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  1. Click To Do: Windows' Local-First AI Overlay with Phi Silica

    Microsoft’s Click To Do is the kind of small change that can quietly rearrange how you work: a system-level overlay that turns whatever is on your screen—text, images, even tables—into actionable items you can edit, summarize, or hand off to Copilot, all without leaving the context of your...
  2. Notepad adds offline AI on Copilot+ PCs: Summarize, Write, Rewrite

    Microsoft has started shipping a Notepad update for Windows 11 that brings true on‑device generative AI — including Summarize, Write, and Rewrite — to Copilot+ PCs, and those capabilities can run entirely offline without a Microsoft account or a paid subscription when executed locally on...
  3. Xbox Mode on Windows Handhelds: Console‑First UX Arrives with ROG Ally

    Microsoft’s handheld push has taken a new turn: the Xbox-style, full‑screen “Xbox Mode” that will ship as the default experience on the ROG Xbox Ally family is already appearing on other Windows 11 handhelds — in community builds and hacks — ahead of the Ally’s retail launch, forcing a rapid...
  4. Surface Laptop 7: AI Copilot+ on ARM with Great Battery Life

    Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 7 arrives as a tidy, well-engineered Copilot+ laptop that clearly hits the brief for battery life, build quality, and on-device AI acceleration — yet the real-world experience described by some owners and reviewers exposes a stubborn seam between polished hardware and...
  5. Windows 10 End of Life 2025 Sparks AI PC Shift with Copilot+ NPUs

    Microsoft’s decision to draw a line under Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 is doing more than closing a chapter — it is sharpening the upgrade calculus for millions of users and accelerating a hardware-led shift toward AI-enabled PCs, commonly sold as Copilot+ or “AI PC” devices. What began as an...
  6. Modern SMB Upgrade: Copilot+, vPro Core Ultra, and On-Device AI in Windows 11 Pro

    Built for speed and ready to scale, the push toward Windows 11 Pro devices—especially Copilot+ systems and Intel vPro® machines powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra—is no longer marketing fluff: it’s the practical backbone of a modern, hybrid SMB strategy that combines measurable performance gains, new...
  7. Windows 11 Preview: Copilot on Taskbar, Drag‑and‑Drop AI, and On‑Device NPUs

    Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 preview build sharpens Copilot’s presence in daily workflows with new taskbar animations, drag‑and‑drop content handling, and deeper on‑device AI integration — a set of changes that promise faster, more contextual assistance while accelerating Microsoft’s push to...
  8. Windows 11 Release Preview: Auto SR expands to Copilot+ hardware

    Microsoft’s latest Release Preview update for Windows 11 brings a concentrated set of AI-driven features to Insiders — and one of the most eye-catching is the expansion of Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR) to more titles, but with a strict hardware caveat: Auto SR remains gated to Copilot+...
  9. Surface Laptop 7: ARM Copilot+ Rival to MacBooks

    The Surface Laptop 7 isn’t just Microsoft’s best Copilot+ PC to date — it is a clear, pragmatic challenge to Apple’s dominance in the thin-and-light space, delivering blistering multi-core performance, class-leading battery life under specific tests, and a premium aluminum build that finally...
  10. Windows 11 September 2025 Update: On-Device Copilot AI Binaries and UI Enhancements

    Microsoft's September cumulative for Windows 11 has landed and, rather than being a quiet maintenance release, it mixes visible UI polish, a handful of useful quality fixes and a fresh batch of staged, hardware-gated AI features — with one very practical sting in the tail: the cumulative...
  11. Lenovo's AI PC Vision: Will Every PC Be AI-Powered in 4–5 Years?

    Lenovo’s IFA keynote and hands-on demos in Berlin crystallized a simple, audacious claim: within four to five years every personal computer will be an “AI PC” — a device with a built‑in Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and the on‑device intelligence to run many AI tasks locally. That declaration...
  12. Windows 11 AI Actions in File Explorer: Quick Image Edits with Bing Visual Search

    Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel experiment pushes intelligence deeper into the Windows shell: a new AI actions submenu in File Explorer lets you right‑click images to run Bing Visual Search, blur or remove backgrounds, and erase objects — all without opening a full editor. This context‑aware...
  13. Windows 11 Dev Channel 26220.5790: Fluid Dictation, Studio Effects, Copilot in Explorer

    Microsoft’s latest Dev‑Channel flight, Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.5790 (KB5065779), brings a focused set of Copilot+ features—most notably Fluid Dictation in Voice Access—along with wider Windows Studio Effects support for additional cameras, new Copilot‑driven File Explorer hover...
  14. Windows 11 Insider Build 26120.5790: Fluid dictation, Studio Effects expand, Explorer hover actions

    Windows 11’s latest Beta-channel preview, Build 26120.5790, brings two pragmatic AI upgrades—fluid dictation and expanded Windows Studio Effects for additional cameras on Copilot+ PCs—alongside a UI tweak in File Explorer’s Home panel that may please some users but annoy others with added visual...
  15. Windows 12: AI-First, Modular Core PC Fueled by Germanium & Hudson Valley

    Microsoft appears to be preparing a generational Windows refresh that places artificial intelligence at the center of the user experience, with multiple leak streams and community archives pointing to an AI-first platform (codenames such as Germanium and Hudson Valley) and a modular base...
  16. Windows Studio Effects Expands to External Cameras on Copilot+ PCs

    Microsoft is expanding its on-device AI camera toolkit: Windows Studio Effects can now be enabled on additional cameras — like external USB webcams or a laptop’s rear camera — on supported Copilot+ PCs, and the change has begun rolling out in recent Windows 11 Insider Preview builds. This update...
  17. Windows 11 Copilot+ AI: On-Device Voice, Camera & File Explorer Upgrades

    Microsoft’s latest round of Windows 11 updates doubles down on on-device AI, delivering new voice, camera, and Copilot integrations specifically for Copilot+ PCs while sharpening the split between NPU-equipped machines and the larger Windows installed base. Background / Overview Microsoft has...
  18. Windows Studio Effects Now Supports USB Webcams on Copilot+ PCs

    Microsoft’s latest Insider previews make a practical but consequential change: Windows Studio Effects — the OS‑level, NPU‑accelerated camera pipeline — can now be applied to additional cameras (for example, USB webcams and rear laptop sensors) on supported Copilot+ PCs, while the same builds...
  19. Fluid Dictation on Windows 11: On-Device AI for Natural Speech-to-Text

    Microsoft’s latest Insider Preview builds bring a tangible — and in many ways overdue — improvement to speech-to-text on Windows by introducing Fluid Dictation inside Voice Access, a smarter, faster, on-device dictation mode designed to make spoken text appear as natural, punctuated prose rather...
  20. Windows 12: AI-First, Modular, Security‑Focused OS Redefining PCs

    Microsoft’s next major Windows chapter is already shaping up as a defining moment for the PC era: rumors and early leaks point to a profoundly AI-centric, security-first, and modular operating system—commonly referred to as Windows 12—that could reshape how people interact with their computers...