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Your Windows 11 upgrade not working? Try my 5 favorite troubleshooting tricks

If a Windows upgrade has ever gone sideways on you, you know how vague and unhelpful the error messages can be. Here are my go-to troubleshooting tricks when that happens.
7 months ago by Ed Bott in Windows 10
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How Microsoft's new security agents help businesses stay a step ahead of AI-enabled hackers

Copilot customers will find the agents embedded in their relevant security and management dashboards.
7 months ago by David Berlind in Security
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Microsoft's new recovery tools rebuild Windows when it glitches – here's how

The point-in-time restore feature will bring a Windows PC back to a previous state, while cloud rebuild will reinstall Windows from the cloud.
7 months ago by Lance Whitney in Windows 11
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Microsoft's new AI agents won't just help us code, now they'll decide what to code

From Agent 365 to Foundry's MCP tool catalog and new IQ services, Microsoft is moving beyond copilots and toward a future where software development becomes an automated assembly process.
7 months ago by David Gewirtz in Microsoft
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Microsoft's new AI agents create your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint projects now

They can generate documents, spreadsheets, and presentations from simple text prompts. Here's how to make the most of it.
7 months ago by Webb Wright in Artificial Intelligence
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How Microsoft's new plan for self-repairing data centers will transform IT roles

Microsoft is pushing enterprise computing toward self-running platforms where AI agents watch, diagnose, repair, and optimize systems continuously. Here's its vision and what it hopes to solve.
7 months ago by David Gewirtz in Artificial Intelligence
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Microsoft is packing more AI into Windows, ready or not - here's what's new

Microsoft is clearly excited about all this AI infiltrating Windows, but are its users as excited? Not quite. Here's why.
7 months ago by Lance Whitney in Artificial Intelligence
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Why Windows sucks and how to fix it, according to a former Microsoft engineer

The developer of Task Manager believes Windows has become a marketing tool, even as a Microsoft president boasts about Windows becoming a more agentic OS.
8 months ago by Lance Whitney in Windows
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First major Windows 10 ESU update is here - with 66 fixes (some critical)

Windows 10 users with extended support can now install their first major security update, rolling out with November's Patch Tuesday.
8 months ago by Lance Whitney in Windows 10
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How Microsoft finally makes good on its syncable passkey promise - and what's coming next

The phased rollout of Microsoft's platform authenticator strategy began last week for Edge on Windows 10 and 11. Here's what it does for you.
8 months ago by David Berlind in Security
How to screen record in Windows 10 or 11 with built-in tools

How to record your screen in Windows 10 or 11 - in just a few clicks

Your Windows PC already has everything you need to record your screen. Here's how to do it.
8 months ago by Lance Whitney in Creativity Software
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I activated a secret Super God Mode in Windows - and unlocked everything

Super God Mode collects every Windows app, feature, and setting, and it serves them up to you in a single series of folders. Here's how it works.
8 months ago by Lance Whitney in Windows
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Microsoft confirms a bug is hitting paid Windows 10 ESU users - here's what's happening

This problem has affected both consumer and business versions of Windows 10.
8 months ago by Lance Whitney in Windows 10
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Windows 11 users hit with bizarre Task Manager duplication bug - here's how to avoid it

Closing and reopening Task Manager now spawns extra copies, quickly eating up your system's memory and resources.
8 months ago by Lance Whitney in Windows 11
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Another European agency shifts off Big Tech, as digital sovereignty movement gains steam

European Union states are increasingly shifting toward European-based companies that offer open-source solutions. Here's why.
8 months ago by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Enterprise Software
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