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Microsoft’s official guidance for the Movies & TV app clarifies how device association works, how to view the devices tied to your account, and how to remove a device when you reach capacity — but it also reveals practical limits and policy quirks that every Windows user who buys or downloads...

Firefox’s latest release delivers the kind of practical Windows-focused refinements power users have been asking for — and a high-profile AI tie‑in that will keep privacy wonks and enterprise admins debating for weeks. Background / Overview Mozilla’s rapid-release cadence means the browser you...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer a distant novelty tucked away in press releases — it’s in your apps, and a short video can teach you more than hours of reading. Whether you want Copilot to draft faster in Word, crunch numbers in Excel, triage email in Outlook, or turn chaotic meeting notes into...

Microsoft’s latest packaging of its agent-building tools — now split into Copilot Studio Lite and the Copilot Studio Full Experience — is less a rename and more a strategic reframe: the company is clarifying who these tools are for, where they run, and how enterprises should govern them. The...

Tmux turns a single terminal into a full multitasking workspace, letting you run, manage, and persist multiple shells from one connection so long-running jobs don’t force you to keep a window open or interrupt your workflow. Background If you’ve ever started a long rsync, a build, or a migration...

Microsoft's decision to stop providing free security updates for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025 — a move that campaigners say could instantly strand hundreds of millions of otherwise functional PCs — has crystallised a new, urgent debate in Europe about software-driven obsolescence and whether...

Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot desktop app on Windows machines that already have Microsoft 365 desktop clients installed, a background rollout slated to start in early October and run into mid‑November 2025 — and while enterprise tenants can opt out, most...

Microsoft will begin installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app automatically on Windows devices that already have the Microsoft 365 desktop apps, a background rollout that starts this fall and is expected to reach completion by mid‑November — but it won’t happen for devices in the European...

Microsoft will begin automatically installing the standalone Microsoft 365 Copilot app onto many Windows devices this fall, pushing a dedicated Copilot entry into the Start menu on eligible machines unless administrators explicitly opt out — a move Microsoft describes as a background...

Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly evolving from a conversational assistant into a multi-modal, transactional platform — and recent test-build evidence shows the company is explicitly styling that evolution around three pillars: search that surfaces explicit references, shopping and order...

Mozilla’s latest stable build, Firefox 143, lands as a pragmatic — and at times polarizing — update: it brings a sidebar shortcut to Microsoft Copilot and the wider AI-chat ecosystem while doubling down on user-facing privacy controls, accessibility fixes, and platform-specific media and web-app...

Microsoft has released KB5066360, a targeted hotpatch for Windows PowerShell that corrects an interoperability and security regression affecting PowerShell Direct (PSDirect) when host and guest virtual machines are unevenly patched; the update is a no-restart hotpatch for eligible systems and...

Windows shipping with System Restore (System Protection) turned off by default is one of those small, baffling defaults that quietly raises the stakes when things go wrong — but it’s also an easy fix that can save hours of troubleshooting and a reinstall. The built‑in System Restore feature...

Microsoft is retiring the built-in Mobile Plans app and moving eSIM purchase and provisioning to a web-first model where carrier websites handle checkout while Windows Settings manages secure device provisioning and identifier consent. Background / Overview The Mobile Plans app — a small...

Microsoft will begin automatically installing the standalone Microsoft 365 Copilot app in the background on many Windows devices that already run Microsoft 365 desktop clients, with a notable carve‑out for devices in the European Economic Area — a move that promises faster feature rollout and...

Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on many Windows devices this fall, but the rollout is neither universal nor unstoppable — administrators and privacy-conscious users have documented methods to block installation and disable the feature, and Microsoft...

For a surprising number of Windows systems, the guilty party behind intermittent stutters, dropped frames, and mysteriously sluggish behaviour isn’t a CPU pegged at 100% or a full SSD — it’s the tiny, sub-millisecond interruptions inside the kernel that LatencyMon can expose and quantify in...

AMD's recent engineering notes and driver rollouts close several long-standing installation pain points for Windows users, but they also expose recurring process weaknesses that enthusiasts and IT pros should know before clicking "Install." Background Over the past two years, AMD has been...

Microsoft’s MAI launch is a deliberate pivot: the company is taking the pieces it once licensed, packaging them with native infrastructure and orchestration tools, and betting the future of productivity on a team of specialized agents rather than a single, monolithic brain. This matters for...

Microsoft’s release of a Windows SDK for Facebook — a native, open-source library that brings full Facebook login, Graph API access, feeds, photo uploads and Like functionality into Universal Windows apps — marks a deliberate push to make Windows a more attractive, social-first platform for...