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  1. Dell: Windows 11 migration trails Windows 10, reshaping the PC upgrade cycle

    Dell's blunt assessment during its latest earnings call — that the Windows 11 transition is trailing the Windows 10 migration by roughly 10–12 percentage points — crystallizes a quiet but consequential reality for the PC market: the upgrade cycle that once reliably boosted OEM sales now looks...
  2. Windows 11 App Updates: Testing Unified OS Level Update Orchestration

    Microsoft has quietly started surfacing a new "App updates" page in Windows 11 Settings and is testing a mechanism that lets Microsoft Store–managed apps delegate update checks and installs to the Windows Update service — a change that signals Microsoft is moving toward a single, OS‑level update...
  3. Windows 11 Insider Preview: Preloading File Explorer for Faster Launch

    Microsoft has quietly begun preloading File Explorer in the background on Windows 11 as part of an Insider test — a pragmatic, reversible experiment designed to erase the familiar “cold‑start” pause and make opening folders feel instantaneous on a wider range of hardware. The change appears in...
  4. Windows 11 File Explorer Preloading: Faster opens, with trade-offs

    Microsoft’s quick fix for Windows 11’s notoriously sluggish File Explorer is simple: keep parts of it running in the background so folder windows open faster — and users aren’t happy about the trade-off. Background / Overview Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7271 (KB5070307) introduces an...
  5. Windows 12 Isn't Coming Soon: Focus on Windows 11 Copilot+ AI Hardware

    Windows 12 is not arriving this year — and Microsoft’s roadmap makes clear why the company is leaning into Windows 11, Copilot+ hardware, and iterative feature updates instead of rushing a numbered successor. Background / Overview Microsoft’s next major Windows chapter has been the subject of...
  6. Windows 11 Copilot Becomes Hands Free Screen Aware AI PC Assistant

    Microsoft has quietly — and decisively — moved Copilot out of its chat-box corner and into the center of the Windows 11 experience, turning the assistant into a hands‑free, screen‑aware productivity layer you can summon with the wake words “Hey, Copilot”, let view the exact window you’re working...
  7. Mustafa Suleyman Mindblown Moment Sparks Enterprise Debate on Windows Agentic OS

    Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt, social‑media rebuke — calling public scepticism about AI “mindblowing” and comparing today’s generative systems to the wonder of playing Snake on a Nokia — crystallised a widening trust gap between Microsoft’s executive confidence and the day‑to‑day concerns of...
  8. Real time CFD for manufacturing: Synopsys digital twin on Azure with Omniverse

    Synopsys’ new simulation-driven framework unveiled at Microsoft Ignite promises to turn slow, high‑fidelity CFD workflows into near‑real‑time decision tools for the factory floor — a multi‑vendor stack that combines Synopsys’ accelerated physics, GPU‑native Ansys Fluent, NVIDIA Omniverse/OpenUSD...
  9. Windows Control Panel Deprecation: Migration to Settings and What It Means

    Microsoft’s brief, noisy announcement that it was “deprecating” the Windows Control Panel — followed by a quiet rewording that replaced “deprecated” with “many settings are being migrated” — isn’t just a semantic wobble. It exposes a decade-long transition, a tangled compatibility backlog, and a...
  10. Windows 11 File Explorer Preloading for Instant Launch (Insider Preview)

    Microsoft is quietly testing a background preloading feature for File Explorer in Windows 11 that aims to eliminate the familiar "cold start" pause and make the file manager appear ready the instant a user clicks its icon. Background File Explorer has long been a cornerstone of the Windows...
  11. Excel AI Evolution: Copilot and Agent Mode Turn Spreadsheets Into Cognitive Workspaces

    A grainy clip of a young Satya Nadella walking an audience through Microsoft Excel has resurfaced and gone viral — and the CEO’s cheeky response, “Less hair. Same love for Excel!”, paired with a hoodie reading Make Sheet Happen Since 1985, felt less like nostalgia and more like a deliberate...
  12. KB5070312 Update for Windows 11 23H2 Fixes File Explorer and More

    Microsoft quietly pushed an optional Windows 11 update — surfaced as KB5070312 for version 23H2 — that addresses a persistent and widely reported File Explorer responsiveness bug along with a handful of smaller, but useful, quality fixes. Background / Overview Windows 11 follows a staged...
  13. VAST AI OS on Azure: Unifying Data, GPUs, and Agentic AI in the Cloud

    VAST Data’s decision to bring its VAST AI Operating System (AI OS) to Microsoft Azure marks a deliberate push to treat the cloud as more than just a compute utility — instead, a managed platform for agentic AI where data, fast retrieval, and autonomous agents operate together under unified...
  14. Windows Insider Program Redesign: AI Help Bot, Clear Enrollment, Enterprise Flows

    Microsoft quietly rolled out a redesigned Windows Insider Program website that refreshes the program’s public face with Microsoft’s latest visual language, clearer onboarding flows, and an embedded AI assistant — a welcome cosmetic and navigational upgrade that nevertheless raises important...
  15. Windows Insider Program Redesign Adds AI Assistant and Clearer Onboarding

    Microsoft quietly rolled out a redesigned Windows Insider Program website this month, replacing the program’s long-serving landing pages with a modern, colorful interface that highlights registration flows, channel guidance, business and server streams, and — unsurprisingly — an AI-powered...
  16. Windows 11 Agenda View Preview: Native Taskbar Calendar with Copilot Actions

    Microsoft is restoring a long-missed productivity touchpoint: the Windows 11 taskbar calendar will gain an Agenda view — a compact, interactive list of upcoming appointments and meetings inside Notification Center — with the feature landing in preview next month, according to Microsoft’s Ignite...
  17. Windows at 40: The AI Pivot, Copilot and the Future of the OS

    Forty years after the first boxed copies of Windows left the factory, the operating system that reshaped personal computing stands at a crossroads — celebrated for its ubiquity, tempered by new technical, legal and cultural pressures, and being actively reimagined around artificial intelligence...