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Dell’s blunt admission — that most buyers aren’t choosing laptops because of AI — landed like a splash of cold water across the CES 2026 stage, and the timing couldn’t have been worse for the Windows 11 AI story: while Dell quietly pulls back AI-first marketing, a highly visible Copilot fail in...

Dell’s blunt admission that consumers aren’t buying “AI PCs” and that AI-first marketing can confuse more than compel is the most candid recognition yet that the industry’s bet on on-device artificial intelligence as a near-term volume driver has not paid off the way vendors and platform...

Microsoft’s Copilot has moved fast from a neat demo into a pervasive, multi‑headed AI assistant that now sits in Windows, in Microsoft 365 apps, in the Edge browser, and on phones — but it’s more than a chatbot: it’s a layered platform with distinct product tiers, on‑device acceleration...

With the dust settling on the Windows 11 refresh cycle, the PC market’s next commercial battleground is clear: turning a rapidly growing installed base of AI-capable PCs into sustained, measurable everyday use. Recent market trackers show that a large and growing share of European PCs sold in...

The end of mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 reshaped the PC market and the decisions facing IT teams, consumers and PC makers, turning what had been a slow-moving migration into a year-long rush: a surge of PC refresh purchases, an industry-wide debate about hardware...

Microsoft’s hard deadline for Windows 10 support has done more than close a chapter—it has created a practical fulcrum for CIOs deciding whether to treat the PC refresh cycle as a routine capital project or as the moment to reshape the endpoint as an AI-first productivity platform. Organizations...

Microsoft’s Copilot+ experiment fizzled as a commercial category, but the initiative did what Microsoft needed most: it forced the PC industry to level up hardware, stabilize minimum specifications for AI-ready machines, and accelerate a broader shift toward an AI-capable Windows ecosystem...

The PC upgrade cycle that vendors promised would rocket with the arrival of “AI PCs” has instead become a slow, uneven crawl — a market shaped less by a single, dramatic buyer pivot than by technical gates, enterprise risk calculations, rising component costs, and a murky, still‑forming value...

Dell’s blunt message in its latest earnings call — that the transition to Windows 11 is trailing the pace of past OS migrations — is more than a corporate talking point; it reframes the near-term outlook for PC demand, enterprise migration planning, and how OEMs and channel partners will...

The era of the AI PC has arrived: laptop makers, silicon designers and Microsoft have reworked the basic architecture of Windows notebooks so that a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) sits alongside the CPU and GPU, and Microsoft’s Copilot+ stack is the first operating-system-level effort to...

Dell’s blunt numbers — spoken on a recent earnings call — pulled the curtain back on a messy reality: roughly 500 million PCs that technically meet Windows 11’s requirements are refusing to upgrade, and another 500 million machines are simply too old to run Microsoft’s current desktop OS. Those...

Microsoft has quietly — and decisively — moved Copilot out of its chat-box corner and into the center of the Windows 11 experience, turning the assistant into a hands‑free, screen‑aware productivity layer you can summon with the wake words “Hey, Copilot”, let view the exact window you’re working...

Forty years ago a boxed copy of Microsoft Windows left a factory and quietly rewired how people work, play, and think about personal computers — a journey that runs from the tiled, mouse-driven experiments of Windows 1.0 to the AI‑steeped Windows 11 and Copilot era of today. Background /...

A striking new fan concept called Windows 26 captures a clear counterpoint to Microsoft’s current roadmap: instead of an ever‑present, proactive AI layer, the design imagines a quieter, faster, and more user‑first Windows that returns to polished visuals, consistent themes, and optional...

Forty years after Microsoft shipped the first Windows to manufacturers on November 20, 1985, the OS that built the modern PC era is at once celebrating a milestone and confronting one of its most fractious public moments: a rapid pivot toward agentic, AI-first features that many users are...

Dell’s 2024 forecast that “AI PCs” would trigger a broad laptop refresh has proven partly prophetic — but not in the tidy, single-cause way the company pitched. The industry did see a meaningful replacement wave through 2025, driven first by a hard calendar deadline (Windows 10 end-of-support)...

If your business is still running a 2020 PC on Windows 10, you’re no longer debating convenience versus expense — you’re choosing whether to accept an unpatched attack surface, slower AI-enabled workflows, and a growing compliance liability that can reach well beyond IT budgets. Recent industry...

Microsoft’s decision to pull the security plug on Windows 10 has done more than force millions to choose how — and when — to upgrade; it has also reshuffled the PC market, creating a calendar‑driven replacement wave that is materially boosting shipments across the industry and, surprisingly to...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update turns Copilot from a sidebar helper into a conversational, screen‑aware assistant that can act on your behalf — you can now say “Hey Copilot,” watch it see your screen, and grant it scoped permissions to manage files and cloud data as part of a broader push...

Lenovo reinforced its lead in the global PC market in the third quarter of 2025 as shipment volumes rebounded across the industry, with HP and Dell holding steady in the runner-up positions and ASUS posting the fastest quarter‑on‑quarter growth amid a Windows 10 end‑of‑support‑driven refresh...