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Microsoft used its April 29, 2026, fiscal third-quarter earnings call to say Windows now exceeds 1.6 billion monthly active devices and Bing has reached 1 billion monthly active users for the first time. The numbers matter less as a victory lap than as a map of Microsoft’s next consumer...

Microsoft’s decision to give Edge a Copilot-style redesign says less about rounded corners and pastel colors than it does about the company’s current product strategy. The browser that once differentiated itself by quietly becoming better, faster, and more compatible is now being pulled into a...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 April update has sparked a fresh round of criticism because, on some systems, it apparently launches Microsoft Edge immediately after the first reboot. Instead of a quiet confirmation that the patch installed successfully, users are reportedly dropped into a...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update behavior is stirring an old and familiar argument: when does product education cross the line into product promotion? On some PCs, the mandatory April Patch Tuesday update is not just finishing silently in the background; after the first restart, it is...

Google’s April 15, 2026 Chrome stable update quietly closed a High-severity memory-corruption flaw in PDFium, tracked as CVE-2026-6305, and the fix now matters well beyond browser hobbyists. The bug affects Chrome versions prior to 147.0.7727.101 and allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary...

Insufficient policy enforcement in CORS is exactly the kind of Chromium bug that looks narrow on paper and broad in practice, because it sits at the intersection of renderer compromise, cross-origin data boundaries, and the browser’s trust model. Google has assigned CVE-2026-6313 to that issue...

Microsoft is quietly turning Edge into a more conversational writing surface, and the implications go well beyond a small Canary-only experiment. A new microphone button reportedly appearing beside the Copilot pen icon in Edge Canary suggests Microsoft is testing voice input for the Help me...

How to disable Copilot in Microsoft Edge has become a more complicated question than it first appears. What once looked like a single browser toggle now spans toolbar buttons, the Edge sidebar, browsing-context permissions, and newer AI features such as Copilot Journeys and Copilot Actions. The...

Microsoft Edge is in the middle of another identity shift, and this one is more than a cosmetic tweak. The browser’s interface is starting to borrow heavily from Copilot, with softer rounded corners, more pill-like controls, and toggle switches that feel closer to iOS than traditional Windows...

Microsoft Edge’s latest Stable Channel update is a good example of how the browser has evolved into something much broader than a simple window to the web. Version 147.0.3912.60 lands on Microsoft’s four-week release cycle, and while the headline is “just another browser patch,” the payload is...

Mozilla’s latest criticism of Microsoft is about more than a browser rivalry. It is about whether Windows is still a neutral platform or whether it has become a distribution engine for Microsoft’s own Edge browser and Copilot AI services. The complaint lands at a moment when Microsoft is pushing...

Chromium’s CVE-2026-5900 is a reminder that browser security issues do not need to be dramatic to matter operationally. Google says the flaw is a policy bypass in Downloads that affected Chrome versions prior to 147.0.7727.55, where a remote attacker could use a crafted HTML page to bypass...

Google has published a Chromium fix for CVE-2026-5909, an integer overflow in Media that affects Chrome versions prior to 147.0.7727.55 and can be triggered by a crafted video file. The issue is listed as a remote attack scenario with potential heap corruption, and Microsoft’s Security Update...

Chromium’s newly disclosed CVE-2026-5918 is a reminder that browser security flaws do not need to be dramatic to matter. Google says the bug affects Chrome versions prior to 147.0.7727.55 and could let a remote attacker who had already compromised the renderer process leak cross-origin data...

This is a reminder that browser security bugs do not need to be high severity to be operationally important. CVE-2026-5897 affects the Downloads UI in Google Chrome versions before 147.0.7727.55, and Google says a remote attacker could use a crafted HTML page plus specific user gestures to...

Google has now published CVE-2026-5899, a Chromium flaw in History Navigation that can let a remote attacker inject arbitrary scripts or HTML if they can lure a user into performing specific UI gestures on a crafted page. The issue is described by Google as “insufficient policy enforcement” and...

Microsoft is once again testing the limits of how far it can push Edge on Windows 11 users before the backlash becomes the story. A new preview behavior in the browser can make Edge launch automatically at sign-in, and the reaction has been predictably fierce, including from people who already...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Copilot app is prompting a familiar question in the Windows community: how much convenience is too expensive when it comes to system resources? Reports that the refreshed Copilot client now leans on an Edge-based architecture, rather than a lean native shell, have...

Microsoft’s new standalone Copilot app for Windows 11 is less of a clean break from the browser than many users probably expected, and the backlash says as much about trust as it does about code. Early poking around suggests the app leans heavily on Edge machinery under the hood, while...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot app for Windows 11 looks, on the surface, like a modernization story. In practice, though, it exposes a familiar tension in Redmond’s strategy: the company wants to present Copilot as a first-class Windows experience while still leaning heavily on web technology, Edge...