Microsoft is giving the Windows Insider program another makeover in the hope of making it less baffling. The Release Preview channel, used by Insiders to check out Windows builds that are close to ...

Microsoft’s aggressive AI push sparked backlash and the “microslop” trend. Now, the company is quietly scaling things back, shifting toward more subtle, useful AI across Windows and its apps.

Microsoft spent the past two years putting Copilot everywhere inside Windows 11. Now it is quietly taking some of it back.

Say goodbye to those annoying, unnecessary Copilot buttons ...

Microsoft trims the number of Insider channels and makes it easier to switch between beta and stable versions of Windows.

Click the three-dot menu > Settings, choose “AI innovations” in the sidebar, then control AI features from here. You won’t ...

Tech expert ThioJoe shows how to get Notepad and Store apps running in Windows Sandbox. 7 medications that don’t mix well with coffee, according to a pharmacist Your eyes are warning you, 5 silent ...

If you were eating in a restaurant and the head chef came out from the back multiple times to loudly proclaim that the kitchen was deeply committed to the quality of the food, would you find that ...

As TSA lines get longer and the situation at U.S. airports becomes more uncertain, there's a method for flyers hoping to fast-pass security wait times. In addition to keeping tabs on TSA wait-time ...

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Notepad has slowly gained a plethora of features that elevate it way beyond a basic text editor, now rivaling the likes of Apple Notes and Google Keep. But is Microsoft right to do this? When you ...

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown files. Image: Microsoft. Notepad has long been Windows’ quiet utility ...