Fabrice Canel announced he is retiring from Microsoft, effective July 1, after nearly 30 years. He wrote that he decided to take Microsoft's Voluntary Retirement Program after nearly three decades ...

Cybersecurity researchers found a way to exploit Microsoft Copilot to steal all sorts of personal and enterprise data—and they did it with just a click. SearchLink relies on three different ...

If you open the Start menu, start typing, and Windows 11 stuffs your results with Bing links and “Search the web” suggestions, this guide shows you how to stop it and keep local-only results. The fix ...

Something to look forward to: Searching local files should be one of the simplest and most basic features an operating system offers, but Windows 11 still makes the process unnecessarily awkward.

Microsoft is testing a Windows 11 setting that would let users turn off Bing web results and Microsoft Store suggestions in Search. The feature has not shipped publicly, but it could reduce reliance ...

Windows Search has been a sore spot for users going on years, and the frustration is easy to explain. At some point, Microsoft decided that searching for a local app or a buried folder was also a ...

Microsoft is about to let users turn off one of the most annoying features on Windows 11. Currently, whenever a PC user wants to perform a local search for files on their computer, Windows 11 also ...

A suite of web APIs built for AI agents that helps them scour the web faster for search results is already being used by Copilot, ChatGPT and "many others." Corinne Reichert (she/her) grew up in ...

Warning: Editing the Windows Registry incorrectly can cause system instability. Export a backup before making any changes — steps 2–3 below walk you through this. This method creates a ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft Office is finally letting you move the Copilot button after acknowledging that the new floating button was getting in the way of users' workflows ...

If you use Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, you have probably noticed a floating Copilot button hovering over your documents. It has been there since December 2025, sitting at the bottom-right corner of ...

At the Google I/O 2026 keynote, the tech giant revealed new agentic capabilities in Search, where users can create, customize, and manage multiple AI agents to stay updated on topics of interest. The ...