Firefox’s latest release delivers the kind of practical Windows-focused refinements power users have been asking for — and a high-profile AI tie‑in that will keep privacy wonks and enterprise admins debating for weeks.
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Mozilla’s rapid-release cadence means the browser you...
Microsoft has quietly added a one‑click internet speed‑test launcher to Windows 11 Insider preview builds — a small, highly discoverable convenience that opens Bing’s web‑based speed‑test widget from the Taskbar’s network menu rather than running a native diagnostic inside the OS...
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Microsoft has tucked a one‑click internet speed check into the Windows 11 taskbar — but for now it’s a launcher that opens Bing’s web speed‑test widget rather than a native, in‑OS measurement tool. (windowscentral.com)
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Windows 11’s network menu just got a new convenience: a...
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Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds quietly add a one‑click internet speed‑test shortcut to the taskbar network flyout — but the shortcut simply opens Bing’s web‑based speed test rather than running a native, offline measurement — and the same builds also include a subtle but...
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Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on many Windows devices this fall, but the rollout is neither universal nor unstoppable — administrators and privacy-conscious users have documented methods to block installation and disable the feature, and Microsoft...
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Microsoft’s lifecycle clock is now glaringly visible for many organizations: support for several Windows releases will stop within months, and the window for action is short enough that CIOs, IT managers, and school IT directors must move from planning to execution now. A recent lifecycle...
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider Preview update, rolled out as KB5065782 to Dev and Beta channel testers on September 12, 2025, repurposes the SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) flow to display a full‑screen Microsoft 365 “needs attention” renewal prompt that occupies the display...
Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27943 to the Canary Channel — a compact, maintenance‑focused flight that addresses several user‑facing annoyances while flagging two significant deployment blockers Insiders and developers must weigh before installing. (blogs.windows.com)...
Microsoft’s Windows 11 “25H2” arrives as an unusually quiet sequel: more maintenance than milestone, with a few welcome conveniences — like a native sudo command and archive creation in File Explorer — offset by a lack of headline-grabbing features and some missed opportunities that power users...
Microsoft’s latest Insider preview (Build 26220.6682, KB5065782) sharpens Narrator’s reading and navigation behavior, brings a small curated set of Emoji 16.0 glyphs to the emoji picker, and rolls out incremental Click to Do (Copilot) refinements — changes that are small in headline but...
Microsoft Edge’s latest beta builds are shipping a preview of AI-powered live audio translation for videos on Windows 11 — a feature that can generate translated subtitles or even dub spoken audio in real time — but it comes with a notable hardware bar: Microsoft says your device must have at...
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Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a significant step toward turning text prompts into fully produced audio, introducing native speech generation powered by Microsoft AI’s new MAI-Voice-1 model and exposed today to users through Copilot Labs’ audio modes. The capability converts scripts into...
Neo4j’s new Infinigraph architecture — anchored by a technique the company calls property sharding — promises to finally address Neo4j’s long‑running scalability complaints by decoupling a graph’s topology from its property payloads, enabling horizontal scale beyond 100 TB while claiming ACID...
Microsoft’s latest push makes the long-promised “passwordless” future real for Windows 11 users by turning passkeys and Windows Hello into the default, secure way to sign into apps, websites, and corporate devices — removing passwords from the sign-in flow while preserving recoverability and...
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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Microsoft’s announcement at Ignite that an enterprise-oriented variant of Windows 10 S will be used as a lower‑cost, locked‑down deployment option for large organizations marks a pragmatic pivot in how the company is packaging security, management and price for frontline and lightweight worker...
Microsoft has pushed another Canary‑channel preview for Windows 11 — build 27943 — that stitches up a cluster of user‑visible annoyances while leaving two serious deployment blockers on the books. The flight addresses a persistent Settings > System > Storage > Temporary files scanning hang...
Microsoft has quietly published official ISO images for Windows 11, version 25H2 to the Windows Insider Preview downloads area, completing a key piece of release scaffolding for IT teams, OEMs, and enthusiasts even as most devices receive the feature update as a lightweight enablement package...
Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10—the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app preinstalled on many Windows 10 machines—will be retired on October 14, 2025, and will switch to a read-only state after that date, meaning you will still be able to view content but will not be able to...
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Ubuntu’s next interim release, Questing Quokka (25.10), has entered its User Interface Freeze as Canonical rides a wave of late-cycle engineering changes: Rust-based system utilities moving into the default image, an aggressively modern kernel target that could ship as a release candidate at...