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Windows 10 end of support security became a live problem on October 14, 2025, when Microsoft stopped delivering security patches, quality updates, and technical support to standard Windows 10 users. Machines that haven't migrated since then receive no fixes for newly discovered vulnerabilities, and that exposure compounds with every month that passes.

Microsoft has shipped Outlook for Mac version 16.110, bringing a full Liquid Glass visual overhaul and native PST file import to the app. Both changes are live now through the Mac App Store. This Microsoft Outlook for Mac update marks two significant shifts at once: the app finally looks like it belongs on macOS, and it can now directly import email archives that previously required workarounds to access on Mac.

This guide walks through how to run a ChatGPT PC health check using only the system telemetry Windows already exposes to IT support. No personal files, documents, or passwords involved. Two paths, depending on how deep you need to go.

Copilot in Microsoft Edge can turn a web page, or a stack of open tabs, into a generated audio podcast. This guide walks through exactly how to do that: what you need before starting, how to write a prompt that produces useful output, and where the feature's limits are.

Microsoft's most revealing Microsoft Android hardware decision of the past decade had nothing to do with Windows. By choosing Android as the operating system for its dual-screen productivity device, Microsoft was making an explicit admission about what had killed Windows Phone and betting it could do something different this time. The bet worked technically. It failed commercially. And the gap between those two outcomes traces almost entirely to a single unresolved question: what, exactly, was...

Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra a few days ago, and while the device won't reach stores until later this year, its default wallpaper is already out. Someone extracted the high-resolution asset from pre-release materials, and Neowin is hosting both it and an unofficial light variant. To download the Surface Laptop Ultra wallpaper and apply it to your Windows 11 desktop, the whole process takes under a minute.

Microsoft has made two distinct bets on how Office work should start and progress. The first: users should generate documents, spreadsheets, and presentations from a chat interface before they ever open an app. The second: once inside Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, Copilot should edit files directly rather than queue up suggestions for a person to apply. Both are now live, moving Copilot from a sidebar assistant toward both file creation in chat and direct editing inside apps. Access is broad, but...

Microsoft today launched the Surface Laptop for Business with two features new to the Surface lineup: an integrated privacy screen on select 13.8-inch configurations, and an OS-level haptic touchpad tied to Windows 11 interactions. The Surface Laptop for Business privacy screen is the more immediately useful of the two. Neither feature is an AI story, and both carry a price that Windows Central described as "outrageously expensive."

The May 2026 Patch Tuesday update is failing to install on a subset of Windows 11 machines, stalling mid-reboot at roughly 35–36% completion and rolling back with error code 0x800f0922. Microsoft says the issue occurs on devices with limited free space on the EFI System Partition, especially when the ESP has 10 MB or less available; The Register covered Microsoft's disclosure on May 18, 2026. Both Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 are affected.

Microsoft is adding a Windows 11 automatic driver rollback feature that can replace a bad driver update without any action from the user or the hardware vendor. Called Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery, it works through the existing Windows Update pipeline and is currently being tested with hardware partners, with broad rollout targeted for September 2026 (The Verge, today; Digital Trends, today).

Microsoft this week pushed a significant update to Edge: the Microsoft Edge Copilot tabs update gives Copilot permission to read every tab you have open and pull answers from across all of them at once. Ask it to compare five product pages, surface a spec from an article you opened an hour ago, or condense a stack of research tabs it draws from your full open set without requiring you to paste or switch. That puts it in a different category than a sidebar chatbot waiting to be addressed.

Xbox Mobile Store Not Dead: Why It Still Hasn't Launched

Discord launched Nitro Rewards today, and the headline feature is free access to the base tier of Xbox Game Pass bundled into the existing $9.99/month Nitro subscription. The Discord Nitro Xbox Game Pass bundle covers more than 50 PC and Xbox games and 10 hours of monthly cloud streaming, TechCrunch reported at launch. For Nitro subscribers who don't already pay for Game Pass, that's a genuine addition. It's also a deliberately constrained one.

Windows 11 Dev Build Secure Boot Monitoring Lands in All Insider Channels

PowerShell 7.6 New Features, Breaking Changes, and Upgrade Guide

Google has updated Quick Share for Windows with a visual overhaul that brings the desktop app's interface in line with the Android version. The redesign is cosmetic. The underlying transfer functionality is unchanged.

Gaming on Windows has always felt like a compromise—powerful, yes, but never quite as seamless as dedicated gaming consoles. Microsoft's upcoming "Xbox mode" for Windows 11 promises to change that fundamental reality, potentially transforming how millions of PC gamers interact with their systems. This isn't just another Windows update; it's a strategic pivot that could reshape the entire PC gaming landscape.

There are two completely different taskbar indicator problems in Windows 11, and most troubleshooting guides treat them as one. This guide helps you identify whether the underline or dot beneath a taskbar icon is normal Windows behavior, a preference you can't change, or the documented 24H2 bug that causes the underline to persist after an app has fully closed and tells you exactly what to do in each case. Start with the diagnosis step.