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Microsoft is quietly rolling out a user-facing control to stop AI assistants from reading app windows directly from the Windows 11 taskbar — a small setting with outsized implications for privacy, IT management, and how people will interact with on-device AI going forward. Background Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer content to live in a sidebar — recent Windows 11 Insider builds tuck it into File Explorer and even add a floating “Share with Copilot” affordance to the taskbar, making the assistant a one‑click presence inside the places most users visit daily. The changes are...

Microsoft Edge’s long‑running, accessibility‑focused reading surface is being reworked in Canary builds so that the classic one‑click “Read aloud” action can launch Microsoft’s Copilot Vision assistant instead of immediately starting text‑to‑speech — a subtle UI change with outsized implications...

Microsoft is rolling Copilot Vision into Windows — a permissioned, session‑based capability that lets the Copilot app “see” one or two app windows or a shared desktop region and provide contextual, step‑by‑step help, highlights that point to UI elements, and multimodal responses (voice or typed)...

Microsoft has begun a staggered, OS‑level rollout of its AI assistant Copilot across Windows 11, turning what was once a sidebar experiment into a multimodal platform woven into the taskbar, Start menu, File Explorer and core update channels while other Windows 11 components—from Sticky Notes to...

Microsoft pushed the first cumulative for Windows 11 in 2026 — KB5074109 — to devices on January 13, 2026, folding last month’s preview fixes and a raft of staged, Copilot-era UI and gaming polish into the 24H2/25H2 servicing stream while also addressing several reliability concerns that...

Microsoft is now testing a permissioned ability to share your entire desktop with Copilot Vision on Windows 11, letting the AI “see” everything visible on your screen during a session and respond in real time — a change Microsoft says is opt‑in, visible while active, and stoppable at any time...

Microsoft’s Edge Canary for Android has quietly absorbed two of the browser’s more ambitious AI features — Copilot Vision and Journeys — bringing visual understanding and project-style session memory to mobile testers and signaling a clear push to make Edge a productivity-first, context-aware...

Microsoft is switching on a trio of Microsoft Teams messaging protections by default for tenants that still use the out‑of‑the‑box configuration, a move that will automatically enable weaponizable file type protection, malicious URL detection, and an end‑user false‑positive reporting mechanism...

Windows 11’s steady, iterative rollout in 2025 delivered a surprising mix of practical polish and bold AI experiments — features that finally push the OS from a cosmetic refresh into something that changes daily workflows for millions of users. The year brought visible usability fixes (Settings...

Microsoft has started rolling out a targeted Insider preview that lets Copilot edit text in-place during a Copilot Vision session — a real‑time “rewrite, refine, edit” mode that inserts suggested changes directly into whatever document or text field you’re sharing, with a preview step before any...

Microsoft’s latest update to Copilot turns Windows 11 into a genuinely conversational, screen‑aware assistant you can summon with voice, show your work to, and — with explicit permission — let perform multi‑step tasks on your behalf, while Microsoft pairs those software advances with a new...

Microsoft is quietly experimenting with a new way to surface Copilot Vision in Edge Canary: instead of launching the feature from the browser’s internal visual companion page, Edge can now open Vision from the cloud at copilot.microsoft.com — an experiment that, if finalized, would shift image...

Microsoft’s latest holiday-themed YouTube ad that spotlights Copilot Vision and the “Hey, Copilot” voice experience landed with more heat than cheer — a short, warm-hearted commercial meant to normalize talking to your PC instead amplified a long‑running user revolt over Microsoft’s ever‑deeper...

Microsoft’s new holiday ad that pitches Windows 11 as a “PC you can talk to” — a short, festive clip built around the wake phrase “Hey, Copilot” — has landed with more heat than cheer, and the backlash exposes a deeper fault line between marketing promise and product reality that could cost...

Microsoft’s new holiday ad asks a simple question with a loaded implication: “what if your computer could talk back?” — and then answers it by putting Copilot front and center in a one‑minute family scene that’s meant to be cozy but landed as anything but unanimous cheer. The commercial, rolled...

Microsoft’s bold promise — that you’ll “talk to your PC, have it understand you, and then be able to have magic happen” — now collides with a growing body of real‑world tests and user reports showing that Windows Copilot often falls short of that marketing vision, producing misidentifications...

Microsoft’s marketing line — that Windows is “evolving into an agentic OS” — landed like a splash of cold water on long‑time users this week, triggering an unusually intense wave of online backlash that exposed a widening trust gap between Microsoft’s AI ambitions and what many people want from...

Microsoft’s pitch to “create confidently with AI” is both an invitation and a challenge: the company is rolling AI image generation into Copilot and related tools in a way that makes visual creation fast, approachable, and deeply integrated — but it also raises a host of practical, legal, and...

Microsoft is quietly testing a major shift in how Windows 11 surfaces discovery and assistance: the familiar taskbar Search box can now be replaced, optionally, by an “Ask Copilot anything” chat-style pill that mixes instant local search results with Copilot’s conversational, voice, and vision...