Microsoft's September cumulative for Windows 11 has landed and, rather than being a quiet maintenance release, it mixes visible UI polish, a handful of useful quality fixes and a fresh batch of staged, hardware-gated AI features — with one very practical sting in the tail: the cumulative...
Microsoft’s optional August preview for Windows 11 24H2—packaged as KB5064081 and advancing eligible systems to OS Build 26100.5074—arrives as a substantial mix of staged AI features, UI polish and reliability fixes, plus an updated servicing stack that administrators should treat carefully...
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Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...
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Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC pitch promised a new class of Windows machines where on-device intelligence — powered by dedicated NPUs — would deliver privacy-friendly, instant AI features that change how we use a laptop every day. After a year of hands-on testing and watching Microsoft’s rollout, the...
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Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Release Preview build packs another wave of AI features — but the single addition many users want most is still gated behind Copilot+ hardware, and that restriction exposes the wider tensions in Microsoft’s AI-first roadmap for the OS. (blogs.windows.com)
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Microsoft’s newest messaging about the future of Windows makes a simple, startling claim: the next generation of the OS will be multimodal and agentic—able to see, hear, and act on users’ behalf—and that voice and vision will become first-class inputs alongside (and sometimes ahead of) the mouse...
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Microsoft’s latest public remarks about the direction of Windows — voiced by Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s VP of Windows and Devices, and echoed by OS-security lead David Weston — sketch a future operating system that is ambient, agentic, and multimodal: one that sees what’s on your screen...
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One week after Microsoft released its short “vision” video for the future of Windows, Pavan Davuluri — the executive directly responsible for Windows product development — laid out, in clear and practical terms, how on-device AI, multimodal inputs, and cloud orchestration will reshape the...
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This month’s Patch Tuesday isn’t just another round of security fixes — it’s a functional pivot for how Windows 11 helps you recover, control, and interact with your PC. Microsoft’s preview updates introduce Recall export and reset controls (EEA-only export), a system-level Quick Machine...
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Microsoft has unveiled a comprehensive suite of AI-powered enhancements for Windows 11, marking a significant leap forward in personal computing experiences. With nearly 60% of users now employing generative AI for work purposes and 64% for personal projects, Windows 11 positions itself as the...
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