staged rollout

Microsoft has quietly begun pushing a redesigned Start menu to a much wider audience of Windows 11 users, and the change — while not radical in visuals — is a fundamental rework of how apps, recommendations and phone integration appear in the shell. Microsoft says the refreshed Start is being...

Kenyan Windows 11 users woke up to a small but conspicuous change on January 9, 2026: a colourful, larger battery icon has started appearing on the taskbar for some machines — while the much-promised redesigned Start menu remains gated behind Microsoft’s staggered server-side rollout. Background...

Microsoft’s small-but-significant Windows 11 updates — versions 24H2 and 25H2 — added a raft of quality-of-life, accessibility, and AI-enhanced features in 2025, but many of those features are staged and not visible on every PC by default; the community-favorite tool ViVeTool can flip the local...

Microsoft ha pubblicato un secondo aggiornamento cumulativo di ottobre 2025 per Windows 11: il pacchetto preview KB5067036 porta con sé una ridefinizione visibile del menu Start, nuove integrazioni di Copilot/“Click to Do”, miglioramenti significativi per l’accessibilità (tra cui la Fluid...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6780 (KB5067103) to the Dev Channel, continuing the 25H2-era enablement-package cadence and delivering a mix of incremental Copilot-era experiments, UI polish, and a pack of reliability fixes — while reminding Insiders that many of the...

Microsoft has begun the staged rollout of the Windows 11 25H2 update — an incremental, enablement-package-based release that unlocks a raft of AI-enhanced capabilities, a redesigned Start menu, richer lock‑screen widgets, improved energy and recovery tools, and targeted enterprise manageability...

Microsoft’s 2025 Windows 11 feature update — version 25H2 — arrives as a careful, operationally minded release rather than a headline-grabbing rework: it’s an enablement package that flips on features already staged in the 24H2 servicing stream, removes a few long‑deprecated tools, and resets...

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...

I opened Paint and a small banner asked me to join “Windows AI Labs” — an opt‑in program that, according to the on‑screen card and an attached programme agreement, will let selected users test experimental AI features inside Microsoft Paint before those features are broadly released. Overview...

Microsoft pushed a new Windows 11 preview update (KB5065782) into Insider rings on September 12, 2025, delivering a focused set of Copilot-era UX refinements—most notably a redesigned Click to Do prompt box with on‑device suggestion support, updated gesture animations, Emoji 16.0, and several...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview (Build 26220.6682, KB5065782) sharpens Narrator’s reading and navigation behavior, brings a small curated set of Emoji 16.0 glyphs to the emoji picker, and rolls out incremental Click to Do (Copilot) refinements — changes that are small in headline but...

Microsoft’s September 9, 2025 Patchday brought a dense, operationally important set of fixes for Microsoft Office alongside a much larger ecosystem update—roughly eighty CVEs across Windows, Office, Azure and related components—forcing administrators to treat this month’s release as more than...

Microsoft’s latest Insider activity shows a subtle but telling change: the long‑standing green progress indicator in the File Explorer copy/move dialog has been replaced with a blue variant when the system is in Dark Mode, and several legacy file‑operation dialogs are now honoring the OS dark...

Microsoft’s long‑running UI mismatch — the glaring white or legacy‑colored copy/move progress window that interrupted Dark Mode sessions for years — is finally being updated in Insider builds, and enthusiasts have noticed a small but symbolic tweak: the familiar green progress bar is being...

Microsoft has quietly begun fixing one of Windows 11’s most persistent visual annoyances: the long-neglected file operation (copy/move/delete/permission) dialogs are finally receiving proper dark‑mode styling in Insider preview builds, and the work is rolling out in stages rather than as a...

Microsoft has concluded its investigation into the mid‑August reports that a recent Windows 11 security rollup (commonly tracked as KB5063878) “bricked” or corrupted some SSDs, saying it found no reproducible link between the update and the wave of drive disappearances — a position echoed by SSD...

Microsoft’s audit of the August Windows 11 cumulative update has closed one chapter of an unusually noisy storage scare, but it has left behind a tangle of reproducible community tests, partial vendor confirmations, and unanswered forensic questions that IT teams and power users should still...

Microsoft and Phison have now all but closed the book on the late‑August panic: after weeks of community reports, lab reproductions and headlines warning that Windows 11 24H2’s August cumulative (KB5063878) was “bricking” SSDs, thorough vendor and Microsoft testing found no reproducible link...

Microsoft says the recent reports that a Windows 11 cumulative update “bricked” consumer SSDs are not supported by its telemetry and lab findings, and vendor testing so far has failed to reproduce a fleet‑level failure tied to the August servicing wave tracked as KB5063878. Background The story...

A wave of community test results and vendor confirmations this week has put the latest Windows 11 cumulative update under a harsh spotlight: several SSDs can disappear from Windows during sustained, large write operations after installing the August 12, 2025 update (KB5063878), with a...