telemetry

Kaspersky’s telemetry snapshot landed like a warning siren for IT teams and home users: more than half of monitored devices in the vendor’s dataset were still running Windows 10 as Microsoft’s official end-of-support deadline approached, leaving a large population of endpoints exposed the moment...

If you value privacy on your PC, the single most important Windows 11 switch to flip is the Send optional diagnostic data toggle — and you should understand precisely what flipping it does, what it does not do, and the safe ways to reduce the diagnostic pipeline between your machine and...

If you value privacy on Windows, start by switching off the “Send optional diagnostic data” toggle — it’s the single easiest setting to reduce the amount of behavioral and usage data Windows 11 ships back to Microsoft, and it’s buried in Settings > Privacy & security > Diagnostics & feedback...

Windows 11 ships polished and modern — but that polish often hides a surprising amount of preinstalled software, background services, and telemetry hooks that can drain performance and privacy. A recent community guide focused on removing bloatware and disabling tracking lays out a practical...

Windows’ built‑in telemetry — labeled “Diagnostics & feedback” in Settings — collects far more than crash reports by default, and every Windows user should understand what’s being sent, what they can realistically block, and the trade‑offs involved before they decide whether to turn it down or...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Gaming Copilot — an AI-powered, in‑overlay assistant for players — into Windows 11 via the Xbox Game Bar, bringing voice-first help, screenshot-aware guidance, achievement tracking, and personalized recommendations directly into the play session. Background and...

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...

After decades of promises that never quite fixed Windows Search, Microsoft has finally shipped a working semantic search layer to Windows 11 — but it’s arriving in a very specific way: behind the Copilot+ hardware gate, previewed to Insiders, and baked into both the system search surfaces and...

Microsoft appears to be quietly experimenting with an “AI agent” entry point for the Windows 11 taskbar — a small, persistent companion that could surface context-aware assistance, link into Copilot features, and even perform multi‑step actions on behalf of the user. Traces of a feature labeled...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27943 to the Canary Channel — a compact, maintenance‑focused flight that addresses several user‑facing annoyances while flagging two significant deployment blockers Insiders and developers must weigh before installing. Background / Overview...

Microsoft’s Xbox Copilot branding is surfacing in two very different ways across the PC ecosystem this month — one familiar and hardware-focused, the other new and AI-driven — and the overlap is creating both promising accessibility gains and real confusion about what’s actually available to...

Inforcer’s recent elevation into Microsoft’s MSP-focused Intune initiative marks a tangible step toward making Microsoft 365 more manageable, secure, and AI-ready for Managed Service Providers — and it comes at a moment when MSPs desperately need standardized, scale-ready tooling to extract...

Microsoft's latest in‑app prompt inside Microsoft Paint has quietly pulled back the curtain on a new experiment: selected Windows 11 users are being invited to opt into what the UI calls Microsoft AI Labs, a dedicated testbed for pre‑release AI features that — for now — mostly amounts to a...

Microsoft’s long‑promised AI sidekick for players is finally rolling into the PC Game Bar: Xbox’s Gaming Copilot — marketed simply as Xbox Copilot or Gaming Copilot (Beta) — is being deployed to Windows PC users via the Xbox Game Bar starting today, with an Xbox mobile release planned for...

Microsoft has quietly folded an AI coach into the Windows 11 Game Bar: Gaming Copilot (branded as Xbox Copilot in some builds) is rolling out to Xbox Insiders now, promising voice, screenshot and context-aware help without leaving the game — and the early beta exposes both a practical leap in...

Kingston’s new DC3000ME Gen5 U.2 SSD arrives as one of the clearest statements yet that PCIe 5.0 enterprise flash is moving out of the OEM-only channel and into mainstream procurement — a high-capacity, 1‑DWPD data center drive with Gen5 performance, broad security and telemetry features, and...

Microsoft’s latest in‑app prompt — a subtle “Try experimental AI features” banner inside Microsoft Paint — is the first public sign of a broader program internally referred to as Windows AI Labs, an opt‑in testbed Microsoft appears to be rolling out to let users preview and evaluate pre‑release...

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...

Windows desktop market-share data flipped twice this summer: after StatCounter showed Windows 11 briefly overtaking Windows 10 in July 2025, August’s snapshot reversed some of that gain and put Windows 11 back under the 50% mark while Windows 10 recovered several points—an unexpected wobble with...

Microsoft has quietly begun rolling out an opt‑in testing channel called Windows AI Labs, a program that invites selected users to try experimental AI features inside built‑in Windows 11 apps — first observed in Microsoft Paint — and which appears designed to gather structured feedback and...