Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
Microsoft's Latest Dev Build Brings Fluid Voice Dictation and Multi-Camera AI Effects to Copilot+ Windows 11 PCs
Microsoft shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.5790 (KB5065779) to the Dev Channel this week, packing new on-device AI experiences that target the voices and cameras of Copilot+ PC owners....
Windows 11 Insider Build Brings Back Clock Seconds, Trials AI-Powered File Explorer Actions
Microsoft has restored a long-requested convenience in the latest Windows 11 Insider build: the Notification Center clock can once again display seconds. The change appears alongside a more...
Satya Nadella’s 5 Daily Copilot Prompts: A Governance Playbook for Enterprise AI
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s recent X thread sharing five daily prompts for GPT‑5‑powered Copilot is more than a productivity hack—it’s a real‑world demonstration of how enterprise AI...
Windows 11 Insider Build 26120.5790: AI Dictation, Expanded Camera Effects, and Intel Rollout Priority
Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5790 landed in the Beta channel on September 5, 2025, packing two practical AI upgrades for Copilot+ PCs and a File Explorer change that has already divided...
Windows 11 25H2 Forces OneDrive Backup, But a Secret Update Makes It Easy to Undo
Microsoft has taken a controversial step with the latest Windows 11 release, version 25H2: on a clean install, OneDrive folder backup is now silently enabled whenever you sign in with a Microsoft...
Edge Canary Lets You Fine-Tune the AI Feed on Your New Tab Page – Here’s How
Microsoft has introduced a set of feed customization controls for the Copilot Discover feature in Edge Canary, giving users direct say over the AI-curated content that appears on their New Tab Page....
Microsoft 365 Copilot Saves 1.3 Hours Per Document, Yet UK Department Finds No Net Productivity Lift
Staff at the UK's Department for Business and Trade (DBT) shaved over an hour off document drafting tasks with Microsoft 365 Copilot, but the department itself saw no measurable productivity...
Acer Swift Air 16: This 0.99kg 16-Inch Windows Laptop Is Lighter Than a 13-Inch MacBook Air
Acer just threw down a gauntlet at IFA 2025 in Berlin: a 16-inch laptop that weighs less than many 13-inch ultrabooks. The new Swift Air 16, in its lightest IPS configuration, tips the scales at just...
Faces in Conversation: Social Pair Memory Could Reshape Windows AI and UX
Human memory is not a passive archive—it’s an efficiency engine that prioritizes information likely to reduce future mental effort. A new set of experiments, summarized in a Psychology Today post...
Surface Laptop Studio 2 Hands-On: Microsoft's AI-Powered Convertible Challenges M2 Max MacBook Pro
Microsoft dropped a gauntlet at its September 2023 Surface event: a live Blender render that saw the new Surface Laptop Studio 2 finish in 37 seconds—nearly twice as fast as a MacBook Pro with M2...
H3C MegaBook Detachable Brings Fanless Intel Lunar Lake, 2.8K OLED, and Android Hybrid at $841
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Microsoft Pulls Surface Ad After It Showed iPadOS — Community Notes Flags Error
A routine social media post from Microsoft’s Surface account backfired spectacularly over the weekend when an image promoting the Surface Pro as “the ultimate research buddy” featured a screen...