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Microsoft’s new full‑screen Xbox experience for Windows handhelds—sold as a controller‑first, console‑style shell—has begun appearing on existing Windows handheld PCs ahead of the ROG Xbox Ally family’s retail debut, with enthusiasts enabling the interface via Windows 11 25H2 preview builds and...

Microsoft has quietly shipped two companion Release Preview builds — Build 26100.6718 (24H2) and Build 26200.6718 (25H2) — as part of the small cumulative package KB5065789, addressing a set of high‑impact regressions (notably the persistent 0x80070002 update failure and DRM playback breakage...

Microsoft has quietly shipped small but important updates to the Windows 11 Release Preview channel — Build 26100.6718 for Windows 11 version 24H2 and Build 26200.6718 for 25H2 — rolling several stability fixes and clarifications into the pre-release stream while delaying one headline feature...

Microsoft has quietly posted official Windows 11 ISO images for Insiders, giving testers, OEMs, and IT teams the first gated chance to perform clean installs and full out‑of‑box experience (OOBE) validation for the upcoming Windows 11 feature update — the 25H2 Release Preview build family (Build...

Microsoft has pushed fresh Release Preview updates for both Windows 11 and Windows 10 this week, delivering targeted reliability fixes for real‑world scenarios and a terse Windows 10 rollup aimed at keeping late‑life devices stable while organizations complete migration plans. Background /...

Microsoft’s Release Preview rings received another quiet pair of cumulative updates this week: one for Windows 11 and one for Windows 10, both described by Microsoft as small, stability-focused fixes rather than new features—an unsurprising posture as Windows 10 approaches end of support and...

Microsoft’s continued migration of legacy Control Panel features into the modern Settings app has taken another step forward: recent Windows 11 Insider preview builds contain hidden, in-progress pages that surface longstanding keyboard controls and a redesigned haptic touchpad panel inside...

Microsoft has quietly put the “Windows 12” party on hold: the next public release from Redmond is Windows 11, version 25H2, arriving as a lightweight enablement update in the second half of 2025 rather than a ground-up OS reboot — and that decision changes what upgrade planning should look like...

Microsoft has started seeding an optional Release Preview update — KB5065789 — that previews key parts of the upcoming Windows 11 25H2 enablement package, bringing early access to AI-powered productivity features, accessibility upgrades, new emoji, and a handful of desktop and gaming refinements...

Microsoft’s new Access Review Agent for Entra ID promises to turn one of the most tedious and error-prone identity-governance chores into a guided, AI-assisted workflow inside Microsoft Teams — but the convenience comes with clear prerequisites, operational trade-offs, and governance...

Microsoft’s latest Release Preview update for Windows 11 brings a concentrated set of AI-driven features to Insiders — and one of the most eye-catching is the expansion of Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR) to more titles, but with a strict hardware caveat: Auto SR remains gated to Copilot+...

Microsoft has begun seeding KB5065789 to the Release Preview Channel, delivering targeted accessibility and productivity upgrades to Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 — notably an improved Narrator with a new Braille Viewer and more natural table/list reading, and an expanded Click to Do that...

Microsoft’s latest Release Preview update for Windows 11 arrives with built-in AI actions for File Explorer, bringing image edits and Copilot-powered document summarization to the right‑click menu while also polishing Advanced Settings, sharing, emoji support, and several developer- and...

Microsoft’s latest Release Preview channel updates make a small but meaningful usability change: you can now choose where on-screen hardware indicators — the volume, brightness, airplane mode and virtual desktop flyouts — appear on your display, and that’s just the tip of what landed in the...

Microsoft’s recent servicing work quietly strips two long‑standing legacy administration tools — Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WMIC (wmic.exe) — from new Windows 11 images and from the 25H2 enablement cycle, a change Microsoft documents in its formal support bulletin (KB 5065506) and that is...

Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6682 (KB5065782) to the Dev Channel on September 12, 2025, and the flight brings a focused set of AI-driven productivity updates, accessibility refinements, and a broad collection of stability fixes — while also surfacing a few noteworthy...

Microsoft is seeding two new Release Preview updates today for Windows Insiders running Windows 11, version 24: Build 26100.6713 and Build 26200.6713, delivered as cumulative packages identified in the announcement as KB5065789. The flight targets Release Preview ring testers and continues...

Microsoft has quietly completed the last public validation step for Windows 11 version 25H2 by publishing official ISO installation media to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview channel, a move that puts clean-install and imaging workflows back into IT teams’ hands ahead of a likely October...

Microsoft's decade-long desktop workhorse is entering its final weeks of mainstream servicing as Microsoft winds down Windows 10 and prepares to stop issuing routine updates and quality-of-life fixes ahead of the platform's end-of-support deadline on October 14, 2025. This transition is not a...

Microsoft’s latest Canary-channel flight, Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27943, is a compact but consequential maintenance update that repairs a handful of user-facing regressions — most notably a stuck Temporary files scan in Settings and an HDR toggle that would mysteriously disable itself —...