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Windows 10 Holdouts Get One-Year Lifeline: Consumer ESU Enrollment Details and Deadlines
The clock is ticking louder for Windows 10 users. Microsoft has set a hard deadline of October 14, 2025, for ordinary security patches, but it’s offering a narrowly scoped escape hatch: the...
Windows 11 Beta Build 26120.5770 Rolls Out One-Click Excel Table Conversion and Braille Viewer
Microsoft’s Beta Channel Insiders are waking up to a productivity upgrade that eliminates one of the most tedious chores in the modern workplace: manually retyping tables from screenshots or...
The Billion-User Mirage: Why Viral AI Chatbot Rankings Need a Second Look
{ "title": "The Billion-User Mirage: Why Viral AI Chatbot Rankings Need a Second Look", "content": "A recent roundup from Jagran Josh that named the “most-used AI chatbots in 2025” spread...
Windows 11 25H2 Hits Release Preview as Tiny Enablement Package—Most Updated PCs Already Have It
Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 version 25H2 into the Release Preview channel, and for most up-to-date PCs, the update is already there. The company shipped the underlying code over several months of...
Windows 11 Dev Channel 26220.5770 Packs Excel Table Conversion and Braille Viewer—With Strings Attached
Microsoft has dropped a fresh Dev Channel build for Windows 11 Insiders that puts a major productivity upgrade front and center: the ability to convert on-screen tables directly into Excel...
Vivaldi Rejects AI as Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic Push Cloud and Data Collection
A wave of product updates and policy shifts this week drew fresh battle lines in the long-running war between user privacy and the convenience of cloud-connected AI. Microsoft quietly made Word’s...
Supercharge Your Classic Outlook with 7 Copilot Tricks — and Avoid These Governance Pitfalls
Microsoft Copilot has quietly woven itself into the classic Outlook desktop client, the very same interface millions of enterprises cling to daily. No forced migration to a new app required. A recent...
Microsoft’s $75B Azure Run Rate Upends Software Peer Comparisons—and Valuation Multiples Still Miss the Mark
Microsoft’s fiscal 2025 disclosure that Azure and related cloud services have surged past $75 billion in annual revenue does more than mark a corporate milestone—it fundamentally rewrites the...
Windows 11 25H2 Hits Release Preview: What IT Admins Must Validate Before the eKB Rollout
Microsoft pushed new Windows 11 builds to all four Insider Preview channels on the same day—a rare coordinated flight that places Windows 11 version 25H2 into the Release Preview ring via an...
KB5064081 Preview Refreshes Windows 11 with Sane CPU Metrics, AI Recall Page, and File Explorer Smarts
Microsoft’s optional KB5064081 preview update for Windows 11 24H2 drops a long-overdue fix that finally makes Task Manager’s CPU readings match reality, while simultaneously rolling out...
Windows 11 Insider Builds Turn Screen Captures into Excel Tables and Surface Live Profile Cards
Microsoft’s latest Windows Insider builds—KB5064089 for the Beta channel and KB5064093 for the Dev channel—directly embed Microsoft 365 productivity into the desktop via Click to Do. The...
Snapdragon-Only: Windows 11’s Click to Do Ties Screen Tables to Excel, EEA Blocked
Microsoft is shipping a new AI-driven feature in the latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds that lets users grab any on-screen table—whether in a document, Teams call, or screenshot—and fling...