productivity tools

Microsoft has pulled the sheets back on a new Windows 11 feature called "Recall", and let's just say—it’s dividing the crowd. Imagine giving your PC a "photographic memory" to snapshot almost everything you do, organizing it into a searchable timeline. Sounds futuristic and cool, right? Well, it...

A small toggle in Windows 11’s next major update might signal a surprisingly profound shift in the balance between digital propriety and authentic self-expression. In the latest Insider Preview builds, Microsoft is rolling out an option that allows users to turn off the built-in profanity filter...

A funny thing happens on the road to making technology more “human”—we start running into all the awkward little edges of real humanity. Case in point: Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider Preview builds have given voice typing a long-overdue upgrade. For years, if you pressed Windows+H to...

Millions of Windows users woke up this morning, clicked “Check for Updates” with fingers crossed, and found a shiny new beast waiting in the wings: the Windows 11 KB5055627 preview update, otherwise known as the one with more bullet points than your average IT manager’s to-do list. Microsoft has...

Imagine having a work colleague who quietly follows you around, jotting down everything you do, remembering it all, but promising not to gossip. That, in a nutshell, is Copilot Recall for Windows 11: the digital equivalent of a photographic memory, now actually rolling out to the public, after...

For years, PowerPoint’s comment system has left presenters and collaborators alike on a collision course with chaos: move a slide, and suddenly, that context-rich comment from your colleague vanishes into the digital abyss. The nightmares of orphaned feedback fragments popping up in the wrong...

Not content with letting you paint your desktop in weird pastel hues or chasing you down with AI-powered widgets, Microsoft is now ready to add a little more, shall we say, color, to your conversations—by letting you toggle off the profanity filter for voice typing in Windows 11. That’s right...

It’s been a long twelve months of waiting, speculating, and, for a select few Windows insiders: bragging. Now, Microsoft’s highly anticipated AI-powered features for Copilot+ PCs—Recall, improved Windows Search, and Click to Do shortcuts—are rolling out to mere mortals across the globe, one...

If you thought your PC already knew a little too much about you, strap in, because the age of Copilot+ PCs has arrived—and they’re not just smart, they’re a little bit psychic. Gone are the days when your computer was content to silently judge your 137 open browser tabs; now, with the latest...

If you’re a Windows die-hard, mildly Office-addicted, or just a task management tragic who’s been burned by a million freemium apps making empty promises (and aggressive pushes for your credit card), let’s talk about the unlikely productivity darling: Microsoft To Do. You’ve heard it...

It’s not every day your digital office assistant starts looking less like a paperclip and more like a Silicon Valley prodigy. Yet here we are, watching Microsoft 365 Copilot evolve from buttoned-up Office plugin to full-fledged business partner—on a mission to embed artificial intelligence so...

Microsoft’s much-hyped Copilot key — their latest effort to turn keyboards into magical productivity portals — is about to be a little less attention-seeking. If you’ve been following Redmond’s never-ending quest to find the one key to rule them all, you’ll remember Microsoft spoke of the...

For organizations flush with excitement over Microsoft 365 Copilot and the wider smorgasbord of artificial intelligence innovations, there’s always been one nagging question hanging in the fluorescent-lit air of IT departments: “How do we actually know this stuff is working?” Sure, the demos are...

The future of multitasking just might require less desk, more pixels—and don’t be surprised if the person next to you at the café is staring intensely into the middle distance, seemingly working on a spreadsheet that only they can see. Welcome to the dawn of the 100-inch virtual multi-monitor...

Open your Edge browser, click the familiar new tab button, and instead of the usual MSN barrage assaulting your eyeballs with “shocking” news stories and viral cat hacks, you’re now greeted with a much quieter (and frankly more existential) prompt: “How can I help you today?” That’s...

Open a new tab in Microsoft Edge today and you’re greeted by the familiar: a central Bing search bar, flanked (or, let’s be honest, crowded out) by a melange of MSN headlines, lifestyle quizzes you never asked for, weather widgets, and perhaps the latest update on llama escapees in Belgium...

Windows users everywhere are about to breathe a faint sigh of relief—the kind you exhale when someone finally takes their finger off that one debatable button on your desktop keyboard. Yes, after a tidal wave of negative feedback, Microsoft is recalibrating the role of its infamous Copilot key...

With a flourish that would make even the most caffeinated knowledge worker blink twice, Satya Nadella—Microsoft’s ever-optimistic CEO—recently declared, “Copilot has truly become the UI for AI – and for me, it's the scaffolding for my workday.” Anyone else getting flashbacks to the days when...

Microsoft has decided the best way to make your mornings less caffeine-dependent is by unleashing a new fleet of AI agents, not to fetch your coffee, sadly, but to supposedly “streamline your workday.” On a balmy Wednesday (because all major announcements are made midweek — probably after...

Microsoft is doubling down on its AI vision, and this time, it’s not just offering smarter spellcheckers or an extra-helpful Clippy—no, Redmond’s aiming much higher. Microsoft’s new Copilot Wave 2 Spring release brings forth what they call “AI agents”—autonomous coworkers powered by OpenAI’s...