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Rumors of a full‑numbered Windows successor—commonly packaged as “Windows 12” and tied to internal names like Hudson Valley Next or CorePC—have re‑emerged in 2026, but the evidence collected so far paints a picture of evolution rather than an imminent, dramatic OS reset: Microsoft is clearly...

A week of frenetic headlines and social posts claimed Microsoft was readying a shocking pivot: an AI-first Windows 12 arriving in 2026, locked to machines with on‑device NPUs and sold via a subscription model that would change how consumers pay for their OS. The story was wrong in nearly every...

Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.9 OS Version: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, 64 bit, Build 26100, Installed 20250218112326.000000-300 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 185H, Intel64 Family 6 Model 170 Stepping 4, CPU Count: 22 Total Physical RAM: 16 GB Graphics Card: Intel(R)...

VLC’s long-awaited native Arm64 build for Windows has finally arrived, letting the ubiquitous media player run directly on Snapdragon-powered laptops and tablets without falling back to x86 emulation — and that change matters for performance, battery life, and day‑to‑day usability for Windows on...

Microsoft has quietly reworked BitLocker so that, on qualifying Windows 11 PCs, full‑disk encryption no longer has to be a heavy CPU chore — bulk AES/XTS operations can be routed into a dedicated crypto engine inside the SoC and the volume encryption key can be generated, wrapped and used...

Local AI browsers now let your phone run a full assistant without sending private queries to cloud servers — but setting one up takes planning, correct hardware, and an understanding of trade‑offs between privacy, performance, and convenience. In this piece we walk through the realistic options...

Microsoft’s BitLocker is getting a structural reboot: Windows will be able to offload bulk disk encryption to on‑chip crypto engines and keep the encryption keys sealed inside silicon, delivering near‑native NVMe performance on supported devices while reducing CPU overhead — but the change also...

Microsoft’s BitLocker is getting a tangible speed and security upgrade: Windows 11 now supports hardware‑accelerated BitLocker, moving bulk disk encryption into dedicated silicon on supported devices and adding hardware‑wrapped keys so the operating system never sees plaintext encryption keys in...

Microsoft has quietly moved one of Windows’ oldest and most consequential security primitives — full‑disk BitLocker encryption — out of the CPU and into silicon, promising substantial performance and battery gains on supported Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 platforms while changing how...

Microsoft has begun shipping a hardware‑accelerated mode for BitLocker in recent Windows 11 and Windows Server releases, letting supported SoCs and CPUs perform bulk disk encryption in silicon rather than relying entirely on the host CPU — a change Microsoft says will dramatically cut CPU usage...

Microsoft has quietly distributed KB5072094 — a component update that advances the Intel OpenVINO™ Execution Provider to version 1.8.26.0 for Windows 11 systems, a change that tightens the software bridge between ONNX models and Intel CPUs, GPUs and on‑die NPUs while shifting more responsibility...

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...

When Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s president of Windows and Devices, wrote that “Windows is evolving into an agentic OS” ahead of Microsoft Ignite, the short post intended as a preview of new platform work instead ignited an unusually fierce public backlash — a clear signal that users are tiring...

The era when AI assistants lived in the cloud and answered our questions from distant data centers is rapidly giving way to an architecture that puts meaningful intelligence on the device itself — smaller models, specialized chips, and new privacy trade-offs are turning assistants from web tools...

AV1 is no longer an experimental codec you have to wrestle with — it’s a mainstream, royalty‑free video format that delivers better compression than older codecs, and Windows users have multiple easy options to play AV1 files today. This feature walks through four practical methods to play AV1...

The pace of change in consumer and enterprise technology has never been higher: this week the industry doubled down on AI-first computing with major model and platform updates, GPU makers pushed a new generation of AI-native graphics into both desktops and the cloud, chip vendors rolled out...

With Microsoft continuing to push AI into the heart of Windows while simultaneously shipping iterative Windows 11 updates, the question most users and IT managers are asking is simple but pressing: will Windows 12 arrive in late 2025 or early 2026 — and if so, what will it actually change? The...

If GoMovies pages won’t load, videos won’t play, or links keep redirecting to ads, these 15 practical fixes walk through the most common causes — from browser cache and extensions to DNS, system time, and network-level blocks — and show exactly how to resolve each one quickly and safely...

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Microsoft has quietly pushed an Image Transform update to Copilot+ Windows 11 machines: KB5066124 advances the on‑device Image Transform AI component to version 1.2508.906.0, bringing incremental improvements to the inpainting, erase-and-fill, and related image-editing primitives used by Photos...