Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5761 (KB5064093) to the Beta Channel for Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2, continuing a pattern of incremental, tightly staged updates that blend UI polish, targeted bug fixes, and guarded rollouts of AI-driven experiences...
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Microsoft’s Xbox handheld arriving as a Windows-powered device is less an endgame than the first real, public proof that Microsoft intends to use Windows itself as the foundation of a next-generation, cross-device Xbox experience.
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Microsoft and ASUS announced the ROG Xbox...
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If you're a Windows Insider, the updates you see in Settings > Windows Update > Update history can include preview features, experimental fixes, and servicing changes that aren't part of the regular consumer release cadence—Microsoft published a concise hub article explaining exactly that and...
I’ve been a Windows user for decades, certified and salaried in its administration, and I still find myself reluctantly staying on the platform while privately resenting much of what it has become. The piece forwarded here — a veteran Windows writer admitting he’s “staying on Windows, but I’m...
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Microsoft’s latest message to Windows 10 users is stark and unambiguous: the regular monthly security updates that have kept this decade-old OS safe will stop after October 14, 2025, and consumers must choose — upgrade, enroll in a short-term Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or accept...
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Microsoft’s recent policy updates around Office distribution have been widely misunderstood: the company is not locking Office into the Windows Store — it is effectively retiring the Microsoft Store installation type for Microsoft 365 (Office) apps and steering users toward Click-to-Run delivery...
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Microsoft is quietly testing Copilot recommendations inside the Windows 11 Start menu — a small interface change that marks a strategic shift: Microsoft is no longer content to confine Copilot to a sidebar or system tray; it wants the AI assistant surfaced where users begin tasks, and it’s...
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Microsoft has taken a long-running complaint about Notepad’s overstuffed right‑click menu seriously: Insiders are now seeing a compact, File Explorer–style context menu that surfaces core edit actions in a single top row while keeping AI and less‑used commands below — a move that trims pointer...
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Microsoft appears to be steering Windows back toward an annual, generational-style release cadence after a period of smaller, incremental feature updates — driven largely by a planned AI-first platform internally codenamed Hudson Valley and built on a new base called Germanium. Multiple industry...
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Windows 11’s latest 25H2 preview builds polish many of the small, everyday interactions that shape how people work on Windows — from tidier context menus and smoother taskbar animations to Start menu reorganizations and File Explorer refinements — all delivered as part of an incremental...
Today’s Beta-channel drop from the Windows Insider Program lands as a small but significant checkpoint in the Windows 11, version 24H2 servicing stream: Microsoft published Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5751 (packaged as KB5064071) to Beta Channel Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2 —...
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Today’s Beta‑Channel flight brings Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5751 (KB5064071), a focused incremental update that continues Microsoft’s push to make AI features like Recall and Click to Do more useful and more reliable while tightening up a raft of UI and reliability fixes for...
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Today’s Dev Channel drop for Windows Insiders brings a modest-but-meaningful update: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (KB5064071) adds targeted improvements to Copilot-era tooling, a handful of UI polish items, and several reliability fixes — while carrying a few known installation...
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Microsoft is quietly aligning Notepad’s right‑click experience with Windows 11’s modern context‑menu language, rolling a refreshed menu into the Windows Insider channels that places the most common editing actions up front while preserving Notepad’s growing set of AI and formatting features...
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Release Preview build packs another wave of AI features — but the single addition many users want most is still gated behind Copilot+ hardware, and that restriction exposes the wider tensions in Microsoft’s AI-first roadmap for the OS. Background
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Microsoft’s next big Windows chapter has become as much about how the company ships features as what it ships — and that makes separating fact from fiction around “Windows 12” more important than ever. The article you supplied lays out the mainstream rumors: a cleaner UI with deeper AI at its...
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Deep Dive: Windows 11 Build 26100.5061 (KB5064081) — what’s new, what to watch for, and how to handle it
Published: August 14, 2025
Microsoft today released Windows 11 Build 26100.5061 (packaged as KB5064081) to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel for Windows 11, version 24H2 (OS build...
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Today Microsoft published Windows 11 Build 26100.5061 (KB5064081) to Insiders on the Release Preview Channel for Windows 11, version 24H2, delivering a broad mix of AI-driven features, quality fixes, and platform changes that will begin rolling out to wider audiences in the coming weeks. The...
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Microsoft has quietly rolled out a redesigned right‑click menu for Notepad in Windows 11, bringing the long-familiar text editor into alignment with the modern, streamlined context‑menu style that Microsoft has been applying across the OS. rty has long been defined by speed, simplicity, and...
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a refreshed right‑click experience for Notepad in Windows 11, aligning the long‑running text editor with the redesigned, streamlined context menus Microsoft introduced across the OS — a change now appearing in Notepad builds shipping to Windows Insiders and...
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