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Microsoft’s Snipping Tool for Windows 11 is getting a practical — if incremental — upgrade: a new window mode for screen recording that lets you pick a single application window as the recording region instead of drawing a freeform rectangle around the desktop. The change is shipping to Windows...

Microsoft’s latest round of Start menu experiments surfaces a familiar irritation: Microsoft is testing a Copilot recommendation in the Start menu’s Recommended area that functions — for all practical purposes — as another nudge to use Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot from inside Windows 11...

Windows 11’s long-fractured dark mode has taken a tangible step toward cohesion: recent Insider Beta and Dev builds quietly include dark-themed File Explorer dialog boxes, and community testers can already surface them with third‑party tooling. This is the most visible sign yet that Microsoft is...

Microsoft has quietly moved one of the most game‑changing ideas in AI — a conversational, generative assistant — from a sidebar into the heart of a spreadsheet, by introducing a native =COPILOT() formula that runs Copilot prompts directly inside Excel cells and returns live, spillable outputs...

Microsoft’s quiet theming work in recent Insider previews finally moves one of Windows’ most visible UX complaints from “annoying” to “fix-in-progress,” as file‑operation dialogs — the copy/move progress windows, delete confirmations, access‑denied prompts and similar surfaces — are now...

Microsoft has quietly begun to fix one of Windows 11’s most persistent frictions: the sudden, blinding white dialogs that have long broken the illusion of a system-wide Dark Mode. Recent Insider preview builds include dark-themed file-operation dialogs — copy/move progress windows, delete...

Microsoft has quietly started theming Windows 11’s long-neglected legacy file-operation dialogs to respect Dark Mode, turning the previously blinding white copy/move/progress and error pop-ups into a darker, less jarring experience for users running the system theme set to Dark. Background For...

Windows 11’s dark mode is supposed to be easy on the eyes — yet for years many users have been greeted with a jarring white flash every time File Explorer opens a new window or tab, turning a momentary UX glitch into a recurring irritation and, for a minority, a genuine health hazard. That flash...

Windows 11’s dark mode just got noticeably less embarrassing — Microsoft has started rolling dark themes into file-operation dialogs in recent preview builds, and that fix finally addresses one of the most frequently-complained-about “flashbang” moments users hit when copying, moving, or...

Microsoft is quietly aligning Notepad’s right‑click experience with Windows 11’s modern context‑menu language, rolling a refreshed menu into the Windows Insider channels that places the most common editing actions up front while preserving Notepad’s growing set of AI and formatting features...

Microsoft’s quiet August update for Xbox is a textbook example of product teams prioritizing everyday usability over headline-grabbing features: the system refresh (build 10.0.26100.5362) quietly ships a new Play Anywhere filtering option and a Play History surface that makes cross-platform...

Microsoft has quietly rolled out a refreshed right‑click experience for Notepad in Windows 11, aligning the long‑running text editor with the redesigned, streamlined context menus Microsoft introduced across the OS — a change now appearing in Notepad builds shipping to Windows Insiders and...

Microsoft’s mobile Outlook is set for another interface tweak — but the exact scope and timing reported in one headline require scrutiny. A recent item circulating in the tech press claims Microsoft will relocate the Send button from the bottom compose toolbar to the top header of the Compose...

After more than twenty years of evolution, OneNote finally ships a simple — but genuinely consequential — productivity fix: a built‑in option to paste without formatting, accessible via the standard Ctrl+Shift+V (Windows) and Cmd+Shift+V (Mac) shortcuts, plus the familiar right‑click “Keep text...

Microsoft has announced a definitive end to an era: Windows PowerShell 2.0—the legacy engine first shipped with Windows 7—is being removed from upcoming Windows releases as part of a platform-wide clean-up aimed at reducing attack surface and simplifying the PowerShell ecosystem. This removal is...

The AI-powered revolution in PC gaming now has a new flagship: Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot. Quietly unveiled to Windows 11 beta testers, this innovative feature promises to become the ultimate digital sidekick for gamers, offering context-aware assistance inside any supported title. By seamlessly...

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Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25281 to the Dev Channel. TL;DR Starting with this build, we are trying out improvements to Windows Spotlight and introducing a visual update to the graphics settings page. And of course, a handful of fixes too...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1028 and Build 22623.1028 (KB5021866) to the Beta Channel. Build 22623.1028= New features rolling out. Build 22621.1028 = New features off by default. December 2022 Bug Bash: Starting tomorrow December 7th...

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