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Microsoft’s latest Insider releases deliver a pair of practical, long-overdue fixes for File Explorer and a small but meaningful taskbar flyout tweak — improvements that polish daily Windows use but also underline how incremental and staged modern OS evolution has become. Overview In early...

Windows Insiders received a quietly odd patch this week: the latest Beta and Dev preview packages add a handful of small but useful features — a one‑click network speed test in the taskbar and a Copilot onboarding screen during Get Started — and then, without fanfare or explanation, Microsoft...

Microsoft’s latest Paint update reframes the long‑running app as a serious low‑friction image editor by adding an editable project file format and per‑tool opacity controls — features that put Paint squarely in the conversation as a free, entry‑level alternative to Photoshop for everyday tasks...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a coordinated set of updates to three of Windows 11’s oldest built‑in utilities — Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad — to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels, delivering a mix of practical workflow improvements and strategically important on‑device AI...

Microsoft has made Windows 11’s annual refresh—version 25H2—available as official ISO media to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview channel, completing the packaging that IT teams, OEMs and advanced users need for clean installs and image-based testing even as the bulk rollout continues to be...

Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows 11 is shedding its “chat-first” skin and opening a new, dashboard-style Home tab that behaves less like a conversational window and more like an AI-centric Start menu — surfacing recent files, apps, conversations, and guided help in one place. Background Microsoft...

Microsoft quietly pulled back the promised ISO images for Windows 11, version 25H2 this week, updating its Release Preview announcement to say the ISOs are “delayed and coming soon” even as the update itself lands in the Release Preview channel as an enablement-package style release. Background...

Microsoft's decision to retire the Mobile Plans app for Windows marks the end of a small but strategic piece of the company's push to make cellular connectivity a first-class feature on PCs, and it raises immediate questions for users of eSIM-enabled laptops, OEMs, and mobile operators about...

Microsoft has quietly begun testing a conversational, meaning‑aware file and image search inside the Copilot app on Windows 11, bringing natural‑language discovery and a redesigned Copilot home to Windows Insiders on Copilot+ PCs as part of a staged Microsoft Store preview. Background /...

Microsoft has begun quietly testing a conversational, semantic file and image search inside the Copilot app on Windows 11, bringing natural‑language discovery and a redesigned Copilot home to Windows Insiders on Copilot+ PCs as part of a staged Microsoft Store rollout. Background Microsoft's...

Microsoft’s Copilot app for Windows has received a staged Insider update that adds conversational, semantic file search on Copilot+ PCs and a redesigned Copilot home that surfaces recent apps, files and conversations — all packaged in Copilot app builds starting with version 1.25082.132.0 and...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a staged update that brings semantic file search and a redesigned Copilot home to the Copilot on Windows app for Windows Insiders, with the semantics-driven search initially available only on certified Copilot+ PCs and the new homepage surfacing recent apps...

Microsoft has quietly — and usefully — begun rolling out a set of AI-powered discovery tools in Windows while the broader gadget world churns with new hardware leaks and a blunt reminder from Google: IP ratings are real, but they aren’t a lifetime guarantee. Background / Overview August’s tech...

Microsoft is quietly expanding Copilot's remit inside Windows 11, now testing an AI-driven, semantic file and image search directly inside the Copilot app for Windows Insiders — a change that replaces keyword- and filename-only lookups with natural-language queries and a redesigned Copilot home...

Microsoft has begun rolling out an update to the Copilot app on Windows that brings semantic file search to Copilot+ PCs and a redesigned Copilot homepage to Insiders, delivering tighter, AI-driven file discovery and faster access to recent apps, files, and guided help directly inside the...

Microsoft’s security lead, David Weston, has painted a future in which Windows listens, sees, and acts like a digital coworker — and where the traditional mouse and keyboard feel as antiquated as MS‑DOS does to today’s young adults. This bold vision is rooted in Microsoft’s push for agentic AI...

Microsoft has sketched a sweeping “Windows 2030 Vision,” teasing a future where AI agents, voice, and other multimodal cues do much of the work we handle today with a mouse and keyboard. In a new company video, Microsoft security executive David Weston argues that by the end of the decade...

Microsoft has recently addressed a longstanding concern for multi-monitor users by enhancing Windows 11's taskbar functionality. In the latest preview builds, users can now access the notification center and calendar flyout directly from the taskbar on any connected monitor, a feature previously...

Here’s a summary of the news and its implications regarding Microsoft’s new move: Microsoft is rolling out new logging tools in the latest Windows 11 development builds to address systems' sluggishness and performance problems. The goal is to help Microsoft better identify, analyze, and...

Microsoft's Copilot Vision is a groundbreaking feature in Windows 11 that enables the AI assistant to observe and interact with your screen in real time, offering contextual assistance across various applications and tasks. This functionality represents a significant advancement in integrating...