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 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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Google’s experimental Windows app aims to remove the friction of switching windows to look something up — a floating, Spotlight‑like search bar you summon with Alt + Space that can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web, and that folds in Google Lens and the company’s AI...
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Microsoft’s Copilot is getting quietly practical: you can now turn a Word document into a ready-to-edit PowerPoint slide in seconds — and for anyone still running Windows 10 there’s a second, much louder message: upgrade planning is no longer optional. This dual moment — an incremental but...
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Microsoft’s push to fold generative AI into everyday file management just moved a major step closer to most Windows users: Microsoft 365’s Copilot is now integrated with OneDrive inside Windows, letting subscribers invoke Copilot actions from File Explorer and the OneDrive Activity Center on the...
JetBrains has pushed a major architectural change into ReSharper 2025.2 that moves most heavy analysis out of Visual Studio’s UI process into a separate 64‑bit worker process — a shift the company says reduces cumulative UI freezes during solution startup by roughly 61 percent in its lab tests...
Microsoft’s on-stage Copilot demo — which showed the assistant watching a PC screen while narrating how to craft a sword in Minecraft — is shorthand for a much larger push: Microsoft is bringing a multi‑modal, voice‑enabled Copilot into the Windows gaming experience via the Game Bar, and the...
Microsoft’s AI war has a new front: the Windows 11 Start menu — and the company appears to be testing Copilot prompts directly inside the Recommended area to nudge users toward using, and eventually paying for, its AI assistant.
Background
Since Copilot’s debut on Windows, Microsoft has steadily...
Microsoft has begun quietly testing Copilot-related recommendations inside the Windows 11 Start menu’s Recommended area — a move that places Microsoft’s AI assistant directly at the moment users choose what to do next and that, in practice, functions like a promotional surface for both the...