I avoided Copilot for years, but after forcing myself to try specific features I quietly use them every day — not because the assistant is flawless, but because a handful of targeted tools actually save time and reduce friction in common tasks. The move from novelty “chatbot” to practical...
Microsoft’s latest update to Copilot for Windows 11 pushes the assistant farther into the OS — adding third‑party extensions that let Copilot act on your behalf across the web, new “settings” skills that can change system options for you, and AI enhancements in core apps like Photos and...
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Microsoft’s vision of a future Windows where you “talk to your PC” is less a finished product than an aggressive bet on changing workplace culture — and whether that bet pays off depends as much on human behavior as on silicon and software.
Background: what Microsoft is saying — and what PCWorld...
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Microsoft’s latest Insider flight continues the slow‑roll of Copilot‑era polish and cross‑device continuity: Build 26200.5761 (KB5064093) landed in the Insider channels with a staged “Resume from your phone” flow that starts with Spotify, refreshed lock‑screen battery visuals, snappier input and...
Microsoft’s latest headline-maker isn’t an official product roadmap or a Redmond press release — it’s a cinematic concept video and a string of executive hints that together sketch a vision of what a post‑Windows‑11 world might look like: a highly adaptive, AI‑first operating system that’s...
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Paul Thurrott’s latest Windows Weekly episode—titled “Backing Up the Intel Truck”—is a compact but consequential briefing on where Microsoft’s Windows strategy is headed, and it reads like a roadmap: AI-first user experiences, multimodal interactions that make voice and vision first-class...
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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 has begun rolling out a staged Windows Insider preview that adds two tightly linked AI features to the Copilot app: semantic file search for locating documents and images with natural‑language queries, and a redesigned Copilot home that surfaces recent files, apps and Vision‑driven...
Microsoft’s latest Copilot update for Windows 11 is quietly expanding the assistant’s remit from a sidebar helper into a more capable, context-aware productivity hub by testing AI-powered semantic file and image search inside the Copilot app and a redesigned Copilot home that pairs recent...
Microsoft has begun rolling out an update to the Copilot app on Windows that brings semantic file search to Copilot+ PCs and a redesigned Copilot homepage to Insiders, delivering tighter, AI-driven file discovery and faster access to recent apps, files, and guided help directly inside the...
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Microsoft has begun rolling out a targeted update to the Copilot app on Windows that brings semantic file search to Copilot+ PCs and introduces a redesigned Copilot homepage for Windows Insiders, marking a clear step toward tighter on‑device AI integration in Windows. rr channel updates over the...
A last‑ditch legal challenge has turned Microsoft’s scheduled October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support for Windows 10 into a national news story and a test case over vendor lifecycle obligations, with a San Diego plaintiff asking a court to force Microsoft to continue issuing free security updates until...
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Microsoft’s next big Windows chapter has become as much about how the company ships features as what it ships — and that makes separating fact from fiction around “Windows 12” more important than ever. The article you supplied lays out the mainstream rumors: a cleaner UI with deeper AI at its...
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Microsoft’s newest public framing of Windows isn’t merely about faster updates or refreshed icons — it’s a clear signal that the desktop is being rewired around generative AI, voice control, and computer vision, and that the humble mouse and keyboard will likely shift from default inputs to one...
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Microsoft’s newest messaging about the future of Windows makes a simple, startling claim: the next generation of the OS will be multimodal and agentic—able to see, hear, and act on users’ behalf—and that voice and vision will become first-class inputs alongside (and sometimes ahead of) the mouse...
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Microsoft’s latest public remarks about the direction of Windows — voiced by Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s VP of Windows and Devices, and echoed by OS-security lead David Weston — sketch a future operating system that is ambient, agentic, and multimodal: one that sees what’s on your screen...
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Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday lands as a combined servicing stack and cumulative update that not only patches the usual security holes but also delivers a substantive set of user-facing improvements for Windows 11 version 24H2 — including Copilot+ feature updates, a redesigned...
Microsoft has published KB5065500, a quiet but important component update that advances the Image Processing AI subsystem to version 1.2507.797.0 for Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11 version 24H2 — a targeted push that continues Microsoft’s strategy of shipping on-device AI...
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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...
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Microsoft has pushed a quiet but consequential component update to the Image Transform AI module — KB5065502 — which delivers Image Transform version 1.2507.797.0 to Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, version 24H2, replacing the prior 1.2507.793.0 release and installing automatically through...
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