Articles from 2026
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HMRC Rolls Out Microsoft Copilot: 28,000 Staff, Agentic AI, and Governance
HM Revenue and Customs is moving Microsoft Copilot from experiment to infrastructure, handing roughly 28,000 staff access to the AI assistant and preparing for more advanced, agentic-style features ac
Record Windows 11 System Audio in Audacity with WASAPI Loopback
Windows 11 can play almost anything, but recording what it plays remains oddly obscure for everyday users. The practical workaround is Audacity with Windows WASAPI loopback, a built-in Windows audio p
Windows 11 24H2/25H2 Modern Standby Gets Tougher: Less Battery Drain
Microsoft has quietly tightened one of Windows 11’s most controversial subsystems: Modern Standby, the sleep model that promised phone-like instant wake but too often delivered mystery battery drain,
Remove Microsoft Copilot App on Windows 11 25H2 with New Policy Update
Microsoft has quietly given Windows administrators a new way to reverse one of its most contentious AI deployment decisions: the Microsoft Copilot app can now be removed from managed Windows 11 device
Microsoft Copilot Last in Excel AI Showdown—Why Reliability Beats Integration
Microsoft Copilot Finished Last in an Excel AI Showdown — Here’s Why It Matters Artificial intelligence is becomi
Copilot Agentic Office Goes Live: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Now Edit by Itself
Microsoft has moved Copilot’s most consequential Office upgrade out of preview and into everyday use, making agentic capabilities generally available across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The shift turn
Windows K2: Microsoft’s Trust, Speed, and Start Menu Fix for Windows 11
Microsoft’s reported Windows K2 initiative sounds less like a flashy product codename and more like an admission that Windows 11’s next battle is about trust, speed, and everyday usability. According
Windows 11 Finally Separates Shutdown From Updates in the Power Menu
Windows 11 Is Finally Fixing One of Its Most Annoying Update Behaviors For years, Windows users have had a familiar complaint: you cli
Use Windows Miracast to Wirelessly Display Your Laptop on a TV
There’s a good chance your Windows laptop already has a built-in way to put its screen on your TV without buying a streaming stick, running an HDMI cable across the room, or installing yet another app
Windows 11 Hidden Modern Run (Win+R) Gets Slimmer—Still Not Widely Released
Meta description: Microsoft is still refining Windows 11’s hidden modern Run dialog, and its slimmer new design shows why legacy UI modernization remains tricky. [ATTACH type="thumbnail" align="right"
Enable DNS over HTTPS in Windows 11 for Encrypted DNS Privacy
Windows 11 has a built-in privacy switch that many users still overlook: DNS over HTTPS, the operating system-level feature that encrypts the domain lookups your PC makes before it loads websites, upd
Use Android With Windows: 4 Practical Tools (Phone Link, Scrcpy, Emulators, VM)
Use Android and Windows Together With These 4 Practical Tools Android and Windows may come from different ecosystems, but they are