HP’s latest quarterly results confirm a simple — and lucrative — reality: AI PCs and the Windows 11 refresh are doing heavy lifting for the Personal Systems business, and that shift is materially improving margins even as printing revenues soften.
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Windows 11’s AI-first push has turned into a study in contradictions: promising productivity shortcuts and local intelligence on one hand, and on the other hand delivering a fragmented, confusing, and sometimes privacy-ambiguous user experience that many feel undermines the core job of an...
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Asus and Microsoft have taken the wraps off the ROG Xbox Ally family — two Windows 11 handhelds that marry ASUS’ ROG hardware design with an Xbox‑layered, controller‑first Windows experience — and they arrive on store shelves on October 16, 2025, positioning themselves as direct rivals to...
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HP’s latest quarter reads like a watershed moment: revenue and unit trends that outpaced expectations, a sharpened focus on AI-capable PCs, aggressive supply‑chain moves to sidestep tariff risk, and a targeted buy of Humane’s AI assets that accelerates device‑level AI strategy—taken together...
Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...
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Microsoft has quietly begun testing a conversational, meaning‑aware file and image search inside the Copilot app on Windows 11, bringing natural‑language discovery and a redesigned Copilot home to Windows Insiders on Copilot+ PCs as part of a staged Microsoft Store preview.
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Microsoft has begun quietly testing a conversational, semantic file and image search inside the Copilot app on Windows 11, bringing natural‑language discovery and a redesigned Copilot home to Windows Insiders on Copilot+ PCs as part of a staged Microsoft Store rollout.
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The ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X arrive as a decisive pivot for handheld PC gaming: ASUS hardware meets Xbox branding and a newly consolized Windows 11 experience, with both devices slated to reach stores on October 16, 2025.
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The ROG Xbox Ally family is the product of...
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Microsoft has quietly begun testing a conversational, meaning‑aware file and image search inside the Copilot app on Windows 11, a change that lets you describe what you’re looking for instead of hunting for exact filenames — and it’s arriving first to Copilot+ PCs as a staged Windows Insider...
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Microsoft’s latest Insider update for Copilot on Windows shifts the app’s interface and search capabilities into a more integrated, AI-first direction — bringing semantic file search to capable machines and a redesigned Copilot home that folds recent apps, files, and conversations into a single...
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Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows is taking another decisive step from assistant to workplace hub by adding a semantic file search capability to the Copilot app and rebuilding its home surface into an action-focused dashboard — currently rolling out to Windows Insiders and gated to Copilot+ PCs...
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Microsoft and ASUS have set a firm retail date for their jointly developed handhelds — the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X — and they arrive not as simple third‑party devices but as the first mainstream proof that Microsoft intends to use Windows 11 as the foundation for a console‑like...
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Microsoft’s Copilot now speaks file-finding: the Copilot app can search your recent local files and images using natural language, and a staged Windows Insider rollout has begun that puts semantic file search and a redesigned Copilot home in front of testers and early adopters.
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Microsoft’s Xbox handheld arriving as a Windows-powered device is less an endgame than the first real, public proof that Microsoft intends to use Windows itself as the foundation of a next-generation, cross-device Xbox experience.
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Microsoft and ASUS announced the ROG Xbox...
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Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows has been reborn yet again, this time with a redesigned home dashboard and the addition of conversational, semantic file search — features rolling out to Windows Insiders now, with advanced on‑device behavior limited to Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs.
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Microsoft’s Copilot app for Windows has received a staged Insider update that adds conversational, semantic file search on Copilot+ PCs and a redesigned Copilot home that surfaces recent apps, files and conversations — all packaged in Copilot app builds starting with version 1.25082.132.0 and...
Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows has taken another step toward becoming the primary way people find and act on files and apps in Windows 11, with a staged Insider rollout that adds semantic, natural‑language file and image search and a redesigned Copilot home — features gated initially to...
Microsoft has begun expanding a staged Insider preview that brings semantic file search to Copilot+ PCs and ships a redesigned Copilot home inside the Copilot app for Windows Insiders, packaging natural‑language file and image discovery alongside a new, context‑aware workspace that surfaces...
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Microsoft has begun rolling out a staged update that brings semantic file search and a redesigned Copilot home to the Copilot on Windows app for Windows Insiders, with the semantics-driven search initially available only on certified Copilot+ PCs and the new homepage surfacing recent apps...
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Microsoft has started a staged Insider rollout of a notable Copilot app update for Windows (version 1.25082.132.0 and higher) that brings semantic file search to eligible Copilot+ PCs and a redesigned Copilot home that surfaces recent apps, files and Vision-powered guided help directly inside...
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