ai in windows

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...

Microsoft’s preview of a Windows 11 framework for third‑party AI agents marks a decisive step toward what Microsoft calls an “agentic OS” — an operating system that doesn’t just host apps and files, but hosts persistent, auditable AI assistants that can act on users’ behalf. The company is...

Windows is trying to do for AI agents what it once did for applications: make the desktop the obvious place to discover, run, and manage intelligent helpers that can do work for you — not just answer questions — and Microsoft has already shipped the plumbing and the guardrails that will decide...

Microsoft’s 2025 Windows 11 story is less about a single blockbuster release and more about steady, deliberate accretion: a stream of AI-first features, polish to long-neglected apps, and a clear hardware split between baseline Windows 11 and the new Copilot+ tier. The roundup that follows...

Microsoft finished 2025 with its most consequential year-in-review in recent memory: impressive financial momentum driven by cloud and AI, matched by persistent product and consumer-facing missteps that damaged trust in Windows, strained Xbox’s consumer business, and left many long-time users...

Paul Thurrott’s RunAsRadio appearance — recorded as episode #1016 — framed 2025 as a decisive, messy year for Windows: leadership changes, a renewed engineering re-unification, an aggressive hardware-first AI strategy, and renewed enthusiasm for Windows on Arm that together set the stage for a...

A compact, community-built PowerShell project called RemoveWindowsAI has rapidly become the easiest one‑click way for Windows 11 users to strip most of Microsoft’s on‑device AI surfaces — including Copilot, Recall, Paint’s Image Creator, voice‑access hooks and a raft of AI‑labelled Appx packages...

Microsoft's latest Insider preview build makes a small but meaningful tweak to how voice typing integrates with the on‑screen touch keyboard in Windows 11, shifting dictation from a full‑screen overlay into a compact, in‑keyboard indicator that preserves context and reduces visual interruption...

Microsoft has set a hard line under a decade-long chapter of desktop computing: Windows 10’s support window is closed, and Windows 11 is being remade as a native AI platform — a shift that matters differently in Dar es Salaam, Arusha, and remote towns across Tanzania than it does in Silicon...

I spent a week with a Copilot+ PC—the Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro—to test whether on‑device AI in Windows actually makes day‑to‑day computing faster, safer or simply more expensive, and the results are a nuanced mix of genuinely useful improvements, emerging risks and a still‑immature ecosystem...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview, build 26220.7523 (KB5072043), pushes Windows 11 further down the path to an “agentic” desktop by placing Ask Copilot on the taskbar for commercial users, adding system‑level Agent Launchers that let apps register AI agents, and giving Narrator a rare and...

A one‑stop utility that promises to strip Windows 11 of its new AI surfaces with a single click has re‑ignited a long‑running debate: is aggressive debloating a legitimate way for users to reclaim control, or a risky hack that can leave systems fragile and unsupported? Background / Overview...

Microsoft’s latest Insider cumulative update, packaged as KB5072043 and published for the Windows 11 Insider Preview (Build 26220.7523), formally introduces a developer- and platform-level feature called Agent Launchers — a standardized framework that lets apps register interactive AI agents so...

Microsoft’s latest move to make Windows 11 an “agentic” operating system — where AI agents can act on behalf of users, open apps, and manipulate files — has triggered a fierce debate about privacy, consent, and a changed security model for the desktop. Background / Overview Microsoft has begun...