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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...
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...
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...
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...
Windows 11 Insiders Gain AI-Powered Screenshot-to-Excel Conversion, Gated to Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs
Microsoft rolled out Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.5770 to the Dev Channel on August 29, packing a handful of productivity and accessibility upgrades that put AI-driven text actions and a...
KB5050094 Rescues USB Audio After Windows 11 24H2 Meltdown, But AI Features Demand Scrutiny
Microsoft’s January 28 preview cumulative update, KB5050094, finally restored audio to thousands of Windows 11 devices rendered mute by the 24H2 servicing stack, as the company simultaneously...
Microsoft Injects AI into File Explorer and Search in Massive Copilot Update for August 2025
Microsoft has taken its most aggressive step yet to weave generative AI into the fabric of Windows with the August 2025 feature drop for Microsoft 365 Copilot. The update lands not as a single...
Windows 11 25H2 Lands in Release Preview—IT Must Kill Legacy Scripts Before Upgrading
Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 version 25H2 to the Release Preview ring, marking the final validation stage before a broad production rollout. The upgrade arrives as a featherweight enablement...
Microsoft Beta Build 26120.5770 Adds Table-to-Excel AI and Braille Viewer
Windows 11 Insiders in the Beta Channel just got another serving of polish and productivity smarts with the release of Build 26120.5770 (KB5064089). This cumulative update, part of the 24H2 servicing...
Microsoft’s MAI-1 AI Model Goes Public After Training on 15,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs
Microsoft has thrown open the doors to public testing of MAI-1-preview, its first homegrown large language model trained entirely in-house on a staggering fleet of 15,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. The model...
No Microsoft ESU for Office 2016/2019: 0patch Offers Critical Micropatching Lifeline After 2025 Cutoff
Microsoft will permanently cut off security updates for Office 2016 and Office 2019 on October 14, 2025, and unlike Windows 10, there will be no paid Extended Security Updates (ESU) program to soften...