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    Gaming Copilot Beta: AI Assistant in Windows Game Bar for Play & Tips

    Microsoft has begun rolling out Gaming Copilot (Beta) to Windows PCs via the Xbox Game Bar, an in‑overlay AI assistant that promises real‑time, voice‑first help, screenshot‑aware guidance, achievement tracking, and personalized game recommendations — with mobile Xbox app support scheduled for...
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    Reed Smart: AI Detective — Minecraft Education’s AI Literacy Lesson

    Minecraft’s education wing quietly rolled out a clever new way to teach children and young people how to spot AI-driven disinformation: Reed Smart: AI Detective, a noir‑themed, interactive lesson world that uses mystery gameplay to train information literacy, lateral reading, and deepfake...
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    Google Labs Windows App: Floating Spotlight Search with Lens & AI

    Google’s experimental Windows app aims to remove the friction of switching windows to look something up — a floating, Spotlight‑like search bar you summon with Alt + Space that can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web, and that folds in Google Lens and the company’s AI...
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    Google Windows AI Spotlight-style Search: Local Files, Drive & Web in One

    Google has quietly begun testing a new desktop search experience for Windows that looks and feels like macOS Spotlight but with Google’s distinctive multimodal and generative-AI capabilities layered on top, bringing web search, Google Drive, local files, installed apps, and Google Lens into a...
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    Raycast Windows Beta: Emoji Picker & Clipboard History Upgrade for Power Users

    Raycast’s Windows beta already improves two of the most frequently used — and often frustrating — pieces of Windows input: the emoji picker and the clipboard history, delivering smoother search, persistent storage, and a more keyboard-centric workflow that will matter to power users and...
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    Windows 11 to macOS: Pragmatic Migration Fueled by Raycast and Smooth Workflows

    The author’s migration away from Windows 11 to macOS is a conversion driven less by fanaticism for Apple and more by pragmatism: fewer interruptions, a richer app ecosystem that matches professional workflows, and a single standout productivity tool — Raycast — that fills gaps Windows users have...
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    Xbox Play Anywhere: Can Cross-Device Gaming Be Truly Unified?

    Microsoft’s push to make Xbox the gaming platform that follows players across consoles, PCs, and handhelds is now measurable—and exposed by a practical problem: some of the biggest publishers still aren’t playing ball with Xbox Play Anywhere, and that gap risks turning Microsoft’s cross-device...
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    Windows Mobile Enters Maintenance Mode: Security, Enterprise, and Cross-platform Strategy

    Microsoft's public posture toward Windows Mobile has quietly shifted from product-led ambition to maintenance-mode realism: the company will keep the platform alive for security patches, enterprise deployments and compatibility with Windows 10's broader ecosystem, but it will no longer...
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    From Project NEON to Fluent Design: Windows 10 UI Shift & Surface Phone Rumors

    Microsoft’s design reset for Windows 10 — long-rumored as Project NEON — was always pitched as more than a fresh coat of paint: it was meant to be the visual glue that would finally make the Universal Windows Platform feel truly uniform across PCs, tablets and phones. That plan surfaced publicly...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: Migration Playbook and ESU Guide

    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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    Steam gains accessibility refresh: UI scale, high contrast, reduced motion, and customization tab

    Valve has quietly but meaningfully reshaped the Steam client with a sweeping UI and accessibility refresh that brings long-requested controls — UI scaling, high-contrast mode, reduced motion, and a dedicated customization tab for game artwork — to the desktop and SteamOS users, and the result is...
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    XL Converter: Free Open-Source Image Optimizer for AVIF, JPEG XL, and JPEG Workflows

    XL Converter arrives as a quietly powerful, free and open-source image utility that brings modern compression formats and advanced JPEG tech to Windows and Linux users—making it a smart tool for anyone who needs to shrink, transcode, or batch-process large photo libraries without sacrificing...
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    Ubuntu 25.10 Outperforms Windows 11 25H2 in Ryzen 9 9950X Multi-Threaded Tests

    A fresh round of cross‑platform testing shows Ubuntu 25.10 pulling ahead of Windows 11 (version 25H2, preview) in heavily multi‑threaded workloads on AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X, underscoring persistent differences in how Linux and Windows extract performance from modern Zen‑5 silicon. Background The...
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    Ubuntu 25.10 Leads in Multi-Threaded Ryzen 9 9950X Benchmarks vs Windows 11 25H2

    Microsoft’s latest preview releases reveal a clear — and continuing — pattern: on identical high-end hardware, Ubuntu 25.10 is holding or extending Linux’s multi-threaded lead while Windows 11 25H2 remains highly competitive in single-threaded and platform-specific workloads, particularly where...
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    Windows Terminal: Boost Productivity with Tabs, Panes, and WSL

    When I first started using the command line on Windows, the Command Prompt felt like a utility drawer: useful for a handful of quick tasks but cramped, inflexible, and increasingly outclassed by modern tooling — which is precisely why switching to Windows Terminal has become a practical...
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    Microsoft Retires Internet Explorer, Paint 3D, Groove Music, and More: A Windows Migration Guide

    Microsoft has quietly closed another chapter of Windows history by retiring a clutch of familiar apps — Internet Explorer, Paint 3D, Movies & TV (storefront), Groove Music’s streaming service, and the legacy Mail app — each disappearance reflecting a larger strategy to consolidate services, cut...
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    Mobile AI Assistants Surge: Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT Lead Comscore Growth

    Mobile usage of AI assistants has taken a measurable lead over desktop in recent months, with Comscore reporting mobile reach for AI tools rising to 73.4 million users (a 5.3% increase) while PC usage fell roughly 11.1%, and the largest mobile growth rates concentrated in Microsoft Copilot...
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    Helldivers 2 on Steam Deck: Playable, Not Optimized Yet

    Helldivers 2 can be launched and played on a Steam Deck, but the reality is far messier than a simple “works” or “doesn’t work” label — performance is uneven, requires compromise, and Arrowhead’s leadership says formal handheld support isn’t a near-term priority while the studio focuses on...
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    Helldivers 2 Tops Xbox Store, Signals Cross‑Platform Live‑Service Era

    Sony’s Helldivers 2 has crashed Xbox’s best‑seller list and — for a brief, loud moment — is outselling Microsoft’s own heavyweights on the Xbox storefront, an unusual reversal that speaks to how cross‑platform releases and live‑service economics are reshaping console competition today. The...
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    Windows 11 brings native clipboard sync to Android via Link to Windows

    Microsoft quietly added a native option in Windows 11 to push your PC clipboard to Android — and in early hands‑on testing it appears to land inside any Android keyboard that reads the system clipboard, including Gboard. Overview Windows 11’s clipboard has long been more than a lone Ctrl+C...
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