GitHub’s engineering team has quietly begun what insiders are calling an “existential” migration: over the next 12 to 24 months the platform will move the bulk of its infrastructure off of its own Virginia-based data centers and onto Microsoft Azure — a change that will reshape GitHub’s...
Windows 11’s 25H2 release is now rolling out as a lightweight enablement package that flips already‑shipped features on top of 24H2, delivering an incremental but important servicing milestone for consumers, power users, and IT teams alike.
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Microsoft has pushed three new Windows 11 Insider Preview builds into the Canary, Dev and Beta channels, packing a handful of practical UI tweaks for early testers and a larger, targeted cumulative update (KB5065797) that advances the Dev/Beta feature streams for 25H2/24H2 respectively. The...
Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025 — after that date Microsoft will stop shipping regular OS security updates, quality fixes, and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions unless a device is covered by an approved extension program.
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Microsoft is rolling out Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.6772 (KB5065797) to the Beta Channel, and this flight brings targeted AI-driven enhancements for Copilot+ PCs, a notable expansion of Windows Hello Enhanced Sign‑in Security to peripheral fingerprint readers, new OOBE options for...
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 has given the familiar tiles of Microsoft 365 a fresh coat of paint — the company unveiled a coherent redesign of its core app icons that replaces the blocky, angular motifs of the last era with softer curves, richer gradients, and an aesthetic explicitly tied to its Copilot-era...
Microsoft has quietly — and deliberately — given the icons that millions of people rely on every day a fresh, more fluid look, with new Microsoft 365 icons rolling out as part of a broader visual push that ties Office app identity to the company’s Copilot AI story.
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Microsoft’s Office icons have received their first sweeping visual refresh since 2018, a deliberate redesign that ties the suite’s visual language to the company’s Copilot identity and signals a broader shift toward AI‑forward productivity across Windows, web and mobile.
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Microsoft’s consumer productivity bundle just got a heavy dose of AI: Microsoft 365 Premium folds advanced Copilot capabilities into a single subscription that bundles the desktop Office apps, 1 TB of OneDrive per user, and consumer-grade Defender protections — all for a headline price of about...
Microsoft has quietly — but deliberately — given the 10 core Microsoft 365 app icons their first major visual overhaul since 2018, aligning the suite’s visual language with Copilot and a broader push toward an “AI-first” productivity experience across Windows, web, and mobile.
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Microsoft 365 just became significantly more expensive for consumers, and for millions of longtime users the decision to keep paying is suddenly complicated: Microsoft has folded its AI assistant, Copilot, and its Designer image tools into the Microsoft 365 Personal and Family bundles, raised...
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Microsoft’s 2025 Windows 11 feature update — version 25H2 — arrives as a careful, operationally minded release rather than a headline-grabbing rework: it’s an enablement package that flips on features already staged in the 24H2 servicing stream, removes a few long‑deprecated tools, and resets...
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Today’s Beta-channel drop for Windows Insiders — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.6760 (KB5065793) — continues Microsoft’s cautious, staged approach to delivering Copilot-era features and quality fixes on top of the Windows 11, version 24H2 servicing stream. The release mixes modest...
Microsoft’s new 13-inch Surface Laptop tries to boil the Surface formula down to its essentials: an ultra-light, attractively finished clamshell powered by Qualcomm’s Arm silicon, long battery life, and a thin, bright PixelSense touchscreen — all tuned to showcase Microsoft’s Copilot+ on-device...
Microsoft released an out‑of‑band cumulative update for Windows 11 version 24H2 on September 22, 2025 — KB5068221 (OS Build 26100.6588) — that bundles quality fixes (including the fixes from the September 9, 2025 security rollup), updates several AI components, and quietly re‑emphasizes the...
Microsoft’s latest Paint update reframes the long‑running app as a serious low‑friction image editor by adding an editable project file format and per‑tool opacity controls — features that put Paint squarely in the conversation as a free, entry‑level alternative to Photoshop for everyday tasks...
USA TODAY’s experiment — feeding every Week 2 NFL matchup to Microsoft’s Copilot and publishing a pick and a score for each game — offers one of the clearest, most public windows yet into how conversational AI approaches sports forecasting: fast, repeatable, rhetorically confident, and...
Microsoft’s latest education push folds generative AI into the everyday toolkit of U.S. college students by making Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot available free for eligible students—an aggressive expansion of earlier trial offers that places Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook...
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USA TODAY's decision to run every Week 1 matchup through Microsoft Copilot produced a tidy, headline-friendly slate of predictions — and a revealing window into how modern large language models reason about sports: they reward established quarterbacks, prize defensive strength and coaching...