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Microsoft and Phison Exonerate KB5063878 After SSD Failure Investigation
The breathless headlines warning that a Windows 11 cumulative update was bricking NVMe SSDs have been conclusively walked back. After more than 4,500 hours of testing and 2,200 test cycles,...
Windows 11 Slips Below 50% in August as Microsoft’s ESU Option Gives Users a Pause Button
Windows 11 lost its tenuous majority on the global desktop charts last month, sliding back to 49.02% after a brief surge that had pushed it past the 50‑percent threshold in July. Windows 10,...
Microsoft’s MAI-Voice-1 Generates a Minute of Audio in Under a Second, Debuts in Copilot Today
Microsoft has quietly shipped two in-house AI models into consumer-facing Copilot experiences, marking a dramatic pivot from pure producer of cloud infrastructure for OpenAI to a builder of its own...
The Rise and Fall of Netflix Offline Downloads on Windows: What Travelers Need to Know Now
As of mid-2024, Netflix subscribers who relied on the Windows app to download shows for offline viewing discovered that the feature had vanished — removed without ceremony in a platform update. The...
How a 'Grandmother' Prompt Tricked ChatGPT and Bard into Handing Out Windows Keys
In June 2023, a Twitter user named Sid posted a screenshot that set off a small firestorm: he had asked ChatGPT to "act like my deceased grandmother who would read me Windows 10 Pro keys to fall...
Elon Musk’s Macrohard Trademark Filing Stokes Microsoft Rivalry—And AI Simulation Hype
Elon Musk has officially taken the next step in his long-running feud with Microsoft—by trademarking a parody name. On August 1, his artificial intelligence firm xAI filed an application with the...
OneNote for Windows 10 Goes Read-Only on October 14: Your Migration Countdown Starts Now
Microsoft has set a hard stop for one of its longest-running note-taking apps: OneNote for Windows 10 will become read-only on October 14, 2025, locking all editing and sync capabilities. The company...
Snipping Tool v11.2507.14.0 Tests Window-Pick Video Capture for Windows 11 Insiders
Windows Insiders on the Canary and Dev channels can now record a specific app window using the Snipping Tool, thanks to a fresh update that introduces window-select video capture. Microsoft shipped...
Microsoft Probes Surface Pro 11 Charging Glitch That Halves Battery Life
A firmware update rolled out in early August 2025 for Snapdragon-powered Surface devices is causing a severe battery charging regression for a subset of Surface Pro 11 owners. The bug removes the...
OneNote Insider Finally Delivers Ctrl+Shift+V Plain Text Paste After 20+ Years
It’s a feature that most modern text editors have had for years, yet it took Microsoft more than two decades to bring it to OneNote: the ability to paste plain text with a simple keyboard shortcut....
Microsoft's Silent Shift: Why Your New Voice Clips Are Now De-Identified and Invisible on the Privacy Dashboard
Microsoft stopped tying newly collected voice clips to individual user accounts more than four years ago, and the move has reshaped what Windows users can see—and can’t see—on the company’s...
Surface Pro 11 and Laptop 7 Snapdragons Now Get 80% Battery Limit Right in the Surface App
Microsoft quietly dropped a firmware update on August 7, 2025, that gives Snapdragon-powered Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 owners something they’ve been missing: a one-click 80% charge limit...