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Microsoft's Semantic Search Hits Copilot: A Productivity Leap Gated by Hardware Exclusivity
Microsoft has started seeding a significant Copilot app update to Windows Insiders that brings semantic file search and a dashboard-style homepage—a move that could finally give Copilot+ PCs their...
Microsoft Testing Semantic File Search with On-Device AI on Copilot+ PCs for Insiders
Microsoft has begun rolling out a targeted update to the Copilot app for Windows Insiders, delivering semantic file search exclusively to Copilot+ PCs and introducing a redesigned Copilot homepage....
Microsoft's Copilot+ Insiders Gain Semantic Search and AI-Driven Homepage
Microsoft has started pushing a major update to its Copilot app on Windows, delivering conversational file search and a redesigned homepage to Insiders running Copilot+ PCs. The rollout, which began...
India's Enterprise PC Boom: Windows 10 End-of-Life and AI Laptops Spark Record Upgrades
A hard operating-system deadline and the rapid rise of on-device AI are fueling the biggest enterprise PC refresh cycle India has seen since the pandemic. Commercial shipments jumped 9.5%...
Microsoft Staggers Key Windows 11 AI Features in Release Preview, Settings Agent Expands to AMD and Intel
Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 build 26100.5061 to the Release Preview channel, packed with a curated set of feature enhancements that will reach general users in the weeks ahead. The update,...
Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs: Where On-Device AI Shines—and Why the Revolution Is Still on Hold
A year ago, Microsoft pitched Copilot+ PCs as a new class of computers where on-device NPUs (neural processing units) would run powerful AI models locally, delivering private, instant experiences...
Microsoft's Mu Model Brings On-Device AI Agent to Windows 11 Settings — But Only for Copilot+ PCs
The August 2025 Windows 11 update shipped a quiet but transformative feature: a natural-language agent inside the Settings app that can understand commands like "make my mouse pointer bigger" and...
From Myriad X to NPUs: How Windows ML and Intel\'s VPU Sparked the On-Device AI Revolution
Seven years ago, Microsoft and Intel forged an alliance that would quietly reshape where and how artificial intelligence runs on Windows. The partnership paired Windows Machine...
Smartphone's Peak? Record 2026 Decline Shifts Industry Focus to AI Wearables and Spatial Computing
Global smartphone shipments are set to plunge 13.9% in 2026, the steepest annual contraction in the industry’s history, according to new data from IDC. The forecast, a sharp downward revision from...
Microsoft's AI-First Windows Overhaul: Hudson Valley, Annual Updates, and NPU Requirements
Microsoft is preparing a sweeping AI-centric overhaul of Windows that returns the operating system to an annual release cadence, with a new platform codenamed Germanium paving the way for the Hudson...
Microsoft Ships Windows 365 Link for $349, Packs Intel N250 and 6-Year Update Promise
Microsoft’s first dedicated Cloud PC hardware, the Windows 365 Link, began shipping this month at $349, delivering a fanless mini-PC built solely to stream a Windows 365 desktop. Under the hood, an...
GPT-5’s Lukewarm Debut, Windows 11 Recall, and Coze Open Source: AI’s Most Disruptive Week Yet
OpenAI’s GPT‑5 arrived with a Death Star meme and claims of PhD‑level intelligence, but early adopters found a model that excelled at coding yet stumbled over basic reasoning—a launch that...