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Native ARM64 Audacity Arrives for Windows 11, Leaving Plugin Users Waiting
Audacity 3.7.5 shipped this week, and for the first time, the popular open-source audio editor runs natively on Windows 11 ARM64 devices. No emulation required. The update closes a long-standing gap...
NTT DATA's New Microsoft Cloud Unit Racks Up Nearly 100 Agentic AI Deals in 90 Days
NTT DATA has launched a dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud, and within 90 days, its newly minted Agentic AI services have already drawn nearly 100 enterprise client...
Microsoft Copilot Supercharged: GPT-5 Now Free Across Windows, Mac, and Mobile
Microsoft is rolling out OpenAI's huge GPT-5 model to its entire Copilot ecosystem, making the latest generative AI capabilities available to Windows, Mac, and mobile users at no cost in many cases....
Microsoft Deploys GPT-5 to Power Copilot Across 365, GitHub, and Azure, Claiming First-Mover Advantage
Microsoft today became the first major technology company to fully deploy OpenAI's GPT-5 model across its product suite, embedding the advanced AI into Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI...
GPT-5 Lands Free in Copilot: What It Fixes for Windows 11, Edge, and Developers
Microsoft has begun rolling out OpenAI’s latest and most capable model, GPT-5, into its Copilot ecosystem—completely free of charge. The integration, announced today, covers consumer and...
Edge Copilot Mode: Microsoft’s Opt-In AI Browser Now Reads All Your Tabs at Once
Microsoft Edge version 138 introduces Copilot Mode, an opt-in feature that embeds generative AI directly into the browsing core—not as a sidebar tool, but as the default lens for search, page...
Microsoft Executive: Keyboards, Mice Will Be as Outdated as MS-DOS by 2030
Keyboards and mice will be as alien to future generations as MS-DOS is to Gen Z today, according to Microsoft’s corporate vice president of enterprise and security, David Weston. Weston’s stark...
Microsoft’s Windows 2030 Blueprint: AI Agents, Appliance-Like Security, and the End of ‘Mousing Around’
Microsoft has begun publicly charting a radical transformation for Windows, predicting that by 2030 the traditional keyboard-and-mouse interaction will feel as outdated as the MS-DOS command line...
SteamOS Comes to Lenovo Legion Go S: Handheld Gaming Performance Jumps Up to 75% Over Windows 11
Lenovo has fired a salvo across the bow of handheld PC gaming, releasing the Legion Go S—the first non-Valve device to ship with SteamOS—and delivering frame rate uplifts of up to 75% over its...
Microsoft Rolls Out Free Local GPT Model for Windows 11: gpt-oss-20b Explained
A quiet August rollout is reshaping what Windows 11 can do with artificial intelligence—and it’s happening entirely on your own hardware. Microsoft has begun distributing gpt-oss-20b, OpenAI’s...
Chicony Electronics Gears Up for 2H2025 Boom as Windows 10 Sunset Spurs PC Refresh
The end is near for Windows 10, and Taiwan’s Chicony Electronics is ready to turn a compulsory upgrade cycle into a major growth opportunity. With Microsoft pulling the plug on Windows 10 support...
Microsoft Gaming Copilot: Revolutionizing PC Gaming with AI Integration in Windows Game Bar
Microsoft’s much-lauded integration of AI into everyday Windows experiences has taken an ambitious leap forward with the debut of the Microsoft Gaming Copilot, an AI-driven assistant now embedded...