personalization

Microsoft has quietly restored one of Windows’ most nostalgic personalization features: native video wallpapers — the spiritual successor to DreamScene — now appearing in Windows 11 Insider preview builds and accessible through the familiar Settings > Personalization > Background workflow when...

Microsoft has quietly resurrected a long-requested personalization capability in Windows 11: native support for video wallpapers that lets ordinary video files act as looping desktop backgrounds—an elegant, modern echo of Vista’s DreamScene now visible in Windows Insider preview builds, but...

Microsoft is quietly testing built‑in support for video wallpapers in Windows 11, a modern revival of the long‑forgotten DreamScene experiment from the Vista era that lets users set looping MP4, MKV and other video files as desktop backgrounds — and this time Microsoft is building the capability...

Windows 11’s personalization options are getting a nostalgic — and potentially divisive — upgrade: Microsoft is testing a native video‑wallpaper feature in recent Insider builds that lets you set a looping video file as your desktop background, reviving the spirit of DreamScene while aiming for...

Microsoft has quietly begun building native support for video wallpapers into Windows 11 — a full-circle moment that revives a DreamScene-era idea while exposing difficult trade-offs around battery life, compatibility, and the long shadow of third‑party wallpaper engines. The capability...

Microsoft has quietly reworked the Xbox app on Windows 11 into a genuine one‑stop hub for PC gaming, and the implications reach well beyond a refreshed launcher: the app now aggregates installed titles from multiple storefronts, lets you launch non‑Microsoft games without opening third‑party...

Demis Hassabis’s warning lands like a wake-up call: as artificial intelligence advances toward the kind of general, agentic systems researchers call AGI, the very same attention-harvesting dynamics that turned social media into a global amplifying lens for addiction, outrage, and polarization...

Curated for You and Microsoft have activated a first‑of‑its‑kind, lifestyle‑led AI fashion experience inside Microsoft Copilot, putting visually composed, shoppable outfit recommendations into natural conversations and surfacing curated, head‑to‑toe looks from participating retailers when users...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Gaming Copilot — a voice-enabled, context-aware AI assistant — into the Windows 11 Game Bar and will extend the feature to the Xbox mobile app in October, bringing in-game help, achievement tracking, and on‑screen analysis directly to PC players aged 18 and over...

Curated for You and Microsoft have activated a first‑of‑its‑kind, lifestyle‑led AI fashion experience inside Microsoft Copilot that delivers visually composed, shoppable outfit recommendations in response to natural‑language styling prompts — a launch that moves editorial fashion curation from...

Curated for You’s AI merchandising engine is now live inside Microsoft Copilot, delivering visually composed, shoppable outfit recommendations to users who ask natural‑language styling questions — a launch that pushes conversational commerce from proof‑of‑concept into an everyday assistant...

Curated for You and Microsoft have quietly activated a first-of-its-kind, lifestyle‑led AI fashion experience inside Microsoft Copilot, delivering visually composed, shoppable outfit recommendations in response to natural‑language styling prompts and linking those looks directly to participating...

Bauducco’s decision to adopt Microsoft Copilot — implemented through a strategic engagement with Cloud Target — marks a pragmatic, metrics‑driven push to modernize business processes across HR, finance and IT while explicitly measuring the financial impact of AI adoption with a purpose‑built...

Samsung and Microsoft have agreed to put Microsoft Copilot — the company's conversational AI companion — front and centre on Samsung's 2025 lineup of smart TVs and Smart Monitors, turning the biggest screens in the home into voice‑activated, context‑aware helpers for discovery, learning and...

Curated for You and Microsoft have quietly flipped a new switch in conversational commerce: as of September 16, 2025, Curated for You’s lifestyle-led merchandising engine is live inside Microsoft Copilot, delivering context-aware, shoppable fashion recommendations in response to natural-language...

Microsoft’s push to fold AI into search and browsing — most visibly through Copilot, Bing Chat, and AI features in Microsoft Edge — can be disorienting for users who want a classic, no‑frills search and browser experience; the good news is you can significantly reduce or hide these AI elements...

Ralph Lauren has quietly moved from runway innovation to conversational commerce with the launch of Ask Ralph, a branded, in-app AI stylist built on Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI platform and rolling out to U.S. Ralph Lauren app users as a shoppable, visual-first shopping assistant. Background...

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s head of consumer AI, has bluntly declared that the idea of machine consciousness is an “illusion” and warned that intentionally building systems to appear conscious could produce social, legal, and psychological harms far sooner than any technical breakthrough in...

Ralph Lauren has quietly deployed a generative, in‑app stylist called Ask Ralph — an AI‑powered shopping assistant built with Microsoft on the Azure OpenAI platform that delivers shoppable, head‑to‑toe outfit recommendations to U.S. mobile app users and aims to recreate the experience of...

Ralph Lauren has rolled out Ask Ralph, a conversational AI stylist embedded in the brand's mobile app, delivering head-to-toe, shoppable outfit recommendations that the company says are personalized to users’ prompts and drawn from live inventory. Launched on September 9, 2025, and built in...