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...
Microsoft has quietly made the official x64 ISO for Windows 11, version 25H2 (Build 26200.5074) available to Release Preview Insiders, completing a key piece of release scaffolding that IT teams, OEMs and imaging specialists have been waiting for even as Microsoft continues to deploy the update...
Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday brings a substantial, feature‑heavy cumulative update to Windows 11—KB5065426—delivering a mix of visible UI polish, staged Copilot+ AI capabilities, privacy controls for on‑device generative features, and a set of bug and security fixes that administrators...
Microsoft quietly pulled back the promised ISO images for Windows 11, version 25H2 this week, updating its Release Preview announcement to say the ISOs are “delayed and coming soon” even as the update itself lands in the Release Preview channel as an enablement-package style release. Background...
Microsoft’s latest Insider whispers fold AI deeper into the Windows shell: right‑click a picture in File Explorer and you may now see an “AI actions” submenu offering Bing Visual Search, background blur, object erase, and background removal — a small set of micro‑workflows that signal a broader...
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Tiling window managers aren’t a Linux-only productivity secret anymore — Windows has a healthy, maturing ecosystem of tilers that can radically change how you work, and four projects stand out right now for stability, polish, or sheer ambition.
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Tiling window managers automatically...
Lenovo’s newest laptop concepts fold familiarity into a tiny act of mechanical theater — a 14‑inch ThinkBook that rotates from landscape to portrait and a motorized docking stand that follows your face — but the company’s bravado raises a practical question: are these clever engineering demos...
Flyoobe’s latest update tightens the shift from a simple Windows 11 requirements bypass into a polished, OOBE-centric installer and debloat toolkit — delivering smarter app removal, refreshed views for first-run setup, and performance tweaks while also raising fresh support and security...
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WINUX is, in practice, Ubuntu with a very convincing Windows 11 costume — and that disguise is the point: for many Windows 10 users facing the October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline, WINUX (also marketed as Linuxfx/Winux) promises the familiarity of Windows while running entirely on Linux...
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The Dell 14 Plus arrives not as a headline-stealer but as a steady, unimaginative workhorse: modestly priced, competent where it needs to be, and unapologetically conservative in every visible choice. For buyers whose priority is reliability over razzle-dazzle—IT fleets, students, knowledge...
Google’s Chrome is quietly treating copy-and-paste as a first‑class privacy risk: Canary builds now show Safety Check automatically removing clipboard permissions from sites you haven’t visited recently, surface a clear “Removed permissions for [x] sites” notice in the menu, and give users a...
Google Chrome’s terse banner — “Your browser is managed by your organization” — is both a useful audit cue and a common source of anxiety for home users who didn’t expect any outside control. The message is honest: Chrome has detected at least one non-default policy or managed preference. For...
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Microsoft’s long‑running experiment to make Android feel like an extension of the PC — rather than a separate device you constantly pick up — first promised native-like access to mobile apps on Windows 10, and over the years that promise evolved into a practical streaming model under the Your...
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Microsoft is rolling out a long-awaited change to Windows 11 that finally lets many users apply Windows Studio Effects to additional cameras — including USB webcams and rear-facing laptop cameras — on supported Copilot+ PCs, while also shipping a suite of related Copilot and accessibility...
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Microsoft shipped matched Insider updates this week — Build 26220.5790 to the Dev Channel (25H2 track) and Build 26120.5790 to the Beta Channel — and both bring a focused set of Copilot+ enhancements, camera and File Explorer polish, plus stability fixes and a handful of persistent known issues...
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Microsoft’s internal pricing playbook for Copilot appears to be getting a major rewrite that will materially lower the sticker price for many enterprise customers while shifting the company’s long-term monetization toward consumption-based agent billing and a centralized “agent management”...
Microsoft PowerToys is no longer a niche tweak for obsessive tinkerers — it’s a practical, polished productivity suite that many Windows users now install the moment they set up a new PC. A recent roundup that highlights “8 PowerToys you’ll use every day” captures why: the suite bundles small...
Microsoft’s push to fold generative AI into everyday file management just moved a major step closer to most Windows users: Microsoft 365’s Copilot is now integrated with OneDrive inside Windows, letting subscribers invoke Copilot actions from File Explorer and the OneDrive Activity Center on the...
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