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Microsoft’s long‑running habit of quietly modernizing its smallest apps reached a clear milestone this week as Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad received coordinated feature updates in Windows Insider builds — features that push these familiar utilities from convenience tools toward real...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a coordinated set of updates to three of Windows 11’s long‑standing inbox apps — Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad — delivering practical workflow improvements for creators and a notable expansion of on‑device AI that’s gated to Copilot+ hardware for now...

Microsoft is quietly rolling out another round of practical — and strategically significant — updates to three of Windows 11’s oldest built‑in utilities: Notepad, Paint, and Snipping Tool. Insiders in the Dev and Canary channels can already try a mix of incremental UX improvements and larger...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider builds are shipping a new, full-screen renewal prompt aimed at lapsed Microsoft 365 subscriptions — an eye-catching SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) screen that insiders and early reports describe as a full‑screen nag to renew rather than a...

Google has quietly moved search closer to the Windows desktop with a new experimental app that surfaces web results, Google Drive documents, installed applications, and files on your PC from a single floating search bar — all summonable with a simple Alt + Space shortcut. Background The new...

Mozilla’s stable channel just received a substantial refresh: Firefox 143 lands with Microsoft Copilot available inside the AI sidebar, experimental Google Lens visual search, Windows taskbar web‑app pinning, and a batch of security fixes that administrators and power users should install right...

Google’s experimental Windows app aims to remove the friction of switching windows to look something up — a floating, Spotlight‑like search bar you summon with Alt + Space that can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web, and that folds in Google Lens and the company’s AI...

Microsoft Edge is quietly experimenting with a new Visual Search shortcut inside its floating desktop search box on Windows 11, letting users drop images onto a small camera-enabled UI and get Bing-powered image results — all without opening a full browser window first. Background Microsoft’s...

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 Canary-channel whisper — reported as Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27938 — brings a practical blend of AI-powered shortcuts in File Explorer and a small but widely requested UI restoration: a larger Notification Center clock that shows seconds. The headline items are...

Microsoft’s latest pre-release whisper to the Windows Insider Program’s most experimental ring landed with a thud of déjà vu: the Canary channel recently received a new build — reported as Build 27938 — that mainly repackages features already seen elsewhere in the Insider ecosystem, notably...