Microsoft’s latest wave of Copilot upgrades makes one clear argument: the “AI PC” label might finally move from marketing slogan to practical reality. What began as chat windows and isolated features has been reengineered into a system-level assistant that listens, sees, and — in carefully...
Microsoft’s short, teasing post — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — may be the clearest signal yet that Windows 11 is poised to push voice and conversational AI from an accessible add‑on into a mainstream, system‑level...
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Microsoft’s brief, teasing message — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — landed across social channels and tech press as an intentional pivot in messaging: short, evocative, and timed to maximize attention as millions of Windows...
Microsoft's short, cheeky tease — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday” — is more than a playful marketing line; it’s the clearest public hint yet that Microsoft plans to push voice and multimodal interaction farther into Windows’...
Microsoft’s incremental but meaningful upgrade to the Windows 11 Settings experience has just landed in the Beta channel preview — and it makes the OS’s best AI feature noticeably more useful, but only for Copilot+ PCs with the necessary on‑device NPU hardware.
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The Windows PC market is at an inflection point: with Windows 10 reaching end of support on October 14, 2025, Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC push and the steady maturation of Windows on Arm have collided into a single practical question for IT buyers — is now the right time to embrace Arm-based PCs for...
Microsoft’s latest Insider checkpoint quietly advances one of Windows’ oldest gestures — dragging files — and pairs it with sharper AI-driven settings and assistant polish in the same preview roll-up (KB5067103). The headliner is a redesigned Drag Tray that now supports multi-file sharing...
Microsoft’s latest Insider flight delivers a clearer glimpse of where Windows is headed: a Settings app that acts less like a static control panel and more like a proactive assistant, with a staged release tied to Copilot+ hardware and an enablement package that many Insiders will see as Build...
Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6780 (KB5067103) to the Dev Channel, continuing the 25H2-era enablement-package cadence and delivering a mix of incremental Copilot-era experiments, UI polish, and a pack of reliability fixes — while reminding Insiders that many of the...
Acer South Africa has launched a timed “Make the Switch” push to help consumers move from Windows 10 to Windows 11 by bundling AI‑ready hardware, warranty and retailer incentives just as Microsoft’s Windows 10 support window closes on October 14, 2025.
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Microsoft’s latest pitch for an “intelligent Windows” is being built around a tiny chip inside some new laptops — the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) — but the business case, user benefits, and long-term implications remain murky even as device makers rush to ship AI-capable hardware.
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Microsoft’s slow-but-steady march to a truly consistent dark theme in Windows has taken a visible step forward: the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview in the Dev Channel finally extends dark mode into the previously stubborn light-mode pockets of File Explorer, while also adding a handful of...
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Microsoft has started the staged rollout of the Windows 11 Version 25H2 update — a lightweight, enablement-package style release that flips on a year’s worth of AI integrations, UI polish, and security hardening for supported devices while tightening setup and legacy cleanup across the platform...
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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ASUS’ refreshed ExpertBook laptops and ExpertCenter desktops for 2025 have quietly arrived in the Philippines, bringing a sweeping mix of Copilot+ AI features, Intel Core and AMD Ryzen AI silicon options, and aggressively positioned price points aimed at SMBs and enterprise fleets. The line-up...
Microsoft's latest annual Windows 11 feature update landed this week, but one of the security items that promised to change how administrators elevate privileges in office and enterprise environments will not be ready for immediate deployment — Administrator Protection has been pushed out of...
Microsoft’s Photos app on Windows 11 just learned a tidy new habit: it will now automatically sort certain types of images into focused collections so you can find receipts, screenshots, IDs, and notes without digging through months of camera-roll clutter. This change — shipped as an Insider...
Microsoft has quietly pushed KB5068002, a targeted Windows Update that refreshes the AMD Vitis AI Execution Provider to version 1.8.25.0 for eligible Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, version 24H2, delivering a compact—but consequential—component update for on‑device AI acceleration.
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Microsoft has quietly pushed KB5067994, an AI component update that advances the Qualcomm QNN Execution Provider used by ONNX Runtime to version 1.8.13.0 for Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, version 24H2 — a targeted, per‑silicon runtime refresh delivered automatically through Windows Update...
Microsoft’s claim that a “tiny” chip will make Windows noticeably smarter is no longer vaporware: the company has formally tied the next wave of Windows intelligence to dedicated neural processing hardware — Neural Processing Units (NPUs) — and a new device tier called Copilot+ PCs, which must...