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Microsoft has quietly restored the little thing that annoyed a surprising number of users: the expanded clock in Notification Center can once again show seconds — and that small user-experience win arrives alongside a broader set of AI-focused experiments that put generative image actions...
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Microsoft’s latest pre-release whisper to the Windows Insider Program’s most experimental ring landed with a thud of déjà vu: the Canary channel recently received a new build — reported as Build 27938 — that mainly repackages features already seen elsewhere in the Insider ecosystem, notably...
Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27938 to the Canary Channel, and the headline feature worth immediate attention is the introduction of AI actions in File Explorer — a right‑click context menu that brings image editing, web visual search, and document summarization into the...