Microsoft appears to be preparing a purpose-built OneDrive app for Windows 11 that foregrounds photos, video, and AI-driven file interactions — a move that could reshape how OneDrive is used on PCs while raising familiar questions about performance, privacy, and licensing.
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Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 feature refresh bundles a broad mix of AI-powered productivity tools, under‑the‑hood security work, and quality‑of‑life improvements—eleven headline items that aim to both accelerate daily workflows and push users toward the company’s more secure platform as Windows...
Microsoft appears to be testing a purpose‑built, photos‑first OneDrive application for Windows 11 that blends a refreshed gallery-centric UI with deeper Copilot-powered file intelligence — a leak reported by multiple outlets and corroborated by pre-release artifacts discovered in Microsoft test...
Microsoft's latest OneDrive leak paints the clearest picture yet of where Microsoft wants file storage and photo experiences to sit inside Windows: a modern, photo-first interface that borrows heavily from Windows 11 visuals while leaning on web-based delivery models that the company has been...
Microsoft Edge is quietly being rebuilt around Copilot: recent tests show you can now point the browser’s AI at the tabs you have open — literally sending those tabs into a Copilot conversation — and Microsoft is preparing a complementary feature called Journeys that would summarize days of your...
Microsoft’s Windows engineering teams have been reunified under a single organizational umbrella and, in the same breath, a controversial report has surfaced claiming Microsoft 365 Copilot has only about 8 million paying subscribers — developments that together cast a long shadow over...
Microsoft appears to be testing a dedicated, photos-first OneDrive app for Windows 11 that bundles a built-in gallery, enhanced photo organization, and Copilot intelligence — a leak that paints a clear picture of a strategic shift in how Microsoft wants users to interact with OneDrive on the PC...
Microsoft has begun the staged rollout of the Windows 11 25H2 update — an incremental, enablement-package-based release that unlocks a raft of AI-enhanced capabilities, a redesigned Start menu, richer lock‑screen widgets, improved energy and recovery tools, and targeted enterprise manageability...
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Microsoft’s new consumer play is simple on the surface and strategic in the long run: Microsoft 365 Premium bundles the desktop Office apps, 1 TB of OneDrive storage, consumer-grade Microsoft Defender protections and the company’s highest-usage Copilot features into a single $19.99-per-month...
Microsoft has quietly formalized what many IT teams have feared and many employees have quietly hoped for: the ability to run a consumer Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription inside work applications, enabling personal Copilot access to corporate documents when a user signs into an app with both a...
Microsoft’s latest Copilot update isn’t a small UI tweak — it’s a deliberate shift toward agentic work inside Office, where multi-step AI agents plan, execute, validate, and iterate inside Excel, Word, and Copilot chat to produce spreadsheets, documents, and slide decks. This “vibe working” push...
Microsoft just restructured its consumer productivity lineup around AI: Microsoft 365 Premium bundles the full desktop Office apps with the company’s most advanced Copilot features, expanded usage allowances, one terabyte of OneDrive storage per person and built‑in Defender protections — all for...
A sweeping industry analysis released this month warns that Microsoft’s Copilot — the productivity AI now embedded across Microsoft 365 — is touching orders of magnitude more sensitive corporate data than many IT teams realize, with one vendor-backed study reporting nearly three million...
Microsoft is taking the bet that mainstream productivity software will be judged by how well it weaves AI into everyday tasks, and today it has pulled those threads into a single consumer subscription: Microsoft 365 Premium, a new individual and family-focused plan that bundles Office apps with...
Microsoft has quietly widened the model roster behind Microsoft 365 Copilot, adding Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to a new Office Agent in Copilot chat that can produce ready‑to‑use PowerPoint decks and Word documents from a single, high‑level instruction — a move that...
Microsoft's Copilot is quietly evolving from a single-purpose chat assistant into a platform that can reach into multiple clouds, mailboxes, and even new conversational personalities — and recent testing artifacts suggest the next wave of features will make that transformation far more visible...
Windows keeps getting updated, and the quickest way to know what it’s doing on your PC is to check the version — a step that takes seconds but can shape whether your apps run, your data stays protected, and whether features like Copilot are even available to you. This practical guide explains...
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Microsoft is putting a face — deliberately stylized, tightly guarded, and experiment-first — on Copilot by rolling out a new Copilot Labs feature called Portraits, a real‑time animated portrait system that lip‑syncs, nods, and emotes during voice conversations and is currently available only to...
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Microsoft’s Windows engineering teams have been reunited under a single organizational roof in a high‑stakes move aimed at accelerating the company’s push to make Windows an “Agentic OS” — an operating system that blends multimodal inputs, on‑device intelligence, and cloud orchestration so the...
Microsoft’s Copilot just moved from helper to hands‑on collaborator: Agent Mode now sits inside Word and Excel, and a chat‑first Office Agent can produce full Word documents and PowerPoint decks directly from the Copilot chat window. The features — rolled out first to Microsoft’s Frontier...