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By 2026 the question is no longer whether generative AI will change work — it’s how teams rearrange their days around the outputs these systems produce and the new expectations they create. Background / Overview The quiet revolution of 2024–2026 wasn’t a single breakthrough model or a flashy...

Microsoft’s Copilot ecosystem now has a formal bridge to the rest of an enterprise’s systems: the Model Context Protocol (MCP). That bridge is no niche add-on — MCP is an open, standardized protocol designed to let large language model (LLM) agents discover and call external tools, query...

Microsoft’s move to bake agentic AI into both Office and Windows is more than a feature update — it’s an architectural shift that treats AI assistants as identity‑bound, auditable workers inside enterprise IT stacks. The company’s recent announcements stitch together in‑app automation (Agent...

Microsoft’s Ignite keynote made one thing unmistakably clear: the company is no longer presenting AI as a set of isolated features — it is repositioning Copilot as an agent orchestration platform and Windows as an agentic OS, and that shift puts new operational, security and governance...

Meta’s latest WhatsApp update has quietly swapped the native Windows client for a WebView2 wrapper that simply loads the web interface — and early tests show a dramatic hit to memory use, responsiveness, and tight Windows 11 integration. Background WhatsApp’s Windows client has come full circle...

Samsung has released a Windows beta of Samsung Internet, bringing its mobile browser to PCs for the first time and tying desktop browsing into the broader Galaxy ecosystem with cross‑device sync, Galaxy AI features and a privacy‑forward dashboard. Background / Overview Samsung Internet has been...

For years a clean Windows install began with the same ritual: install a handful of third‑party utilities that felt like essentials. Those small programs filled real gaps—turning phones into webcams, rescuing awful screenshots, taming compressed archives, and providing the kind of real‑time...

Meta’s Quest platform is getting one of its most visible home‑screen and cloud‑connectivity overhauls in years with Horizon OS v81 — an update that rebuilds the Quest Home experience, tightens the link to Windows 11 via Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Link, and pushes Horizon Worlds closer to the...

You don’t need a full desktop workstation to tap into modern artificial intelligence — in 2025 a well‑chosen smartphone and the right apps are enough to write, design, research, translate, and automate whole swathes of work and creativity on the go. This feature revisits the “10 best AI apps to...

Microsoft’s Xbox division is openly signaling a pivot: the company’s next console generation will be positioned as premium, curated and technically ambitious — and that shift looks likely to push retail prices well above today’s norms while tightening the technical ties between Xbox, Windows and...

The ability to run Linux GUI apps directly on Windows through WSLg has quietly turned a developer-focused convenience into a practical everyday workflow — and not just for terminals and servers. Tools like HiFile, Foliate, and Apostrophe show how select Linux-native apps can make more sense on...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer a neat demo or a sidebar curiosity — it has become a deeply woven productivity layer across Windows, Microsoft 365 apps, OneDrive, and the Edge browser, and choosing whether to adopt it requires weighing clear time-saving gains against licensing, privacy, and...

Microsoft has quietly turned a gentle nudge into a full-court press: the company is actively moving Windows users away from Mail & Calendar and the classic Outlook client toward the modern, web-powered new Outlook for Windows, and it’s doing so with scheduled automatic rollouts, built-in opt-out...

AI chatbots are now answering more questions — and, according to a fresh NewsGuard audit, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often, producing inaccurate or misleading content in roughly one out of every three news‑related responses during an August 2025 audit cycle. Background The...

Samsung’s new IFA lineup lands as a careful, incremental push to make flagship features more attainable: the Galaxy S25 FE tightens the S-series value proposition, the Galaxy Tab S11 family presses thinner and lighter into tablet territory, and the Galaxy Buds3 FE brings a Buds3‑style audio...

Microsoft is quietly preparing a broader rollout of Copilot Appearance — an animated, voice-enabled avatar for Copilot — while testing UI shifts and expanded memory controls that bring Microsoft’s assistant closer to the interaction patterns already familiar from ChatGPT, Gemini and other modern...

Microsoft has quietly crossed a strategic Rubicon: after years of tight integration with OpenAI, the company has begun shipping its own first-party foundation models — notably MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview — and is positioning them inside Copilot and Azure as the start of a long-term bid to...

Windows Subsystem for Linux has quietly become one of the most consequential developer features in Windows 11 — not because it’s flashy, but because it removes long-standing friction between two operating systems that many of us need to use every day. What used to require dual‑booting, slow...

Microsoft has started testing a native Android-to-PC handoff in Windows 11—beginning with Spotify—so you can start a song or podcast on your phone and continue with a single click on your desktop, complete with a one‑click app install if Spotify isn’t already on your PC. The preview is rolling...

Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are no longer just browsers—they’re sprawling platforms where AI, privacy controls, and even gaming features are being used as battlegrounds to win users’ attention and loyalty. Background / Overview The modern browser fight is about more than page-load times and...