PhantomOfEarth tweeted on the X platform on April 11, revealing that Microsoft is changing the “tug-of-war” situation regarding Windows updates in the latest preview version of Windows 11, planning to allow users to choose the specific date for resuming updates. Tech media outlet WinAero points out that installing Windows updates has long been a game…
Microsoft’s new Xbox head, Asha Sharma, has signaled that the pricing of the Xbox Game Pass (XGP) subscription service is about to be adjusted. In an internal memo to Xbox employees obtained by tech media The Verge, Sharma admitted that “Game Pass is already too expensive for players” and that Microsoft needs to “create a…
Microsoft confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday that Outlook Lite will be discontinued on May 26th. Launched in 2022, this lightweight version of the regular Outlook app was designed for Android phones with limited storage and regions with slow internet speeds. It was noted that the app was already slated for removal from the store; Microsoft…
Microsoft 0n Friday published a blog post inviting members of the Windows Insider program on the Canary channel to test the latest preview builds for Windows 11, build numbers 29565.1000 and 28020.1812. The existing 28000 series (such as Build 28020.1812) will continue to focus on the 26H2 feature preview, suitable for most testers; while the…
Tech media NeoWin published a blog post yesterday (April 8) reporting that Microsoft plans to upgrade the PowerToys tool and add a WinPos module to address the inconvenience of traditional window management operations in Windows 10 and Windows 11. According to a blog post cited by Free Tech News, while Windows 11 boasts modern window…
Microsoft’s Bing team published a blog post on April 7 announcing the open-source release of Harrier AI, an industry-leading text embedding model series, to meet the high standards of information processing required by modern AI intelligent agent systems. This model ranked first in the multilingual MTEB-v2 benchmark. Note: Embedding models are a technique that converts…
Microsoft and Samsung jointly announced that due to a serious system problem with the latest version of the Samsung Galaxy Connect phone management app on Windows 11, the app has been temporarily removed from the Microsoft Store. According to a report from IT Home, the affected devices mainly include several Samsung laptop models such as…
Nearly six months have passed since the large-scale rollout of the Windows 11 25H2 version. NeoWin discovered today that Microsoft has quietly released a dedicated upgrade tool for 25H2 on its official website, designed to help users upgrade to the system more easily. The upgrade tool, named ” Windows 11 Installation Assistant 25H2, ” is now available…
AppleInsider published a blog post yesterday (March 10) reporting that hackers have recently launched a new attack method called “ClickFix,” which tricks Mac users into installing malware through a fake human verification page. According to the blog post, victims who visit compromised websites or click on malicious ads are shown a fake CAPTCHA page. Unlike regular…
According to a post on Microsoft’s official developer community blog today, Microsoft has released a new model, Phi-4-Reasoning-Vision-15B, which is a visual reasoning model. It combines high-resolution visual perception with selective, task-aware reasoning, making it the first small language model (SLM) in the Phi-4 series to simultaneously achieve “seeing clearly” and “thinking deeply”. Traditional vision…
