ai in windows

Windows 11’s Copilot arrived as a promise: an ever-present AI assistant woven into the operating system to save time, reduce friction, and surface answers where you work. After living with it, toggling it on and off, and forcing it into daily tasks, the takeaway is clear: Copilot delivers real...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer just a chat window — it’s quietly woven into Windows as a pocket-sized system administrator, document editor, image creator, and on-screen troubleshooter, and most users are still treating it like a search box. What looks like a conversational assistant on the...

Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly moving closer to the center of the Windows desktop: recent Windows Insider preview builds contain inert UI resources and a faint, hover-only hotspot in File Explorer tied to an internal control labeled AppAssistantLaunch and human-facing strings such as “Chat with...

Microsoft is quietly testing a built‑in Copilot chat surface inside File Explorer — a subtle, hover‑activated “Chat with Copilot” affordance and detachable pane discovered in Windows 11 Insider preview builds — a change that would fold conversational AI directly into the most frequently used...

Windows 11’s AI experiment has a new nickname: “Microslop,” and the joke just graduated into tooling — a browser extension that replaces every on‑page instance of “Microsoft” with “Microslop” is circulating across browser stores and social platforms, turning user anger into a visible, repeatable...

Microsoft’s next major desktop OS looks less like a dramatic reset and more like a steady, AI-driven evolution — one that stitches Copilot into the shell, leans on dedicated neural hardware, improves Windows on Arm compatibility, and quietly prepares the plumbing for a more modular, serviceable...

Microsoft is switching on a trio of Microsoft Teams messaging protections by default for tenants that still use the out‑of‑the‑box configuration, a move that will automatically enable weaponizable file type protection, malicious URL detection, and an end‑user false‑positive reporting mechanism...

Microsoft’s Copilot is moving from sidebar novelty toward the center of Windows workflows: recent Insider artifacts and press coverage show a context‑menu “Copilot” entry in File Explorer that can send files to the assistant or produce quick summaries, and evidence of a detachable, chat‑style...

A compact, community-built PowerShell project now gives Windows 11 users an all-in-one way to excise Copilot, Recall and a broad swath of Microsoft’s on-device AI surfaces — and its existence crystallizes a deeper trade-off between user control, update reliability, and platform design that every...

Microsoft has quietly extended another layer of AI to Windows 11 users — this time in a way that doesn’t strictly require cutting‑edge hardware — while keeping the faster, private, and offline variants reserved for machines with dedicated neural silicon. Background Microsoft’s ongoing strategy...

A new, faint UI cue in a Windows 11 Insider build suggests Microsoft is testing a tighter Copilot tie‑in inside File Explorer — an invisible button that appears when you hover over a blank spot in the navigation bar and which, according to strings found in preview code, may be labeled "Chat with...

Microsoft’s big bet on embedding generative AI into Windows 11 has collided with the lived reality of millions of users: instead of clear productivity gains, many report slower machines, flaky features, and invasive telemetry-like behaviors that have turned excitement into exasperation for both...

A compact, community-built PowerShell toolkit called RemoveWindowsAI has rapidly become the go-to shortcut for Windows 11 users who want to strip Copilot, Recall, and a broad sweep of built‑in AI surfaces from their PCs — but its convenience comes with real, measurable risks for update...

Microsoft's latest Windows 11 cumulative update—delivered as a mandatory security roll on April 11—triggered a fresh wave of user complaints about sluggish performance, disappearing icons, taskbar and Task Manager oddities, stalled updates and other core-function regressions; frustrated users...

Microsoft has quietly turned Windows 11’s on-device AI into a versioned, trackable set of components — publishing a dedicated “Release information for AI components” page and beginning to treat models and runtimes as first-class, independently updated parts of the OS. Background Microsoft’s...

Microsoft hasn’t said “Windows 12” out loud — and yet everything from Copilot’s widening footprint to a new class of Copilot+ PCs points to a single, strategic truth: Windows is being rebuilt into an AI-first platform, and Microsoft is deliberately choosing to evolve the experience inside...

AMD’s CES 2026 keynote pushed the Ryzen AI 400 family front and center — AMD says these Zen 5-based APUs deliver major Windows 11 performance uplifts and AI acceleration that put Team Red ahead in the new Copilot+ PC era, but the numbers and comparisons carry important caveats that every buyer...

A new update to the popular FlyOOBE utility has added a targeted way to hunt down and remove Windows 11’s built‑in AI surfaces — but it also brings the exact trade‑offs that make deep OS surgery both powerful and risky for enthusiasts and admins alike. Background / Overview FlyOOBE (formerly...

A single‑click PowerShell tool that strips Windows 11 of its newly integrated AI components has crystallized into a one‑stop solution for power users who want the old, quieter Windows back — but it is not a simple "fix" and carries real technical and support risks that demand attention before...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 25H2 builds ship a broad set of on‑device AI features — from Copilot to Recall, Input Insights, and context‑sensitive AI Actions — yet there is no single, official “kill switch” in the Settings UI that fully removes or permanently disables every AI component, forcing...