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Microsoft’s latest push to make Windows 11 feel less like an operating system and more like a conversational partner landed with a carefully timed tease — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…” — and a follow-up roll‑out that stitches voice, vision, on‑device...

Microsoft’s short, playful tease — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — landed the same week the company officially closed the chapter on Windows 10, and the timing is as deliberate as it is provocative: Microsoft signaled a major...

Microsoft’s short, teasing post — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — may be the clearest signal yet that Windows 11 is poised to push voice and conversational AI from an accessible add‑on into a mainstream, system‑level...

Microsoft’s tease landed like a wink: “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” That short, playful post from the official Windows account set off a predictable and well‑informed wave of speculation — and for good reason. Over the past...

Microsoft’s short, tongue‑in‑cheek social post promising that “your hands are about to get some PTO” has reignited speculation that Windows 11 is about to take a major step toward hands‑free computing — and the evidence suggests Microsoft won’t be talking about simple dictation tweaks, but about...

Microsoft’s brief, teasing message — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — landed across social channels and tech press as an intentional pivot in messaging: short, evocative, and timed to maximize attention as millions of Windows...

Microsoft’s push to make Windows feel more like a conversational, AI-driven operating system took a practical step forward this year: Copilot can now access and change Windows Settings so you can customize your PC using natural language. The new Settings agent — advertised as Windows’ first...

Microsoft’s latest preview build for Windows 11 deepens the OS’s on-device intelligence by expanding an AI agent inside the Settings app for Copilot+ PCs — a change that brings contextual, actionable suggestions and one‑click automation driven by local neural processing units (NPUs), but also...

Microsoft’s incremental but meaningful upgrade to the Windows 11 Settings experience has just landed in the Beta channel preview — and it makes the OS’s best AI feature noticeably more useful, but only for Copilot+ PCs with the necessary on‑device NPU hardware. Background Microsoft has been...

Microsoft’s new “Enhance your artwork with AI” messaging reflects a decisive push to make generative tools part of everyday creative workflows on Windows — from quick, on-device edits in Paint to cloud‑backed image generation in Copilot and Designer — and that push brings both exciting creative...

Microsoft’s latest pitch for an “intelligent Windows” is being built around a tiny chip inside some new laptops — the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) — but the business case, user benefits, and long-term implications remain murky even as device makers rush to ship AI-capable hardware. Background...

Intel’s Panther Lake is the first mainstream laptop platform built on Intel’s 18A process — and it’s a clear, coordinated bet that Intel can regain momentum in mobile silicon by marrying advanced manufacturing (RibbonFET, PowerVia), a modular chiplet approach, and bigger on-device AI and...

Intel’s Panther Lake refresh does more than reorder product names; it gives Intel’s Arc graphics a renewed and pragmatic role inside mainstream Windows laptops by pairing a new Xe3 integrated GPU architecture with stronger AI and upscaling features that promise real-world gains in games and...

The approaching end of support for Windows 10 has turned routine hardware refresh conversations into a time‑boxed migration problem—and many small and medium businesses are answering that problem by buying into a new category of Windows 11 machines marketed as AI PCs or Copilot+ PCs that promise...

Intel’s Panther Lake looks like the most consequential mobile refresh in years, and for one crowded, fast-moving corner of the PC market — handheld gaming — it may finally give Intel the combination of performance, efficiency, and graphics features needed to seriously challenge AMD’s lead...

Microsoft’s latest Surface Pro Copilot+ PC has landed in the conversation as both a hardware statement and a pricing headline this week, with deal write-ups claiming the 13-inch OLED Snapdragon X Elite model (16 GB RAM / 256 GB SSD) has been discounted to roughly $899 during Amazon’s Prime Big...

Microsoft’s Photos app on Windows 11 has shipped a sharply focused—but hardware‑gated—AI upgrade that automatically sorts receipts, screenshots, handwritten notes and identity documents and brings on‑device “super resolution” upscaling to Copilot+ PCs, but the most useful parts of the update are...

Microsoft Edge is quietly being rebuilt around Copilot: recent tests show you can now point the browser’s AI at the tabs you have open — literally sending those tabs into a Copilot conversation — and Microsoft is preparing a complementary feature called Journeys that would summarize days of your...

Microsoft’s long-term roadmap for Windows is no longer just feature updates and UI tweaks — it’s built around on-device AI agents that can take actions for you, reduce clicking and typing, and reshuffle how software is built and composed on the PC. In recent messaging from Microsoft executives...

Microsoft’s pitch that a “tiny” chip — the neural processing unit (NPU) — will be the fulcrum of a more intelligent Windows is more than marketing copy: it’s the engineering axis of the Copilot+ PC initiative and the backbone of several AI features shipping in Windows 11’s recent updates...