Microsoft has quietly folded an AI coach into the Windows 11 Game Bar: Gaming Copilot (branded as Xbox Copilot in some builds) is rolling out to Xbox Insiders now, promising voice, screenshot and context-aware help without leaving the game — and the early beta exposes both a practical leap in...
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Microsoft’s decision to let organizations stream single Windows applications from the cloud — instead of entire Cloud PC sessions — marks a pragmatic pivot in how enterprises will adopt Windows 365 for day-to-day workforces and frontline roles. The new Windows 365 Cloud Apps feature, now in...
Microsoft has quietly begun inviting some Windows 11 users to a new “Microsoft AI Labs” sign‑up from inside MS Paint, a subtle but significant step in how Microsoft is testing and distributing experimental AI features across the OS — and the rollout is already exposing tough questions about...
Microsoft’s long‑running habit of quietly modernizing its smallest apps reached a clear milestone this week as Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad received coordinated feature updates in Windows Insider builds — features that push these familiar utilities from convenience tools toward real...
Microsoft’s Copilot produced a full Week 3 slate of NFL score predictions for USA TODAY — a tidy, repeatable experiment that reveals as much about modern large language models as it does about football forecasting.
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USA TODAY ran a simple, repeatable workflow: prompt...
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Microsoft has quietly begun shipping a coordinated set of updates to three of Windows 11’s oldest built‑in utilities — Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad — turning small, familiar tools into more capable, workflow‑friendly apps and proving once again that Microsoft is using inbox apps as a...
Speaker Mike Johnson’s announcement at the Congressional Hackathon that the U.S. House will begin a staged pilot giving thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot marks a dramatic reversal of last year’s ban and opens a high‑stakes test of how a legislative body adopts generative AI...
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Microsoft is quietly turning three of Windows 11’s oldest, most familiar utilities — Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad — into more capable, workflow-focused apps by adding an editable project format, in-capture markup, and on-device AI features for Copilot+ hardware, with the changes rolling out...
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Microsoft is bringing a major workflow improvement to the Snipping Tool: a new “Quick markup” mode that lets you annotate screenshots before they're captured, plus simultaneous updates to Paint and Notepad that push these long-neglected utilities toward more advanced, productivity-focused use...
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Virginia Briggs, chief executive of Australia’s MinterEllison, says she uses Microsoft 365 Copilot “for every task, every day,” and the firm’s experience — from boardroom demos to bespoke legal drafting tools — offers an early, high‑profile case study of what enterprise generative AI looks like...
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I opened Paint and a small banner asked me to join “Windows AI Labs” — an opt‑in program that, according to the on‑screen card and an attached programme agreement, will let selected users test experimental AI features inside Microsoft Paint before those features are broadly released.
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The U.S. House of Representatives is reversing course on a high‑profile digital ban and will begin a managed, one‑year pilot to give thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot — a move framed as institutional modernization but one that raises immediate questions about tenancy...
Microsoft’s mobile productivity strategy has taken another turn: the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iOS will stop being an all‑in‑one editing surface and will become a preview-first Copilot hub, pushing users to the standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps whenever they need to edit a document...
House leaders announced this week that the U.S. House of Representatives will begin a controlled rollout of Microsoft Copilot to congressional staffers, marking a sharp policy reversal from the chamber’s 2024 prohibition and launching a one‑year pilot that will place Copilot‑powered tools inside...
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Microsoft’s October deadline for Windows 10 support has arrived like a ringing bell for an industry that—by several measures—wasn’t ready: large numbers of consumer and corporate endpoints still run Windows 10, many organisations face compatibility and budget constraints, and the safety net...
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Microsoft is preparing to push the Microsoft 365 Copilot app onto a huge swath of Windows PCs this fall, automatically installing a centralized Copilot entry point on devices that already have Microsoft 365 desktop apps — a change that promises easier discovery of AI features but also raises...
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Starting this fall, the U.S. House of Representatives will begin a managed, year‑long pilot giving thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot, a dramatic policy reversal from the chamber’s 2024 ban and a consequential test case for how democracies adopt generative AI while trying to...
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Microsoft's latest Insider flight quietly turns three of Windows 11’s most familiar utilities—Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad—into more capable, workflow‑focused apps by adding editable project files, in‑capture markup, and local AI editing that can run on Copilot+ hardware without a...
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Microsoft is redesigning the mobile Copilot experience on iOS: beginning this fall the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will act primarily as an AI-powered viewer and conversational hub, offering in-context file previews, summaries and Q&A — while editing for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files will be...
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider builds are shipping a new, full-screen renewal prompt aimed at lapsed Microsoft 365 subscriptions — an eye-catching SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) screen that insiders and early reports describe as a full‑screen nag to renew rather than a...