Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27943 to the Canary Channel — a compact, maintenance‑focused flight that addresses several user‑facing annoyances while flagging two significant deployment blockers Insiders and developers must weigh before installing.
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Microsoft is quietly moving generative AI from apps into the very heart of Windows by adding an AI Actions submenu to File Explorer — a right‑click surface that lets you run visual search or apply quick, model‑driven image edits without opening a separate editor. The capability, visible in the...
Microsoft has pushed a small but notable maintenance update for Windows 10 Insiders in the Release Preview Channel — Build 19045.6388 (KB5066198) — marking another effort to squeeze extra stability and reliability out of Windows 10 as its lifecycle winds down.
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Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Build 22631.5982 (KB5065790) to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel, delivering a broad set of reliability fixes and quality updates aimed at version 23H2 users and administrators.
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Microsoft is testing a set of context‑aware AI editing tools that sit directly in File Explorer, letting you right‑click an image or document and invoke tasks such as Bing Visual Search, background blur/removal, generative object erase, and document summarization — and there are documented ways...
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Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel experiment pushes intelligence deeper into the Windows shell: a new AI actions submenu in File Explorer lets you right‑click images to run Bing Visual Search, blur or remove backgrounds, and erase objects — all without opening a full editor. This context‑aware...
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Microsoft is quietly restoring a piece of the Windows 10 experience many users missed: a larger, in-your-face clock with seconds in the Notification Center — and it’s arriving alongside a set of AI shortcuts in File Explorer and new transparency controls for generative AI access in Windows 11’s...
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Microsoft’s latest Insider experiments have restored a small but widely requested convenience: the Notification Center can once again show a larger clock with seconds—and that option is appearing alongside a broader set of AI-focused trials in the Canary channel.
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Microsoft’s latest Canary-channel whisper landed with a familiar mix of small UX restorations and new AI shortcuts: Insiders running the reported Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27938 are seeing AI actions in File Explorer (visual search and quick image edits), a returning Notification Center...
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Microsoft has quietly restored the little thing that annoyed a surprising number of users: the expanded clock in Notification Center can once again show seconds — and that small user-experience win arrives alongside a broader set of AI-focused experiments that put generative image actions...
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On September 8, 2025 Microsoft pushed a fresh Canary-channel flight—reported as Build 27938—that strings together a set of small-but-significant UI and AI experiments. The visible pieces are straightforward: a new “AI actions” entry in File Explorer’s right‑click menu that surfaces image edits...
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Microsoft’s latest pre-release whisper to the Windows Insider Program’s most experimental ring landed with a thud of déjà vu: the Canary channel recently received a new build — reported as Build 27938 — that mainly repackages features already seen elsewhere in the Insider ecosystem, notably...
Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27938 to the Canary Channel, and the headline feature worth immediate attention is the introduction of AI actions in File Explorer — a right‑click context menu that brings image editing, web visual search, and document summarization into the...
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Microsoft pushed a small-but-significant Canary-channel preview on August 29, 2025, when Windows Insiders received Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27934, a focused flight that fixes several user-facing stability issues while adding an important caution for anyone relying on built‑in recovery...
Microsoft has quietly begun to reshape the sign‑in moment and a few long‑standing UI friction points in Windows 11, shipping a Beta/Canary preview that modernizes Windows Hello, refines the taskbar and system tray, and adds practical productivity shortcuts to Task Manager and jump lists —...
Microsoft’s latest survey of Microsoft Edge users reads like a product roadmap with question marks — a quiet probe that, if the signals are read correctly, points to a future where Copilot in Edge moves from summarizer to doer. The questionnaire currently circulating among Edge users asks not...
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Microsoft's latest Canary‑channel flight continues to dismantle the uneasy coexistence between the decades‑old Control Panel and the modern Settings app — and it does so with two quiet, consequential moves: a batch of time, date, and language controls have been migrated into Settings in Windows...
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Microsoft pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27928 to the Canary Channel on August 20, 2025, a compact but telling flight that temporarily disables a recent battery icon experiment while continuing the steady migration of legacy Control Panel controls into the modern Settings app and...
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Microsoft’s latest Canary drop, Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27928, is a compact but telling update: Microsoft temporarily disabled the recently introduced colorful battery icon experiment while continuing a steady migration of legacy Control Panel items into the modern Settings app and...
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Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel flight makes one thing painfully clear: the long, awkward coexistence between the old Control Panel and the modern Settings app is finally being resolved in Microsoft’s favor — and the pace has picked up. Build 27928, released to Insiders on August 20, 2025...
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