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Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7674 (delivered as KB5074170) to the Dev Channel, a maintenance-focused flight that restores several File Explorer behaviors while simultaneously advancing the Dev servicing baseline into the new 26300 series — a move that changes how...

Microsoft has pushed KB5074105 to the Windows Insider Release Preview channel, delivering builds 26100.7701 and 26200.7701 with a mix of targeted bug fixes, accessibility and creator-focused upgrades, and a handful of system‑level security and deployment changes that administrators and...

Today’s Dev-channel update moves the Windows 11 Insider preview forward: Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7674 (KB5074170) to the Dev Channel, advancing the Dev stream into the 26300-series and closing the immediate window that allowed Insiders to migrate from Dev to...

Microsoft’s latest Insider flight quietly turns two of Windows’ humblest utilities into active testbeds for on-device and cloud-backed AI, adding a prompt-driven AI Coloring book to Paint and deeper Markdown and streaming AI capabilities to Notepad—features currently rolling out to Windows...

Microsoft’s humble Notepad has quietly graduated from a one‑trick, plain‑text scratchpad into a lightweight, Markdown‑aware authoring surface with optional AI-powered writing tools — and the company is doing it in a softly opt‑in way that keeps the old, minimal experience intact while exposing...

Microsofthe has quietly shipped a pair of deliberate, user-facing updates to two of Windows 11’s oldest inbox apps — Notepad and Paint — adding richer Markdown handling and streaming AI text in Notepad, and an on-device, Copilot‑gated Coloring Book plus improved fill control in Paint, with the...

Microsoft has begun rolling a targeted set of updates to Notepad and Paint for Windows Insiders, bringing deeper Markdown support, faster streaming AI responses in Notepad, and a new Copilot-powered Coloring book generator and improved fill controls in Paint — changes that illustrate Microsoft’s...

Microisoft has quietly expanded Notepad’s capabilities again, adding richer Markdown editing (including strikethrough and nested lists), a first-run “What’s New” welcome pane, and improved streaming for its AI writing features — updates appearing first to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev...