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    Master Windows Terminal Profiles for Seamless Multitasking

    Windows Terminal has quietly become the practical way most Windows users — from hobbyists to full-time devs and sysadmins — now manage command‑line work, and its profile system is the single feature that makes traditional shortcuts look increasingly quaint. Background Windows Terminal began as...
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    Share with Copilot: Windows 11 Taskbar Button for Vision AI

    Windows 11 Insiders are now seeing a new, unexpected entry in the parade of Copilot entry points: a floating “Share with Copilot” button that appears when you hover over an open app on the taskbar and use the window preview. The button launches Copilot Vision against the contents of that window...
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    Windows 11 Insider Preview: Your accounts and Copilot integrations in Build 26220.6690/26120.6690

    Microsoft has quietly pushed a new Insider preview package — KB5065786 — that surfaces a focused set of account-management refinements alongside deeper Copilot integrations and a long list of fixes and known issues, delivered as Build 26220.6690 to the Dev Channel and Build 26120.6690 to the...
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    Microsoft Sets 3-Day In-Office Baseline for Puget Sound Hybrid Work

    Microsoft’s announcement that Puget Sound employees who live within 50 miles of a Microsoft office will be expected in the office three days a week by the end of February 2026 is a decisive reset of hybrid norms at one of Big Tech’s most consequential firms — and it changes the framing of...
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    Notepad Gets On-Device AI with Copilot+ — Summarize, Write, Rewrite

    Microsoft is rolling AI into the smallest, most ubiquitous text editor on Windows — Notepad — by adding on‑device generative features for Copilot+ PCs, and the changes signal a meaningful shift in how Microsoft blends local and cloud AI across Windows inbox apps. Overview Notepad’s September...
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    Windows 11 Inbox Apps Get Local AI: Notepad, Paint, Snipping Tool Upgrade

    Microsoft is quietly rolling out another round of practical — and strategically significant — updates to three of Windows 11’s oldest built‑in utilities: Notepad, Paint, and Snipping Tool. Insiders in the Dev and Canary channels can already try a mix of incremental UX improvements and larger...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Goes Collaboration-First: AI Agents in Teams and SharePoint

    Work is changing shape: Microsoft is shifting Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal assistant into a set of collaboration-first agents that live inside Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage — effectively giving every team, meeting, project, and community an AI teammate that acts on shared context...
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    Windows 11: Balancing AI with Everyday Productivity Fixes

    Microsoft’s recent nudge to users — asking “what do you miss most in Windows?” — is more than a PR moment; it’s a revealing sign that the company is wrestling with conflicting priorities for Windows 11: glossy AI capabilities and the long list of everyday quality‑of‑life features that power...
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    Windows 11 Widgets: Quick Guide to Add, Customize, and Use

    Windows 11’s Widgets board is an underused but powerful way to surface the information you need without opening full apps — and adding, customizing, or removing widgets is straightforward once you know where to look and what to expect. This guide distills the practical steps for adding and...
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    Windows 11 Updates: Paint .paint, Snipping Tool Quick Markup, Notepad On-Device AI

    Microsoft is rolling meaningful updates to three of Windows 11’s most-used inbox apps — Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad — delivering editable project files, faster in-capture markup, and local AI capabilities on Copilot+ hardware that together nudge these utilities from “basic” toward...
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    Google Spotlight-style Windows search with Lens and AI Mode

    Google has quietly pushed a Spotlight‑style search experience onto the Windows desktop: an experimental, keyboard‑first Google Search app that summons a floating search bar with Alt + Space and can return results from local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web — and it bundles Google...
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    Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad Gain AI Features in Windows Insider Builds

    Microsoft’s long‑running habit of quietly modernizing its smallest apps reached a clear milestone this week as Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad received coordinated feature updates in Windows Insider builds — features that push these familiar utilities from convenience tools toward real...
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    Notepad adds offline AI on Copilot+ PCs: Summarize, Write, Rewrite

    Microsoft has started shipping a Notepad update for Windows 11 that brings true on‑device generative AI — including Summarize, Write, and Rewrite — to Copilot+ PCs, and those capabilities can run entirely offline without a Microsoft account or a paid subscription when executed locally on...
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    Google's Spotlight-style Windows search with Lens and AI Mode

    Google’s experiment quietly drops a compact, Spotlight‑style search bar onto the Windows desktop — summonable with Alt + Space — that unifies local files, installed apps, Google Drive and the web, and layers in Google Lens and an optional AI Mode for conversational, multimodal answers...
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    Five Windows 11 Automations That Speed Up Your Day

    I stopped treating my Windows 11 PC like a personal to-do list and let five small automations do the boring, repetitive work — the result felt like a genuine speed boost in my daily flow. Overview Windows 11 is fast when it’s doing the heavy lifting, but it’s the tiny, repeated tasks — opening...
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    Windows 11 Insider: Paint, Snipping Tool & Notepad Get On-Device AI

    Microsoft is quietly turning three of Windows 11’s oldest, most familiar utilities — Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad — into more capable, workflow-focused apps by adding an editable project format, in-capture markup, and on-device AI features for Copilot+ hardware, with the changes rolling out...
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    Windows Snipping Tool Quick Markup, Paint Brush Opacity, Notepad AI Copilot+

    Microsoft is bringing a major workflow improvement to the Snipping Tool: a new “Quick markup” mode that lets you annotate screenshots before they're captured, plus simultaneous updates to Paint and Notepad that push these long-neglected utilities toward more advanced, productivity-focused use...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot on iOS: AI Previews, Edits Move to Office Apps

    Microsoft is redesigning the mobile Copilot experience on iOS: beginning this fall the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will act primarily as an AI-powered viewer and conversational hub, offering in-context file previews, summaries and Q&A — while editing for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files will be...
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    Google App for Windows: Spotlight-style Desktop Search with Lens and AI

    Google’s experiment brings its search engine and visual AI directly to the Windows desktop with a compact, Spotlight‑style overlay that promises to search your PC, Google Drive, installed applications and the web from a single keystroke. Background / Overview Google has quietly expanded the...
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    AI-Enhanced Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad Arrive for Windows Insiders

    Microsoft is rolling out a fresh set of updates to three of Windows 11’s most ubiquitous utilities—Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad—to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels, delivering both small UX wins and consequential AI features that shift how everyday creation and capture...
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