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Microsoft’s Windows 10 S and the accompanying Surface Laptop were less a surprise and more a strategic recalibration: a deliberately simplified, cloud-first Windows SKU paired with a premium clamshell that wore Microsoft’s design language like a banner. Announced as a classroom-friendly...

Microsoft’s File Explorer in Windows 11 is being outfitted with a fresh set of quick-action buttons and context-level shortcuts that aim to cut clicks, speed up common workflows, and fold AI-powered tasks directly into the shell — changes that show Microsoft is treating File Explorer as more...

Microsoft’s patch KB5063709 quietly repaired the enrollment path that had prevented many Windows 10 users from signing up for the company’s one‑year Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, restoring the “Enroll now” experience in Settings so eligible PCs can get security‑only updates through...

Out of the box, Windows 11 ships with defaults that favour convenience, energy efficiency, and telemetry-driven features — but those same defaults can make a new PC feel noisy, slow, or invasive. This piece explains six specific settings that are worth turning off (or at least reconfiguring) on...

Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 10 — KB5063709 — quietly did the heavy lifting many users needed: it expands the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) enrollment experience to a broad audience and repairs the enrollment wizard that prevented some people from signing...

Microsoft is giving Windows 11 users more control over OneDrive’s nagging prompts and the operating system’s inbox apps—but the headlines need unpacking: a new File Explorer option lets you snooze or turn off the “Start backup” reminder, a provisioning policy in 25H2 gives IT teams a first-party...

OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch was staged as a Google-friendly moment — Gmail and Google Calendar were shown on-screen — but the quiet, rapid work under the hood handed Microsoft a far broader, more consequential prize: deeper GPT-5 integration across Teams, SharePoint, GitHub, Copilot, and Azure that...

File Explorer in Windows 11 is powerful, but out of the box it includes modern context-menu cruft, pinned pages, and automatic folder sniffing that can slow and clutter everyday navigation — the eight Registry tweaks below strip away the noise, speed up browsing, and restore classic behaviors...

Windows on the desktop still ships with three distinct ways to protect personal data and system state — the modern Windows Backup (OneDrive-backed), the long-lived File History incremental file versioning tool, and the legacy Backup and Restore (Windows 7) system-image facility — and choosing...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-50170, a local elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver (cldflt.sys) that—when reached by a local, authorized attacker—can be abused to obtain higher privileges on affected machines. The flaw stems...

Microsoft has quietly begun planting tiny, purpose-built Microsoft 365 “companion” apps directly into the Windows 11 taskbar — compact People, File Search, and Calendar helpers that promise to shave dozens of small context switches out of the modern knowledge worker’s day. These mini‑apps are...

Windows still ships with a legacy backup utility tucked inside Control Panel — Backup and Restore (Windows 7) — and while it's not glamorous, it can still do meaningful work: granular folder backups, scheduled runs, and full system images for bare‑metal recovery, provided you understand its...

Microsoft’s decision to retire the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile scanner marks a decisive step in its product consolidation around Copilot — a move that preserves core capture and OCR capabilities but abandons several of Lens’s most convenient and accessibility-driven workflows, forcing...

Microsoft is retiring the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile app and moving its scanning and capture capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app in a phased shutdown that begins in mid‑September and completes by mid‑December, a shift that will reshape how millions of users scan...

Microsoft is winding down Microsoft Lens — the compact, no-frills mobile document scanner that began life as Office Lens — and consolidating its scanning capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app as part of a broader product rationalization around AI-first experiences. The change is...

Windows 11 ships with more productivity horsepower than it gets credit for — and many of the best time-savers are hidden behind simple keystrokes, underused system apps, and quiet defaults you can tweak in minutes. The five features below — essential keyboard shortcuts, Focus Sessions in the...

When Microsoft set October 14, 2025 as the end-of-support date for Windows 10, many home users faced a stark choice: upgrade to Windows 11, buy new hardware, or run an increasingly exposed system. Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program changes that calculation: eligible...

Microsoft’s decision to retire the popular Microsoft Lens (formerly Office Lens) mobile scanning app marks a significant change for millions of casual and enterprise users who rely on its fast, reliable capture and OCR workflows — the retirement begins on September 15, 2025, the app will be...

Microsoft has announced it will retire the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile app and fold its scanning capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app, beginning a phased retirement that starts on September 15, 2025, leads to the removal of Lens from app stores by mid‑November, and stops...

Microsoft has made a significant stride toward the future of deeply personalized AI assistants with the quiet rollout of its new Copilot “Connected apps” feature, currently enabling seamless access to files stored in OneDrive directly through the Copilot web interface. This development marks a...