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The Copilot AI button disappeared from many Office apps because Microsoft changed Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat availability on April 15, 2026, removing the in-app Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote entry point for many users without a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot license. That is the simple...

Google released Android 17 on June 16, 2026, making the stable build available first for supported Pixel devices while partner-device makers including Samsung, OnePlus, OPPO, Xiaomi, Honor, vivo, and others remain on their own rollout schedules. The headline feature is not a new coat of paint...

Microsoft said on June 19, 2026, that Windows 11 version 26H2 will ship in the second half of 2026 as a small enablement package for recent Windows 11 PCs, continuing the platform-and-servicing model established across versions 24H2 and 25H2. That sounds procedural, almost boring, which is...

Microsoft announced on June 19, 2026 that Windows 11 version 26H2 is now available to Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel, alongside new Beta and Experimental builds, with the release delivered as an enablement package for systems sharing the 24H2/25H2 servicing lineage. That is the...

Microsoft published KB5105752 on June 18, 2026, warning that JScript globals, polyfills, and execution context loaded across multiple scripts may not persist on Windows 11 24H2, Windows 11 25H2, and Windows Server 2025 unless administrators enable a registry-controlled compatibility feature. The...

Apple released second developer betas of iOS 26.6, iPadOS 26.6, macOS Tahoe 26.6, watchOS 26.6, tvOS 26.6, and visionOS 26.6 on June 15, 2026, three weeks after the first 26.6 test builds and one week after Apple opened the iOS 27 developer cycle. The timing matters more than the feature list...

Microsoft is testing a unified Windows 11 update experience in Insider Experimental Preview Build 26300.8687 that coordinates driver, .NET, and firmware updates with the monthly quality update so PCs should need fewer separate restarts each month. It is a small sentence in a release note with an...

Microsoft says it spent the first half of 2026 cutting Microsoft Teams chat-switching latency by 20 percent across devices, while reducing app hangs on Apple hardware by 35 percent and making people search on iOS 25 percent faster. That is not the sort of announcement that normally gets a...

Microsoft introduced Admin Insights for Windows 365 in public preview for commercial customers in May 2026, adding service-generated insight cards inside the Microsoft Intune admin center to help administrators spot Cloud PC issues, trends, and optimization opportunities without building custom...

Paul Thurrott has renamed and reworked his long-running Windows 11 Field Guide as the Windows 11 Field Guide 2026 edition, a June 2026 update that reframes the book around today’s supported Windows 11 releases: 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1. The change is more than a cover-page refresh. It is a small but...

Microsoft Copilot users reported widespread access problems on Monday, June 1, 2026, with complaints describing slow replies, failed sign-ins, and unavailable Copilot experiences across web, mobile, and Microsoft 365-integrated versions during the U.S. workday. The important part is not merely...

Microsoft has resumed the automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible commercial Windows PCs in June 2026, targeting devices with Microsoft 365 desktop apps already installed while excluding tenants in the European Economic Area. The move revives a deployment plan...

Microsoft changed Windows 11 version 22H2 so that, after the October 2022 update, Command Prompt, Windows PowerShell, and other console applications open inside Windows Terminal by default rather than the older Windows Console Host, while still allowing users and administrators to switch back...

Amazon’s new Kindle app for Windows appeared in the Microsoft Store in early June 2026, ahead of the June 30 shutdown of the older Kindle for PC application, giving Windows users a replacement path for reading Kindle books, comics, manga, personal documents, and Audible-linked content on PCs...

Microsoft said on June 1, 2026, that it was investigating Microsoft 365 Copilot app load and timeout errors after users began reporting access problems that morning, with Downdetector complaints rising around 9 a.m. Eastern and peaking shortly before noon. The incident was not the...

Microsoft Copilot saw a wave of user-reported problems on Friday, May 29, 2026, with Downdetector showing more than 2,600 reports by 8:58 a.m. Pacific time and most complaints pointing to the mobile app. The number is not proof of a global outage, and Microsoft had not publicly supplied the kind...

On April 27 and 28, 2026, Microsoft and Accenture said Microsoft 365 Copilot was being rolled out to roughly 743,000 Accenture workers worldwide, making it Microsoft’s largest publicly announced enterprise Copilot deployment to date. The number is the headline, but it is not the story by itself...

Microsoft Copilot Tasks is a preview-era agentic AI feature for Copilot that lets Microsoft’s assistant plan, browse, schedule, and carry out user-directed tasks across web and app contexts, with availability still rolling out through signed-in Copilot experiences and related Windows Insider...

Microsoft released KB5089570 on May 26, 2026, as a preview cumulative update for Windows 11 version 26H1, moving supported systems to OS Build 28000.2179 and delivering non-security fixes, staged feature rollouts, servicing-stack changes, and Copilot+ PC AI component updates. The surface story...

Microsoft added an updated Secure Boot status report to Windows Autopatch on May 19, 2026, giving IT administrators device-level visibility into whether managed Windows PCs are ready for the Secure Boot certificate transition now bearing down on enterprise fleets. The timing is not accidental...