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Microsoft to Automatically Install Copilot App on All Windows 365 PCs in October, EEA Excluded
Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices running the M365 desktop apps starting early October 2025, a move that thrusts the company’s AI...
Firefox 143 Update Turns Favorite Sites into Windows Taskbar Apps, Adds Copilot
Mozilla has shipped Firefox 143 with a feature Windows users have requested for years: the ability to pin any website to the taskbar as a standalone web app. The update—rolling out now through the...
Microsoft Copilot Readies Dedicated Search Mode with Enhanced Citations, On-Device Shopping, and Google Drive Access
Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot is expanding well beyond casual conversation, and test-build evidence now reveals a trio of major upgrades in the pipeline: a dedicated Search Mode that puts...
Firefox 143 Sneaks Microsoft Copilot into the Sidebar While Tightening Privacy and Adding Pinned Apps
Firefox 143 has arrived, and it marks the first time Mozilla has woven Microsoft’s Copilot directly into its browser interface. The update places an AI chat sidebar at users’ fingertips, allowing...
No-Reboot Fix: Microsoft KB5066360 Hotpatch Resolves Hyper-V PSDirect Security Hole
Microsoft has released KB5066360, a hotpatch that corrects a critical handshake regression in PowerShell Direct without requiring a system restart. The update, which lands on eligible Windows Server...
Windows 10 and 11’s Crucial System Restore Is Often Disabled — Here’s How to Enable It in Under a Minute
Windows 10 and 11 ship with a powerful rollback feature that can undo system-wrecking changes in minutes—but Microsoft often leaves it switched off. System Restore, officially called System...
Windows Mobile Plans App Will Vanish in 2026 as Microsoft Hands eSIM Sales to Carriers
Microsoft has set a hard retirement date for its built-in Mobile Plans app: February 27, 2026. After that, the small storefront that lets cellular‑capable Windows laptops and tablets buy data plans...
LatencyMon Exposes the Hidden Kernel Interrupts Causing Windows Micro-Stutters
A free tool built for audio engineers has become the unlikely detective for system-wide Windows stutters. LatencyMon, a lightweight utility from Resplendence Software, isolates the sub-millisecond...
Silent Copilot Push: Microsoft’s 365 AI App Auto-Installs on Windows, But You Can Block It
Microsoft plans to quietly push the Microsoft 365 Copilot app onto Windows devices starting in the fall of 2025—a move that will affect millions of business and consumer machines, but one that...
Windows 10’s October 2025 Deadline Is Firm: Here Are the Only 5 Ways to Stay Secure
Windows 10 will receive its final free security patches on October 14, 2025. When that date passes, any PC still running the operating system without a paid extension or a workaround will be...
AMD Driver Installs Still Risky: Why You Must Pause Windows Update and Skip Factory Reset
A potentially devastating bug in AMD’s graphics driver installer can render Windows unbootable when the Factory Reset option is checked during a simultaneous Windows Update, AMD has confirmed. The...
Microsoft Bets on Specialized Agents with MAI-1 and Voice AI, Aiming to Slash Copilot Costs
Microsoft’s MAI initiative is no mere skunkworks project. In late summer 2025, the company began surfacing two homegrown models—a consumer-focused foundation language model and a high-speed...