Microsoft is rolling out yet another update to Notepad for Windows 11 Insiders that adds table support and faster AI-generated responses, continuing a transformation of the once-minimal text editor that has drawn sustained criticism from users who preferred its original simplicity. The update, version 11.2510.6.0, lets users insert tables via a formatting toolbar or Markdown syntax and enables streaming responses for the app's Write, Rewrite, and Summarize AI features.

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Touché par la pénurie mondiale de RAM, Microsoft prévoirait une hausse des tarifs de la Xbox Series X et S. Une situation qui pourrait bien finir par s'étendre à l'ensemble des constructeurs, ainsi qu'à certains segments du marché de la tech.

Microsoft has acknowledged in a support article that major Windows 11 core features including the Start Menu, Taskbar, File Explorer and System Settings break after applying monthly cumulative updates released on or after July 2025. The problems stem from XAML component issues that affect updates beginning with July's Patch Tuesday release (KB5062553). The failures occur during first-time user logins after cumulative updates are applied and on non-persistent OS installations like virtual desktop infrastructure setups. Microsoft lists Explorer.exe crashes, shellhost.exe crashes, StartMenuExperienceHost failures and System Settings that silently refuse to launch among the symptoms. The company provided PowerShell commands and batch scripts as temporary workarounds that re-register the affected packages. Both Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 share the same codebase and are affected. Microsoft said it is working on a fix but did not provide a timeline.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft is upgrading its Advanced Paste tool in PowerToys for Windows 11, allowing you to use an on-device AI model to power some of its features. With the 0.96 update, you can route requests through Microsoft's Foundry Local tool or the open-source Ollama, both of which run AI models on your device's neural processing unit (NPU) instead of connecting to the cloud. That means you won't need to purchase API credits to perform certain actions, like having AI translate or summarize the text copied to your clipboard. Plus, you can keep your data on your device.

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Dégradation de la qualité de Windows : même Microsoft admet qu'il y a des problèmes.

EDIT: Et encore... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-out-of-band-update-fixes-windows-11-hotpatch-install-loop/
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A Microsoft executive is questioning why more people aren't impressed with AI, a week after the company touted the evolution of Windows into an "agentic OS," which immediately triggered backlash. "Jeez there so many cynics! It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming," tweeted Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO for Microsoft's AI group. Suleyman added that he grew up playing the old-school 2D Snake game on a Nokia phone. "The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me," he wrote.

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Thunderbird va avoir un support natif de cette monstruosité qu'est Microsoft Exchange.
Cela évitera de passer par la passerelle IMAP toute pourrie de Microsoft.

"Microsoft : Nous réinventons la roue depuis 1980.“
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Le 17 novembre 2025, Microsoft Azure a annoncé avoir subi une attaque DDoS d’une ampleur phénoménale, atteignant 15,72 Tbit par seconde. Cette opération malveillante, survenue quelques semaines plus tôt, serait l’œuvre d’un vaste réseau d’ordinateurs et d’appareils infectés nommé Aisuru.

Après avoir intégré Copilot à un menu latéral, Microsoft fait le pari de placer l'IA au cœur de l'écosystème Windows en l'ajoutant à la barre de tâches. En plus de Copilot, il sera possible d'utiliser des outils tiers.

Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant in Windows 11 fails to replicate the capabilities shown in the company's TV advertisements. The Verge tested Copilot Vision over a week using the same prompts featured in ads airing during NFL games. When asked to identify a HyperX QuadCast 2S microphone visible in a YouTube video -- a task successfully completed in Microsoft's ad -- Copilot gave multiple incorrect answers. The assistant identified the microphone as a first-generation HyperX QuadCast, then as a Shure SM7b on two other occasions. Copilot couldn't identify the Saturn V rocket from a PowerPoint presentation despite the words "Saturn V" appearing on screen. When asked about a cave image from Microsoft's ad, Copilot gave inconsistent responses. About a third of the time it provided directions to find the photo in File Explorer. On two occasions it explained how to launch Google Chrome. Four times it offered advice about booking flights to Belize. The cave is Rio Secreto in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Microsoft spokesperson Blake Manfre said "Copilot Actions on Windows, which can take actions on local files, is not yet available." He described it as "an opt-in experimental feature that will be coming soon to Windows Insiders in Copilot Labs, starting with a narrow set of use cases while we optimize model performance and learn." Copilot cannot toggle basic Windows settings like dark mode. When asked to analyze a benchmark table in Google Sheets, it "constantly misread clear-as-day scores both in the spreadsheet and in the on-page review."

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Microsoft has rolled out a new preview build for Windows 11 Insiders in the Dev and Beta Channel this week that introduces a new toggle called 'experimental agentic features' that can be enabled or disabled in the Windows Settings app. From a report: According to Microsoft, this new toggle is designed to "allow agents to use new Windows agentic features." The company says the feature will work with AI-powered apps, which "help you automate everyday tasks -- like organizing files, scheduling meetings, or sending emails -- so you can spend less time on busy work and more time on what matters most. One powerful way apps are implementing AI today is by interacting with your apps and your files, using vision and advanced reasoning to click, type and scroll like a human would." The setting in the Windows Setting says "When this setting is on, agents can use Windows agentic features." Features such as the recently announced Copilot Actions for Windows feature are going to take advantage of this new experimental agentic feature capability.

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Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI-rival Anthropic announced strategic partnerships today that will scale Claude on Microsoft Azure and bring up to $15 billion in new investment to the AI startup. Anthropic committed to purchase $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and contract additional capacity up to one gigawatt. Nvidia and Microsoft -- the largest investor in OpenAI -- committed to invest up to $10 billion and up to $5 billion respectively in Anthropic.

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Microsoft a annoncé, le 13 novembre 2025, le déploiement d'une nouvelle fonctionnalité qui bloquera automatiquement les captures d'écran et les enregistrements pendant les réunions. Un outil attendu depuis plusieurs mois et qui répond à un besoin concret dans de nombreuses entreprises.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft employs various schemes to stop Edge users from switching to Chrome, and the latest includes financial rewards for sticking with the browser. As spotted by Windows Latest, select users who search on Bing within Microsoft Edge for a link to download Google Chrome are now shown an offer to stay with the browser. It gives users 1,300 Microsoft Rewards points, which can be redeemed for gift cards (examples include Amazon, Roblox, and Spotify) or donated to one of over 2 million nonprofits.

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Windows 11 a encore de beaux jours devant lui avant de partir à la retraite. Mais certaines sous-versions de l'OS expirent à mesure que le temps passe. C'est le cas pour une branche qui va être délaissée après le 11 novembre. Il est temps de mettre à jour.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft, eager to boost downloads of its Copilot chatbot, has recruited some of the most popular influencers in America to push a message to young consumers that might be summed up as: Our AI assistant is as cool as ChatGPT. Microsoft could use the help. The company recently said its family of Copilot assistants attracts 150 million active users each month. But OpenAI's ChatGPT claims 800 million weekly active users, and Google's Gemini boasts 650 million a month. Microsoft has an edge with corporate customers, thanks to a long history of selling them software and cloud services. But it has struggled to crack the consumer market -- especially people under 30. "We're a challenger brand in this area, and we're kind of up and coming," Consumer Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi said in an interview. Mehdi hopes to persuade key influencers to make Copilot their chatbot of choice and then use their popularity to market the assistant to their millions of followers. He says Microsoft is already getting more bang for the buck with influencers than with traditional media, but didn't provide any metrics. [...] Using non-techies as spokespeople is meant to reinforce Microsoft's campaign to sell its chatbot as a life coach for everyone. Or as Consumer AI chief Mustafa Suleyman wrote in a recent essay, an AI companion that "helps you think, plan and dream."

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Je ne suis pas le seul à penser qu'il y a de plus en plus de problèmes chez Microsoft : Des malfaçons dans Azure aux mises à jour Windows qui posent de plus en plus de soucis (et ça, c'est sans mentionner les problèmes de pillage de la vie privée, d'IA forcée partout et du délai de livraison des mises à jour de sécurité particulièrment problématique (https://sebsauvage.net/links/?RZxk-Q)).

Vous voulez un OS stable pour votre business, où tout est proprement testé ?
J'ai fortement le sentiment qu'une Debian est largement plus fiable et stable qu'un Windows pour de la prod, n'est-ce pas ?
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Le mois de novembre 2025 est marqué par le lancement de Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, auquel pourront jouer certains abonnés du Xbox Game Pass. On fait le point sur la sélection.

Windows 11 a encore de beaux jours devant lui avant de partir à la retraite. Mais certaines sous-versions de l'OS expirent à mesure que le temps passe. C'est le cas pour une branche qui va être délaissée très bientôt. Il est temps de mettre à jour.