Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 7 arrives as a tidy, well-engineered Copilot+ laptop that clearly hits the brief for battery life, build quality, and on-device AI acceleration — yet the real-world experience described by some owners and reviewers exposes a stubborn seam between polished hardware and...
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Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly evolving from a conversational assistant into a multi-modal, transactional platform — and recent test-build evidence shows the company is explicitly styling that evolution around three pillars: search that surfaces explicit references, shopping and order...
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Microsoft’s Windows 11 25H2 arrives as a compact, operationally focused update: an enablement package that flips on capabilities already seeded into the platform, adds a handful of practical conveniences (notably a native sudo command, archive handling in File Explorer, and groundwork for Wi‑Fi...
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Microsoft pushed a new Windows 11 preview update (KB5065782) into Insider rings on September 12, 2025, delivering a focused set of Copilot-era UX refinements—most notably a redesigned Click to Do prompt box with on‑device suggestion support, updated gesture animations, Emoji 16.0, and several...
Microsoft’s September Patchday for Windows 11 goes beyond the usual security checklist, delivering a collection of visible UI refinements, expanded on‑device AI scaffolding for Copilot features, and a number of convenience updates that range from a revised Recall landing page to a seconds...
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Microsoft has released the September 2025 cumulative security update for Windows 11, version 24H2 — KB5065426 (OS Build 26100.6584) — a combined Latest Cumulative Update (LCU) and Servicing Stack Update (SSU) that delivers security hardening, targeted bug fixes, AI component updates for Copilot+...
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...
Microsoft's Copilot app for Windows 11 just received a redesign that does more than tidy the chat window — it reorganizes Copilot into a Start menu–style hub that surfaces recent files, apps, and ongoing work, and hints at a deeper future in which the AI assistant becomes the central navigation...
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Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows 11 is shedding its “chat-first” skin and opening a new, dashboard-style Home tab that behaves less like a conversational window and more like an AI-centric Start menu — surfacing recent files, apps, conversations, and guided help in one place.
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Microsoft’s latest round of Windows 11 updates doubles down on on-device AI, delivering new voice, camera, and Copilot integrations specifically for Copilot+ PCs while sharpening the split between NPU-equipped machines and the larger Windows installed base.
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Microsoft’s latest Insider Preview builds bring a tangible — and in many ways overdue — improvement to speech-to-text on Windows by introducing Fluid Dictation inside Voice Access, a smarter, faster, on-device dictation mode designed to make spoken text appear as natural, punctuated prose rather...
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Microsoft has released an optional preview cumulative update for Windows 11, version 24H2 — KB5064081 — which advances eligible machines to OS Build 26100.5074 and bundles a mix of staged AI features, UI polish, reliability fixes, and a servicing‑stack refresh; many of the consumer‑facing...
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Windows 11’s AI-first push has turned into a study in contradictions: promising productivity shortcuts and local intelligence on one hand, and on the other hand delivering a fragmented, confusing, and sometimes privacy-ambiguous user experience that many feel undermines the core job of an...
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Microsoft has quietly begun testing a conversational, meaning‑aware file and image search inside the Copilot app on Windows 11, a change that lets you describe what you’re looking for instead of hunting for exact filenames — and it’s arriving first to Copilot+ PCs as a staged Windows Insider...
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Microsoft’s Copilot app for Windows has received a staged Insider update that adds conversational, semantic file search on Copilot+ PCs and a redesigned Copilot home that surfaces recent apps, files and conversations — all packaged in Copilot app builds starting with version 1.25082.132.0 and...
Microsoft has begun rolling out an update to the Copilot app on Windows that brings semantic file search to Copilot+ PCs and a redesigned Copilot homepage to Insiders, delivering tighter, AI-driven file discovery and faster access to recent apps, files, and guided help directly inside the...
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Microsoft’s staged rollout that lets Arm-based Windows 11 PCs download and run compatible games locally marks a decisive inflection point for the platform: it’s the first time Microsoft has tied visible storefront changes to deep platform work — a modernized x86→Arm translation layer, OS-level...
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The latest Windows Weekly episode—packed with the usual blend of skepticism, insider detail, and offhand humor—landed like a rapid-fire briefing on everything Microsoft-adjacent: Patch Tuesday’s AI-first fixes and recovery tools, Windows 11 on Arm finally gaining real creative-app parity, a...
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Today Microsoft pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27924 to the Canary Channel, and with it a clear signal of where the company is placing its engineering bets: fast-moving platform work coupled with an expanding set of Copilot+ PC experiences (and the trade-offs that come with...
Today’s Canary-channel flight, Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27924, marks a significant push by Microsoft into earlier-stage platform experimentation — and it ships with a packed, sometimes contentious mix of AI-driven features for Copilot+ PCs, new system-level settings, app updates, and...