privacy and telemetry

  1. Windows 11 Canary Build 27938: AI Actions in Explorer, Seconds Clock, and AI Activity

    Microsoft’s latest pre-release whisper to the Windows Insider Program’s most experimental ring landed with a thud of déjà vu: the Canary channel recently received a new build — reported as Build 27938 — that mainly repackages features already seen elsewhere in the Insider ecosystem, notably...
  2. MAI-Voice-1 & MAI-1-Preview: Microsoft's In-House AI Shift

    Microsoft’s move to ship MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview marks a clear strategic inflection: the company is no longer only a buyer and integrator of frontier models but a serious producer of first‑party models engineered to run inside Copilot and across Microsoft’s consumer surfaces. Microsoft...
  3. Copilot on Samsung 2025 TVs: Vision AI Brings AI to the Big Screen

    Samsung and Microsoft have agreed to bring Microsoft Copilot — the company’s generative AI assistant — to Samsung’s 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors, folding natural‑language AI into large displays via Samsung’s new Vision AI framework and a Copilot web experience built into the screens. This move...
  4. Windows 10 ESU rollout explained: enrollment options and planning

    Microsoft’s slow, staged rollout of the Windows 10 Enroll now (ESU) wizard means the extension lifeline Microsoft promised for legacy PCs is available — but not instantly visible to everyone, and it comes with conditions and caveats that every Windows 10 user should understand before relying on...
  5. Microsoft's New Windows Update Platform to Revolutionize Third-Party App Management

    The upcoming transformation of Windows Update promises to fundamentally reshape how third-party application updates are delivered, monitored, and controlled across the Windows ecosystem—a move that signals both a deepening of Microsoft's commitment to platform integrity and a shift toward a more...