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Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...

Microsoft Edge's experimental Scareware Blocker is graduating from a single-user popup interrupter to a broader, system-strengthening feature that can block scam sites and — in the Canary channel — optionally share detected scam links and classifications with Microsoft’s Defender SmartScreen...

Chromium security teams patched a critical use‑after‑free vulnerability in the ANGLE graphics translation layer tracked as CVE‑2025‑9478, and every Windows and enterprise administrator who manages Chromium‑based browsers — including Microsoft Edge — should verify and deploy the fixes immediately...

I avoided Copilot for years, but after forcing myself to try specific features I quietly use them every day — not because the assistant is flawless, but because a handful of targeted tools actually save time and reduce friction in common tasks. The move from novelty “chatbot” to practical...

India’s national cybersecurity agency has issued a high‑severity warning about a broad set of vulnerabilities across Microsoft products — a multi‑component risk that demands immediate patching and tighter operational controls from both home users and enterprise IT teams. Background / Overview...

Microsoft’s latest survey of Microsoft Edge users reads like a product roadmap with question marks — a quiet probe that, if the signals are read correctly, points to a future where Copilot in Edge moves from summarizer to doer. The questionnaire currently circulating among Edge users asks not...

Google’s Chrome team is quietly testing a one-click option in Chrome’s Windows settings that not only sets Chrome as the default browser but will also pin it to the Windows 11 taskbar — a small UI change with outsized product and regulatory implications for how browsers compete on Windows. The...

Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are no longer just browsers—they’re sprawling platforms where AI, privacy controls, and even gaming features are being used as battlegrounds to win users’ attention and loyalty. Background / Overview The modern browser fight is about more than page-load times and...

Microsoft has begun testing a new “My apps” tab inside the Xbox app for Windows 11 that lets Xbox Insiders install, launch and — in some cases — download third‑party apps and rival storefronts from a single, controller‑friendly launcher aimed at making the Xbox app the central hub for PC gaming...

A high-severity memory-corruption flaw in Chromium’s V8 JavaScript engine, tracked as CVE-2025-9132, has been patched in the Chrome 139 stable update; the vulnerability is an out‑of‑bounds write that can lead to heap corruption and, in the worst case, remote code execution when a user visits a...

A recent hands‑on experiment that tried to replace Microsoft Copilot’s web‑page summarization with a fully local stack — Ollama running local models and the Page Assist browser sidebar — ended with a clear, practical verdict: Copilot still delivers the faster, more polished experience for...

Microsoft Edge’s Canary channel has begun surfacing experimental controls that explicitly treat passkeys as first‑class syncable credentials in the browser, adding new flags labeled Passkey roaming and Passkey roaming management and settings, and exposing a combined “Passwords and passkeys” sync...

ChatGPT is not a Microsoft product — it was created and is operated by OpenAI — but the relationship between the two companies is deep, strategic, and increasingly intertwined, which explains why ChatGPT often feels like a Microsoft feature inside Windows, Edge, Bing, and Microsoft 365. tl agent...

My access to MSNBC is good and does work. I have 3 browsers, FF, Edge, & Chrome and all 3 fail to receive the stream, the circle keeps circling. I can get the stream on my iphone using my WIFI, so I'm ruling out my WIFI provider.

Microsoft’s deadline is now fixed: Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, and with it comes a complex, staggered set of follow‑ups that will shape PC security, upgrade plans, and procurement decisions for consumers and enterprises alike. The headline is simple — the OS will...

A high-severity heap buffer overflow in the AV1 codec library libaom — tracked as CVE-2025-8879 — has been fixed in the latest Chromium builds; Google pushed the patch in Chrome stable channel updates to versions 139.0.7258.127/.128 (Windows and macOS) and 139.0.7258.127 (Linux), and browser...

A race condition in V8, tracked as CVE‑2025‑8880, was disclosed by the Chromium team and fixed upstream in Chrome Stable — the flaw could allow a remote attacker to execute code inside the browser sandbox via a crafted webpage, and Chromium-based browsers (including Microsoft Edge) are advised...

Mozilla’s quiet move to add a native “Search Image with Google Lens” entry in Firefox’s context menu closes a long-standing usability gap with Chrome and Edge while reopening familiar privacy and platform questions for Windows users and IT administrators alike. The change—visible today in...

Microsoft’s Edge appears to be getting a radical rethink that puts Copilot — not tabs or bookmarks — at the center of the browsing experience, with early “Olympia” UI screenshots surfacing from Edge Canary and public reporting suggesting the redesign is being tested as a Copilot-first interface...

Microsoft's decision to keep Microsoft Edge and the WebView2 runtime receiving updates on Windows 10 through at least October 2028 changes the migration calculus for millions of users — but it is a tactical reprieve, not a permanent fix for an aging operating system. Background Microsoft long...