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Acer Africa is dangling a free Android tablet to shoppers who buy select AI‑ready Windows 11 laptops as Microsoft’s Windows 10 end‑of‑support deadline approaches on October 14, 2025, a move that spotlights how OEM promotions and AI‑first marketing are shaping upgrade decision-making in South...

Microsoft appears to be steering Windows back toward an annual, generational-style release cadence after a period of smaller, incremental feature updates — driven largely by a planned AI-first platform internally codenamed Hudson Valley and built on a new base called Germanium. Multiple industry...

Microsoft's vision for Windows is no longer limited to desktops or a single input device — it's a multi-layered strategy that stitches cloud-first hardware, on-device AI accelerators, and richer multimodal interactions into a single computing continuum meant to be more ambient, private, and...

Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5751 (KB5064071) to the Beta Channel, a modest but meaningful update for Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2 that refines Click to Do selection, softens some visual chrome in File Explorer, and continues Microsoft’s phased “controlled...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Release Preview build packs another wave of AI features — but the single addition many users want most is still gated behind Copilot+ hardware, and that restriction exposes the wider tensions in Microsoft’s AI-first roadmap for the OS. (blogs.windows.com) Background...

Microsoft’s Windows team is sketching a future in which your PC is less a passive tool and more a conversational partner — one that lives in the cloud, understands voice and vision, and uses context to anticipate and act on your intent. That is the core of Pavan Davuluri’s message: Windows will...

Microsoft’s plan to make Windows listen, see, and act is an engineering and product pivot of genuine consequence — but the company’s renewed faith in multimodal inputs (voice, vision, pen, touch) and pervasive on-device AI must clear two big hurdles before it can be called a success...

One week after Microsoft released its short “vision” video for the future of Windows, Pavan Davuluri — the executive directly responsible for Windows product development — laid out, in clear and practical terms, how on-device AI, multimodal inputs, and cloud orchestration will reshape the...

Microsoft's Windows lead has just sketched the next major evolution of the platform: an ambient, multi‑modal, agentic operating system that sees and hears what you do and partners with you through natural language. In a recent interview, Pavan Davuluri — Microsoft’s head of Windows — described a...

You’ve just powered on a Copilot+ PC and that first blink of the Windows logo feels like a reveal: this isn’t just another laptop—it’s a handset for a new generation of on-device AI, marketed to be faster, smarter, and longer-lived than the machines many of us replaced. Microsoft’s “Copilot+”...

Microsoft has released KB5065504, a Phi Silica AI component update (version 1.2507.797.0) targeted at Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs, and it will be delivered automatically through Windows Update to systems running Windows 11, version 24H2 that meet Copilot+ hardware requirements...

Microsoft has issued KB5065505, a targeted on-device AI update that advances the Phi Silica component to version 1.2507.797.0 for AMD-powered Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, version 24H2 — a quiet but technically significant rollout that tightens Microsoft’s strategy for delivering local...

Microsoft has released KB5065503, a targeted update that advances the on-device language model stack on Copilot+ Windows PCs by pushing the Phi Silica AI component to version 1.2507.797.0 specifically for Qualcomm-powered systems — a minor but meaningful step in Microsoft’s strategy to move...

KB5065505 is a Microsoft update that delivers Phi Silica AI component version 1.2507.797.0 targeted to AMD-powered Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11 (version 24H2). (support.microsoft.com) Overview and what this article covers What KB5065505 is and which devices it applies to. What Phi Silica is...

Microsoft has pushed a targeted component update for Copilot+ Windows 11 devices running on Qualcomm silicon: KB5065499, which updates the Image Processing AI component to version 1.2507.797.0 and is distributed automatically via Windows Update for devices running Windows 11, version 24H2...

Microsoft’s latest on-device AI refresh landed quietly in August: KB5065503 updates the Phi Silica AI component to version 1.2507.797.0 for Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PCs, bringing another round of NPU-targeted optimizations and stability work aimed at improving local Copilot experiences on...

Microsoft has released KB5065504, a Phi Silica AI component update that advances the on-device language model to version 1.2507.797.0 for Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, version 24H2 — the update is delivered automatically through Windows Update, requires the latest cumulative...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a targeted update for Phi Silica — version 1.2507.797.0 — aimed at Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PCs, delivering on-device model improvements while replacing the previous July release; the package installs automatically via Windows Update for eligible devices and...

KB5065504 — Phi Silica AI component update (v1.2507.797.0) for Intel-powered systems Summary On August 12, 2025 Microsoft published KB5065504, a component update that delivers Phi Silica version 1.2507.797.0 for Intel‑powered Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, version 24H2. The update is described...

Microsoft has pushed a targeted component update — KB5065500, which advances the Image Processing AI component to version 1.2507.797.0 for Intel‑powered Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11 version 24H2, delivering a modest set of improvements to on‑device image scaling and foreground/background...