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Microsoft Paint has quietly gained yet another AI trick: Restyle, a one‑click, preset‑driven style transfer tool that applies artistic looks — pop art, sketch, cyberpunk, impressionist and more — to images on the canvas, but Microsoft is initially limiting the feature to Copilot+ hardware and...

Microsoft has marked the Windows Insider Program’s 11th anniversary with a familiar — and deliberately human — touch: a set of custom wallpapers for desktop and phone, created with the Windows Design team as a thank‑you to the community that has shaped Windows for more than a decade. Background...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a targeted preview of Restyle — a new AI-powered image style-transfer tool inside Paint — to Windows Insiders on Windows 11, delivering a one-click way to transform the aesthetic of images on the canvas from the Copilot menu and gating the capability to Copilot+...

Microsoft is marking the Windows Insider Program’s 11th birthday with a small but meaningful gesture: two new anniversary wallpapers, offered in light and dark variants and in both widescreen and square aspect ratios for desktops, tablets, and phones. This release is as much a nod to community...

Microsoft has quietly begun delivering Restyle — an AI-powered style‑transfer tool integrated directly into the Paint app — to Windows Insiders, bringing one‑click artistic restyling to the in‑box image editor while gating access by Copilot+ hardware and signed‑in Microsoft account requirements...

Microsoft has quietly introduced Restyle — an AI-powered style‑transfer tool inside the Paint app — and begun a targeted rollout to Windows Insiders, bringing one‑click artistic restyling to the in‑box editor while gating access by Copilot+ hardware and account sign‑in requirements. Background /...

Microsoft’s recent support bulletin and subsequent community reports have exposed a sharp operational edge of identity hardening: after installing October/September updates on Windows 11 (24H2 and 25H2) and Windows Server 2025, some environments experienced widespread Kerberos and NTLM...

Microsoft has quietly acknowledged and begun to roll out fixes for a trio of user-facing Windows problems that have been causing confusion and operational headaches: the long‑standing “Update and shut down” mismatch on Windows 11, isolated — and currently hard‑to‑corroborate — lock‑screen...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview builds extend the system-wide Dark theme into long-neglected corners of File Explorer and several legacy dialogs, eliminating many of the jarring white “flash” moments that have plagued Dark mode users and delivering a tangible quality‑of‑life polish ahead of...

Microsoft’s latest Insider checkpoint tightens a set of small but meaningful UX loose ends: the preview package reported as KB5067106 brings Build 26220.6972 to the Dev channel (25H2) and Build 26120.6972 to Beta (24H2), extending dark-mode coverage inside File Explorer, adding a supported...

Microsoft has pushed a targeted repair to Windows 11 Insider builds that addresses a clutch of long-standing update failures and File Explorer crashes, including the notorious install error code 0x800f0983 and a “Catastrophic Error (0x8000FFFF)” that could appear when extracting large archives...

Microsoft today pushed a new Dev Channel cumulative to Insiders: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6972 (KB5067106), a relatively small but targeted flight that continues the 26220.xxxx Dev‑channel stream and ships a handful of new toggle‑gated experiences, quality fixes, and persistent...

Microsoft today rolled a focused Canary-channel update that restores a long-requested multi‑monitor convenience and bundles a handful of reliability fixes for Insiders — but the flight remains distinctly experimental and should be treated as such by anyone running Canary hardware or VMs...

Microsoft is testing an experimental Copilot agent called Copilot Actions that can autonomously operate desktop and web apps on Windows — including sending emails, updating local documents, resizing photos, organizing files, and running multi‑step workflows — all from within a contained, opt‑in...

Microsoft’s October Insider waves delivered a concentrated set of experiments — from polished dark‑mode fixes to new AI touches and a visible rethink of the Start menu — giving Insiders a clear snapshot of the company’s near‑term priorities for Windows 11. What shipped in the first half of...

Microsoft has quietly given the Copilot app in Windows 11 a practical, low-friction upgrade: when you ask Copilot about a system preference, it can now jump you directly to the exact Settings page that controls that option, saving clicks, guesswork, and frustrating menu diving. This "Direct...

Microsoft has started previewing a Copilot update for Windows 11 that can directly open and explain individual Windows Settings pages from inside the Copilot app — a small change on the surface that meaningfully improves discoverability, accessibility, and contextual help for everyday Windows...

Microsoft began rolling out a targeted update to the Copilot app on Windows on October 13, 2025, that gives Windows Insiders direct, conversational access to specific Windows Settings from the Copilot chat experience—an incremental but meaningful step toward deeper OS integration for Microsoft’s...

This week’s Microsoft round-up reads like a compact weekend thriller: Apple launched a high‑profile ad mocking last year’s mass BSOD incident, Microsoft pushed a visible Start‑menu redesign into Insider rings while quietly changing legacy .NET packaging, OneDrive received a major Copilot and...

Microsoft has pushed two small but strategically meaningful Windows 11 preview builds to Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels — Dev build 26220.6780 (KB5067103) and Beta build 26120.6780 (KB5067103) — that refine how on‑device AI and sharing UX work on Copilot‑enabled PCs, expand the Drag...