Microsoft’s Windows week delivered a heavy mix of stabilization, incremental feature rollouts, and operational housekeeping: official ISOs for Windows 11 version 25H2 are now available to Windows Insiders, Patch Tuesday delivered several quality fixes (including a restored clock in the calendar...
Microsoft’s latest Insider flight sharpens Windows 11’s Copilot integrations with a new inline Copilot prompt box inside Click to Do, debuts a curated set of Emoji 16.0 glyphs, and delivers a wide-ranging set of accessibility and stability fixes in Dev Channel Build 26220.6682 (KB5065782)—but...
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The image of a senior Xbox producer advising laid-off colleagues to “lean on AI” for emotional support crystallized a moment that many in tech already felt: the tools companies are using to reshape work are now being pitched as a balm for the wounds they helped inflict. Within hours of a...
Waitaki District Council’s cautious, staff-first rollout of generative AI shows how a small public body can harness large language models for practical gains—while keeping human judgment, privacy safeguards and governance firmly in the driver’s seat. The council’s chief digital officer, Teresa...
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Windows 11 quietly packs a toolbox of under-the-radar features that reward a little curiosity — everything from ultra-handy window management to productivity timers, built‑in screen capture, and modern passwordless sign‑in options. Many of these “hidden” tools aren’t new to power users but are...
OpenAI and Microsoft have quietly signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding that lays the groundwork for OpenAI to restructure its commercial arm into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) while preserving the nonprofit oversight that has defined the organization since its founding — a...
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Windows 11’s ongoing preview updates are delivering modest but meaningful changes this month: Microsoft has quietly applied reliability fixes to the taskbar’s auto‑hide behavior and is experimenting with surfacing Copilot suggestions inside the Start menu’s Recommended area. These two items —...
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Artificial intelligence has moved from boardroom buzzword to an operational imperative, yet many organisations remain stalled at the starting line — frozen by cost fears, data readiness questions and governance uncertainty — a gap that demands a practical, measurable path from enthusiasm to...
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Windows 11’s next wave of preview builds quietly delivers two of the most requested quality-of-life fixes for everyday users — smoother, more reliable taskbar auto-hide behavior and a pair of bug fixes that restore clickable space above the taskbar — while also ramping up Copilot’s visibility by...
Microsoft’s Windows 11 “25H2” arrives as an unusually quiet sequel: more maintenance than milestone, with a few welcome conveniences — like a native sudo command and archive creation in File Explorer — offset by a lack of headline-grabbing features and some missed opportunities that power users...
Windows 11’s latest Insider preview flight doubles down on Copilot: a new, inline prompt box appears inside the Click to Do context menu, Start shows example Copilot prompts, and Microsoft continues to weave on‑device AI into everyday workflows — all while shipping accessibility fixes, Emoji...
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OpenAI’s long-running infrastructure romance with Microsoft has quietly shifted from exclusivity to pragmatic flexibility, and the implications reach far beyond two corporate balance sheets — they reshape how cloud capacity, regulatory risk, and enterprise resilience will play out as AI scales...
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Microsoft has begun seeding KB5065789 to the Release Preview Channel, delivering targeted accessibility and productivity upgrades to Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 — notably an improved Narrator with a new Braille Viewer and more natural table/list reading, and an expanded Click to Do that...
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Microsoft’s latest Release Preview update for Windows 11 arrives with built-in AI actions for File Explorer, bringing image edits and Copilot-powered document summarization to the right‑click menu while also polishing Advanced Settings, sharing, emoji support, and several developer- and...
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 has pushed a focused Insider Preview to the Dev Channel that quietly bundles three small-but-important shifts: Emoji 16.0 support in the Windows emoji panel, targeted accessibility upgrades to Narrator, and Copilot-related refinements to Click to Do — all delivered with the compact...
Microsoft’s latest Insider preview (Build 26220.6682, KB5065782) sharpens Narrator’s reading and navigation behavior, brings a small curated set of Emoji 16.0 glyphs to the emoji picker, and rolls out incremental Click to Do (Copilot) refinements — changes that are small in headline but...
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A joint Aston University–University of Leeds partnership has secured a £3.4 million Research England Development Fund award to build the Artificial Intelligence Researcher Development Network Plus (AI.RDN+), a four‑year programme that will map how publicly available AI tools (from ChatGPT to...
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Microsoft’s latest Insider flights deliver a compact but meaningful set of refinements — from a new Copilot prompt box inside Click to Do to a curated Emoji 16 rollout and deep accessibility fixes for Narrator — packaged in Dev build 26220.6682 (and matching Beta build 26120.6682), signaling...
Microsoft has pushed a coordinated set of Windows 11 Insider Preview builds into the Dev, Beta, and Release Preview channels, bringing the near‑final 25H2 activation and a raft of AI, accessibility, and usability tweaks that IT teams and power users should validate now.
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