Category: windows
Copilot AI’s mission to infiltrate the Windows 11 desktop appears to have advanced another step
Copilot is creeping into another corner of the Windows 11 interface, it seems, with the AI assistant seen in the context menu of File Explorer. This is still in test builds of Windows 11, mind, and not officially either. Windows Latest flagged up the change, which was first noticed by…
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Windows 11 update is reportedly causing some PCs to crash or run very sluggishly
Windows 11’s cumulative update for this month is causing serious problems in some reported cases. This is KB5035853 for Windows 11 23H2 and 22H2 which started rolling out earlier this week carrying some useful new features. That includes being able to use the Snipping Tool to edit photos from your…
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Windows 11 speech recognition feature gets ditched in September 2024 – but only because there’s something better
Windows 11’s voice functionality is being fully switched over to the new Voice Access feature later this year, and we now have a date for when the old system – Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) – will be officially ditched from the OS. The date for the replacement of WSR by…
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Fed up with OneDrive in Windows 11? Microsoft clarifies that you can easily remove the cloud storage app
Windows 11 users can uninstall OneDrive – in case you weren’t aware of that – and Microsoft has made this clearer with a change to a support document. Neowin picked up on this alteration Microsoft made to its guide on how to ‘Turn off, disable, or uninstall OneDrive’ which is…
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Windows 11 could soon deliver updates that don’t need a reboot
Windows 11 could soon run updates without rebooting, if the rumor mill is right – and there’s already evidence this is the path Microsoft is taking in a preview build. This comes from a regular source of Microsoft-related leaks, namely Zac Bowden of Windows Central, who first of all spotted…
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Microsoft finally teaches Copilot AI some new tricks – but is this enough to stop Windows 11 users getting impatient?
Windows 11 just received improvements in testing to make its Copilot AI more useful with implementing changes in the actual OS environment – in other words, the features that we’re all waiting for. Copilot has a pretty limited repertoire in terms of what the AI can do for manipulating Windows…
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