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Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 updates mark a decisive pivot: Copilot is no longer a sidebar novelty but the operating system’s new conversational, visually aware layer — summoned by the wake phrase “Hey, Copilot”, able to see what’s on your screen, and, with explicit consent, permitted to...

Title: The next PC platform shift? Ed Bott on Microsoft’s big Windows AI bet — what it means for users, OEMs, and developers Introduction Ed Bott — a veteran technology journalist who has covered Microsoft for more than three decades — recently laid out a straightforward but consequential...

Microsoft’s late‑September reshuffle that reunified the bulk of Windows engineering under Pavan Davuluri is a structural signal: Microsoft is no longer content to treat advanced AI features as surface‑level apps bolted onto Windows — it has chosen to centralize responsibility for the platform so...

Microsoft’s short, teasing post — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — may be the clearest signal yet that Windows 11 is poised to push voice and conversational AI from an accessible add‑on into a mainstream, system‑level...

Microsoft’s push to graft Copilot into every corner of Windows — now including a “Gaming Copilot” inside the Xbox Game Bar — marks a deliberate attempt to make AI the default assistant for players, not just knowledge workers; the problem is that the current implementation too often treats...

Microsoft’s short, playful tease — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — landed the same week the company officially closed the chapter on Windows 10, and the timing is as deliberate as it is provocative: Microsoft signaled a major...

Microsoft’s brief, teasing message — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — landed across social channels and tech press as an intentional pivot in messaging: short, evocative, and timed to maximize attention as millions of Windows...

Microsoft's short, cheeky tease — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday” — is more than a playful marketing line; it’s the clearest public hint yet that Microsoft plans to push voice and multimodal interaction farther into Windows’...

Microsoft’s future Windows is being sketched in two very different places right now: inside Redmond, where engineering and product teams are double‑downing on Windows 11 and AI-driven features, and across the internet, where imaginative designers are already releasing cinematic “Windows 12”...

Microsoft’s long-term roadmap for Windows is no longer just feature updates and UI tweaks — it’s built around on-device AI agents that can take actions for you, reduce clicking and typing, and reshuffle how software is built and composed on the PC. In recent messaging from Microsoft executives...

Microsoft’s Windows engineering teams have been reunified under a single organizational umbrella and, in the same breath, a controversial report has surfaced claiming Microsoft 365 Copilot has only about 8 million paying subscribers — developments that together cast a long shadow over...

Microsoft’s claim that a “tiny” chip will make Windows noticeably smarter is no longer vaporware: the company has formally tied the next wave of Windows intelligence to dedicated neural processing hardware — Neural Processing Units (NPUs) — and a new device tier called Copilot+ PCs, which must...

Windows keeps getting updated, and the quickest way to know what it’s doing on your PC is to check the version — a step that takes seconds but can shape whether your apps run, your data stays protected, and whether features like Copilot are even available to you. This practical guide explains...

This week’s Windows‑centric conversation landed at the intersection of two tectonic shifts: AI’s rapid industrialization and Arm silicon finally staking a credible claim in premium Windows PCs — a blend of strategic maneuvers and product reveals that leaves Microsoft, hardware partners, and...

Microsoft’s push to make on-device AI a first-class citizen on Windows reached a major milestone this week: Windows ML is now generally available for developers, delivering a production-ready inference runtime, a managed execution-provider ecosystem, and a set of developer tools designed to make...

Microsoft’s new 18‑second commercial for Copilot Labs lands like a concentrated marketing shot: bright visuals, brisk pacing and a single-minded message — Copilot is experimental, useful, and already part of everyday workflows — yet the ad’s brevity masks a deeper conversation about how...

Microsoft is quietly testing a Copilot Labs experiment called Portraits that would let users pick from 40 animated, non‑photorealistic 3D avatars — powered by Microsoft Research’s VASA‑1 — and speak to them in voice mode, according to an internal description surfaced by testers; the rollout...

Microsoft is pouring megabucks and marketing muscle into a narrative that Copilot+ PCs — Windows machines with on-device neural engines and specially tuned Windows subsystems — will remake personal and enterprise computing. The message is clear: these machines are faster than Macs, sip far less...

Eliezer Yudkowsky’s call for an outright, legally enforced shutdown of advanced AI systems — framed in his new book and repeated in interviews — has reignited a fraught debate that stretches from academic alignment labs to the product teams shipping copilots on Windows desktops; the argument is...

Microsoft Paint is quietly evolving from a tiny utility into a surprisingly capable image editor, and the latest Insider build shows Microsoft is leaning into features that make Paint behave more like a lightweight Photoshop — including a new editable project file, per-tool opacity controls...