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A new open‑source PowerShell project called RemoveWindowsAI has quickly become the focal point for a growing cohort of Windows 11 users who want to strip AI features out of their PCs, and the tool’s rise exposes an uncomfortable design tension: Microsoft is baking AI into system plumbing while...

A PowerShell script that promises to strip Windows 11 of its AI features has rocketed through developer communities and mainstream tech press, fueling a debate that goes far beyond convenience: it is now a litmus test for how much control users should have over AI that ships as part of an...

A single PowerShell script has become the latest flashpoint in the debate over Windows 11’s expanding AI surface: RemoveWindowsAI, a GitHub project that automates the removal of Copilot, Recall, AI-enhanced apps and hidden installers — and then attempts to block their reinstallation. Background...

Google’s Gemini emerged as the clearer day-to-day assistant in a hands‑on ZDNET comparison against Microsoft’s Copilot, winning four of seven real‑world tasks — but the headline hides important nuance: each tool still shines in different workflows, and reliability, grounding, and ecosystem fit...

The Property Council’s new half‑day course, Copilot Essentials for the Property Sector, packages a practical, role‑focused introduction to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and is explicitly built to help property managers, asset teams and shopping‑centre administrators apply AI to reporting...

Microsoft’s AI push across Windows has reached a critical inflection point — one where bold technical ambition collides with real user expectations, privacy anxieties, and the hard economics of enterprise adoption. The company’s drive to make AI a first‑class part of the operating system — from...

Microsoft’s AI push has shifted from a set of optional helpers to the declared center of Windows’ roadmap, and that pivot is already reshaping what it means to own — and trust — a Windows PC. The MakeUseOf piece captures the unease many users feel: built‑in assistants that watch, index, and in...

Closing a frozen app on Windows 11 can be a two‑second fix or a data‑loss disaster — knowing the right tool for the job, when to use it, and the risks involved is the difference between a smooth recovery and hours of troubleshooting. Background Windows 11 provides multiple built‑in ways to close...

Microsoft’s plan to turn Windows into an AI-first platform has collided with the stubborn reality of users who value stability, control and predictable upgrades — and the resulting standoff is exposing a massive gap between marketing ambition and user willingness to follow. A cluster of vendor...

Microsoft’s official Microsoft Store Awards 2025 announcement landed as a clear manifesto: this year’s winners were chosen and presented by Microsoft with an unmistakable emphasis on AI-driven apps — and the decision to skip a public nomination and community-voting phase has left developers...

Microsoft hasn’t said “Windows 12” out loud, but the leaks, Insider breadcrumbs, and vendor roadmaps paint a clear theme: the next major Windows will be an AI-first, modular OS that leans on on‑device neural hardware, and many of the pieces are already being tested in Windows 11 and Copilot+...

The Microsoft Store Awards 2025 winners list reads like a snapshot of the Windows ecosystem today: heavyweight AI assistants, studio-grade creative tools, and next‑generation automation platforms all recognized for shipping experiences that push Windows forward — from desktop-first models to...

We are standing at a hinge point for Windows: Microsoft has quietly turned a decade-long strategy of incremental updates into an explicit, AI-first platform play, and the next big shift — whether it’s called Windows 12 or something else — promises to be more than cosmetic. Recent commentary...

Microsoft’s recent pronouncement that “Windows is evolving into an agentic OS” landed like a hand-grenade in the user community: what was meant as a headline for an AI-first roadmap instead reignited long-standing grievances about performance, stability, and the creeping sense that the operating...

Microsoft has quietly shipped a targeted update to the Phi Silica on‑device language model — KB5072642, which installs Phi Silica version 1.2511.1196.0 on Intel‑powered Copilot+ systems running Windows 11 (24H2 and 25H2) — a small, incremental but important release in Microsoft's ongoing...

Microsoft’s blunt advisory that Windows 11’s experimental “agentic” AI features introduce novel security risks has refocused a long-running debate about where convenience ends and vulnerability begins — and it arrived not as a marketing footnote but as a front‑page safety notice built into...

Microsoft’s own documentation now admits what security researchers have long feared: the new agentic features in Windows 11 — agents that can act on your behalf, click and type inside apps, and read and modify local files — come with real, material security risks, including the possibility that...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 is moving from “suggest and assist” to “do for you”: a new Agent Workspace preview lets AI agents run in their own contained desktop session and—if granted permission—open apps, read and write files, and perform UI-level actions on behalf of the user, a shift Microsoft...

Microsoft’s attempt to make Windows “agentic” — an operating system that runs persistent AI assistants capable of taking actions on behalf of users — triggered one of the most intense waves of user criticism Microsoft has faced in years, exposing a deep gap between Big Tech product narratives...

Microsoft’s latest AI push for Windows — framed in executive posts as Windows “evolving into an agentic OS” and showcased at Microsoft Ignite — touched off an unusually sharp, public backlash that exposed a widening gap between the company’s AI-first marketing and the everyday priorities of...