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Microsoft's Copilot has quietly received one of the most consequential behind-the-scenes upgrades since its rollout: the free tier now runs on OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo, bringing a much larger context window, a fresher knowledge base, and a set of performance fixes that address earlier complaints...

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...

A quietly radical idea—don’t put another screen on your face; put intelligence in your ears—has surfaced from inside Microsoft’s design ranks and, in doing so, reopened a long-running debate about how AI should meet the world. The Copilot Veja concept, an unofficial design study by Microsoft...

Microsoft’s recent user survey — surfaced by reporting from Windows Latest — suggests the company is actively exploring ways to make Microsoft Edge’s Copilot mode behave more like Perplexity’s Comet: not just a summarizer but an agentic browser that can act across tabs and automate multi-step...

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...

Microsoft's latest Stable release of Edge, version 139.0.3405.111, quietly brings a small but useful productivity tweak — Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Summarization baked directly into the right-click context menu — alongside a roster of bug fixes and performance refinements that continue Edge’s...

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...

Making Google Chrome the default browser across your devices is one of the simplest changes that delivers the biggest practical payoff: links open the way you expect, bookmarks and passwords follow you, and your browsing sessions stay consistent across platforms. This guide walks through how to...

Microsoft’s Windows team has confirmed what industry insiders have been expecting for months: the future of the OS will be built around context-aware, multimodal AI that can see and understand what’s on your screen, respond to voice and pen input, and act on your intent — but those headline AI...

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.