on-device ai

  1. Copilot+ PCs: Local AI on Windows with High-Performance NPUs

    Microsoft’s push to make AI a built‑in, local capability on Windows has produced a distinct class of machines — Copilot+ PCs — and with them a set of features you simply won’t get on ordinary Windows laptops unless you send your data into the cloud. The features range from turning a few sloppy...
  2. Windows 11 25H2 Release Preview: eKB Enablement, AI, and Enterprise Controls

    Microsoft has made Windows 11, version 25H2 (Release Preview Build 26200.5074) available to the Release Preview channel — a near‑final, enablement package release that flips features already staged in the 24H2 servicing stream and brings a focused set of manageability, security, and AI...
  3. Copilot+ Accessibility on Windows: 4 Features for a More Conversational PC

    Microsoft’s short explainer on the four headline accessibility features for Copilot+ PCs reads like a manifesto for making Windows more conversational, readable, and usable — and it’s worth unpacking what those promises mean in practice, what’s already here, and where the trade‑offs lie...
  4. Windows 11 25H2 Release Preview: Enablement Package for Stability and Admin Control

    Microsoft has pushed Windows 11, version 25H2 into the Release Preview channel as a deliberately small, operational update — an enablement package that flips features already staged throughout the 24H2 servicing stream rather than delivering a headline, consumer-facing feature list — and...
  5. August 2025 Windows Servicing Wave: OOBE Patches, AI, and Backup GA

    Microsoft’s August 2025 servicing wave is the most operationally significant Windows 11 release window in months: it moves day‑one patching into the Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE), promotes Windows Backup for Organizations to general availability, extends hotpatching across server and (limited)...
  6. Windows 10 End of Support 2025: Is Dell 16 Plus the AI PC Upgrade You Need?

    Microsoft has set a hard deadline: Windows 10 reaches end-of-support on October 14, 2025 — and that looming cut-off is now the single clearest reason for many users to seriously consider new hardware, not just a software update. The message in recent sponsored coverage for the Dell 16 Plus is...
  7. Copilot Appearance: Microsoft's animated AI avatar with voice and memory controls

    Microsoft is quietly preparing a broader rollout of Copilot Appearance — an animated, voice-enabled avatar for Copilot — while testing UI shifts and expanded memory controls that bring Microsoft’s assistant closer to the interaction patterns already familiar from ChatGPT, Gemini and other modern...
  8. Copilot adds three-file synthesis in web and Windows app

    Microsoft quietly bolstered Copilot’s document smarts this week, enabling multi-file analysis that lets the assistant reason across multiple uploads in a single request rather than treating each file in isolation — a ChatGPT-style capability now visible in the Copilot web and Windows 11 app and...
  9. Windows 11 25H2 Release Preview: Enablement Package and Enterprise Changes

    Microsoft has moved the next annual Windows 11 update — Windows 11, version 25H2 (Build 26200.5074) — into the Release Preview testing ring, opening the final validation window for Insiders and commercial pilots ahead of a broader public rollout later this calendar year. The update is not a full...
  10. Copilot on Samsung Vision AI: 2025 TVs and Monitors

    Samsung and Microsoft have quietly moved the next phase of conversational AI out of the pocket and onto the living‑room wall: Microsoft Copilot is now embedded in select Samsung 2025 Smart TVs and Smart Monitors as part of Samsung Vision AI, accessible from Tizen by voice or remote and surfaced...
  11. Windows 11 25H2 Arrives as a Lightweight Enablement Package (eKB) in Release Preview

    Microsoft has quietly pushed Windows 11, version 25H2 (Build 26200.5074) into the Release Preview channel — and unlike many headline OS releases, this one arrives as a lightweight enablement package (eKB) that flips features already staged on devices rather than replacing the whole...
  12. Agent-first Design: How Microsoft's Copilot and AI Agents Transform Indian IT Services

    Microsoft’s product road map is quietly changing from feature road maps and sprint backlogs to prompt-first design and agent-led prototyping, a shift the company’s global chief product officer, Aparna Chennapragada, laid out in a recent interview describing how Microsoft’s enterprise AI agents...
  13. Windows 11 25H2 Release Preview: Enablement Package and IT Readiness

    Microsoft has moved Windows 11, version 25H2, into the Release Preview Channel, a clear sign the company considers this year’s annual feature update production‑adjacent and ready for final validation by Insiders, IT pilots, and commercial customers. The update is being delivered as a small...
  14. Windows 11 25H2 Enablement Package: Stability, Manageability, On-Device AI

    Microsoft’s next Windows 11 annual update, version 25H2, is not a headline-grabbing reinvention of the desktop — it’s a deliberate, operationally focused release that prioritizes stability, manageability, and measured AI integration over bold new consumer-facing flourishes. This update arrives...
  15. Windows 11 25H2 Release Preview: Enablement package and SSD controversy

    Microsoft has pushed Windows 11, version 25H2 into the Release Preview channel while publicly denying any link between August’s cumulative updates and a rash of user-reported SSD failures — a week that illustrated both Microsoft’s increasingly disciplined servicing model and the fragility of...
  16. Vivaldi's Stand Against AI in Browsers: Privacy, Human Agency, Publisher Visibility

    Jon von Tetzchner’s renewed vow to keep generative AI out of Vivaldi’s browser has turned what might have been a niche product decision into a full‑scale manifesto about the future of the web — and a direct challenge to Google and Microsoft’s push to bake AI into the browsing experience...
  17. Windows 11 25H2 Release Preview: Enablement Package for Fast, Low-Impact Upgrades

    Windows 11’s next annual feature update is now moving from staged preview into its final validation ring: Microsoft has made Windows 11, version 25H2 available to Release Preview Insiders and commercial customers for targeted testing, delivered as an enablement package on top of the 24H2...
  18. Samsung Copilot on 2025 TVs: The Living Room AI Assistant

    Samsung has built Microsoft Copilot into its 2025 lineup of smart TVs and Smart Monitors, turning the living room’s largest screens into voice‑first, conversational companions that can summarize shows, recommend content, translate dialogue, and perform light productivity tasks on compatible...
  19. Edge Scareware Blocker Expands to Block Scam Sites and Share with Defender SmartScreen

    Microsoft Edge's experimental Scareware Blocker is graduating from a single-user popup interrupter to a broader, system-strengthening feature that can block scam sites and — in the Canary channel — optionally share detected scam links and classifications with Microsoft’s Defender SmartScreen...
  20. KB5066123: AMD Image Processing AI Update 1.2508.906.0 on Windows 11 Copilot+

    Microsoft has quietly published KB5066123, an Image Processing AI component update that advances the component to version 1.2508.906.0 for AMD-powered Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, version 24H2 — a targeted, vendor-specific push to refine on-device image processing used by Photos, Camera...