ai in windows

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...

Microsoft’s latest pivot on Windows 11 AI — a new, system-level prompt that will ask for explicit consent before any AI-powered agent accesses your personal files — is a meaningful course correction that addresses the most visible privacy complaint about agentic features, but it is not a...

Microsoft has quietly changed the conversation about AI inside Windows 11: the operating system will now prompt for explicit permission before any on‑device AI agent can read or act on files stored in a user’s personal “known folders” — Documents, Desktop, Downloads, Pictures, Music and Videos...

Microsoft industry watchers are now widely predicting a Windows 12-era pivot to AI‑native PCs — and several respected outlets argue the next numbered Windows release will arrive no later than 2027, with October often suggested as the likely month for a public launch. Background / Overview...

A compact, open‑source PowerShell project now circulating on GitHub promises to strip most of Windows 11’s newly embedded AI features — including Copilot and Recall — out of a PC with a single command and an optional GUI, and the reaction is a textbook mix of relief, alarm and operational...

Microsoft has begun rolling OpenAI’s GPT‑5.2 into Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, placing a new two‑mode model family—GPT‑5.2 Instant for fast day‑to‑day writing and translation, and GPT‑5.2 Thinking for deeper reasoning and planning—directly into the flow of office work and agent...

A new, community‑built PowerShell project called RemoveWindowsAI promises a one‑stop way to strip Windows 11 of the platform’s recent AI surfaces — Copilot, Recall, AI Actions in apps, and many Appx/MSIX packages — and it has sparked a heated debate about user choice, update fragility, and who...

The latest hands‑on head‑to‑head testing that compares Google’s Gemini 3 and Microsoft’s Copilot finds a clear practical winner for everyday, web‑grounded tasks — and it isn’t even close in several categories. The hands‑on review that sparked the debate ran seven real‑world desktop prompts...