The Hot Take: Interesting features, we'll see if they pull me from eM Client which has all these now. Minus .pst files.
Outlook âNew,â which is based on Outlook.com, is far from a decent email client. While it has come a long way, the new Outlook doesnât feel as good as the Classic version, and it still lacks many features most users want. Microsoft now says itâs adding advanced support for Mail Merge, .PST, and a new single view for all accounts to the new Outlook app.
Outlook for Windows and web is getting the All accounts view in August 2026
I asked Microsoft for more details, and it told me that Outlook on Windows 11 (and 10) will get support for a feature called âAll accounts view,â similar to a Gmail feature that lets you see emails from all your accounts in a single inbox.
This feature is handy for those who manage their personal and professional inboxes in the Outlook app.
The all-accounts view is also called Unified Inbox, and when it rolls out to Outlook for Windows or web in August 2026, youâll be able to see emails from all your accounts in a single view. That means you donât have to switch back and forth between different inboxes, as long as you pay attention to the labels.
It also means you no longer have to merge mailboxes to see everything in one place.
Outlookâs All accounts view has advanced controls too, so itâs not just about viewing your emails or responding to them. Youâll be able to interact with emails as youâd do in their dedicated inbox. This means you can also delete, archive, move, or mark messages as read across all your mailboxes.
You donât have to repeat these actions in their respective mailboxes.
Windows Latest also found that the All accounts view will have Copilot integration too, and it could be a bit useful. For example, when youâve enabled All accounts view and use Copilot to search emails, the updated immersive search experience will surface content from the All accounts view.
At the moment, you cannot add a shared mailbox to the All accounts inbox, and itâs also not possible to use cross-account search. These features will be added to the All accounts inbox later this year.
As mentioned at the outset, Microsoft plans to ship the All accounts inbox to everyone in August 2026, but given the companyâs track record, it can also get delayed.
New Outlook is making it easier to access Favorite folders
New Outlook always had the ability to set folders as âFavorite,â but you canât switch between Favorite folders without opening the full folder pane.
With a new update, you can now view the favorite folders in a vertical list and access folders you use most with just a single click. Also, counts appear directly, so you can see which folder needs your attention.
âItâs a familiar experience for anyone who loved favorites in classic Outlook, now built right into the new Outlook,â Microsoft noted in a document.
This feature is stated to arrive in September, 2026.
More control over the unread count for the folder pane
Microsoft is testing a new toggle that gives you greater control over the unread count in your folder pane for each folder. Youâll be able to choose whether each folder should have the unread count visible in the folder pane. You can also choose to show the total item count instead, so itâs totally up to you.
Right now, Outlook can display the count for each folder, but it canât tell you the total count for all folders. To use the new feature, you just need to right-click any folder and choose between the total or unread count.
New Outlook is adding Mail Merge support
Microsoft is finally testing advanced Mail Merge support in New Outlook for Windows and the web after a long delay.
In an update spotted by Windows Latest, Microsoft said itâs improving Mail Merge so that each recipient will receive an individual email with only their address in the recipient field. Microsoft will also allow you to personalize emails by replacing fields with recipient-specific values, such as the personâs name.
Mail Merge will release in September 2026, while other features could begin rolling out earlier:
Youâll be able to import your calendars and even contacts using a .pst file (July 2026)
You can select non-consecutive dates in the calendarâs mini month using two new keyboard shortcuts, which are Shift+Click or CTRL+Click (July 2026)
Outlook will support basic conditional formatting rules (July 2026).
It is worth noting that the update timeline could always change, and Microsoft has planned several changes for Outlook in June/July. I expect most features to be available to everyone by August 2026.
What else do you want Microsoft to add to the new Outlook for Windows or the web? Let me know in the comments below.
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The Hot Take: I really feel we need an investigation into all these memory manufacturers as I feel they aren't allocating all this ram for Ai like they way they are. History just repeating its self I think.
Amid the unrelenting demand for AI infrastructure, SK Hynix, the worldâs largest supplier of HBM memory used in high-end GPUs, now expects to triple its wafer capacity. You'll just have to wait through two more US presidential elections and then some. All that capacity wonât come online until 2034, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won told Nikkei Asia in a recent interview. SK Hynixâs valuation has soared in recent months. The company is one of three major producers of NAND flash and DRAM memory, large quantities of which are required to support the burgeoning AI inference market. Samsung and Micron are the other two major players in this space. This demand has led to skyrocketing memory prices for consumer DRAM and SSDs, some of which have more than tripled in price compared to this time last year. SK Hynix and the other major memory makers meanwhile have seen their revenues explode. Chey's comments come just a week after SK Hynix said that it planned to double its production capacity within the next five years. âOur calculations show that our wafer capacity will double within five years. But honestly once all these facilities are built, it wonât just double, it will triple by around 2034,â Chey told Nikkei. SK is in the process of bringing four additional wafer fabs online, with the first phase reportedly on track to come online as early as 2027. The South Korean memory slinger had previously planned to ramp production of these facilities over the next two decades, but has pulled in its timeline in hopes of satiating AIâs memory addiction. âThere is currently no way to move faster than this,â Chey told the newswire. While much of this capacity will be built on SKâs home turf, the company is exploring its options for overseas manufacturing, with Japan being one of the potential destinations, with Chey calling it an âexcellentâ candidate due to its robust semiconductor supply chains. Unfortunately, the buildout is unlikely to drive down memory prices for consumers any time soon. As we previously reported, memory prices are not expected to peak until later this year at the earliest. Analysts warn that memory prices are more likely to plateau going into 2027 rather than plummeting like weâve seen in past DRAM and NAND boom-bust cycles. These boom-bust cycles have been a fact of life for commodity electronics manufacturers, like SK Hynix and Samsung, for years. Prices typically spike as inventories are drawn down and crater as new capacity is brought online. On the one hand, AI infrastructure demand has helped to stabilize this to some extent. On the other hand, the AI boom kicked off in 2022 at what was arguably the worst possible time. "This demand started in the Valley for the DRAM industry. That makes financially trying to build additional capacity really challenging," TechInsights analyst James Sanders told El Reg late last year. Business is once again booming for memory vendors presenting ample opportunities for labor disputes over competition as well as fab expansions. Unfortunately, thereâs no changing the fact that the fastest anyone can bring a leading edge memory fab online is about three years. ÂŽ
Longtime Slashdot reader Dotnaught shares a report from The Register: For the past 90 days, Microsoft has been quietly patching a firmware flaw in Surface devices that allowed the hardware to be bricked with a single packet, though only for those who have disabled Secure Core and Secure Boot. And the company's Copilot AI software inadvertently helped identify the faulty firmware.
According to Jack Darcy, a security researcher based in Australia, his instance of Microsoft Copilot stumbled across the bug after being asked to adjust the screen backlighting on a Surface device. The Copilot-conjured Python script ended up rendering the researcher's laptop inoperable by overwriting the embedded controller firmware. "Copilot autonomously created and executed four progressively aggressive Python scripts during a probe for backlight control values that sent raw SSAM ioctl commands (SSAM_CDEV_REQUEST = 0xC028A501) directly to the SAM microcontroller through the SAM software path," Darcy explained to The Register.
[...] "We appreciate the work of Jack Darcy and The Register for reporting this issue under a coordinated vulnerability disclosure," a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement. "Our investigation found that a deprecated UEFI interface could trigger a boot loop on some devices. To trigger this loop, the user must have administrator privileges and have already disabled the Secure Boot security feature. We have released updates to address the issue for most impacted devices."
That means managed devices are not at risk. But those using Linux, or Windows users who have disabled Secure Core and Secure Boot for gaming, or who use custom Windows drivers, or who have USB boot enabled, may still be vulnerable if their systems haven't received the update. We're uncertain about the range of Surface devices affected. Our source said it appears to be all of them (Surface Laptops 3-6, Surface Book 1-3) except for Surface Go models. ARM variants, however, have not been tested. The report notes that Microsoft is planning to move the Surface stack to a more secure architecture based on Rust code.
"Our most recent Surface for Business hardware features a major architectural shift in terms of improved reliability and security that spans our embedded controller, UEFI, but also some of our drivers," said David Abzarian, chief architect for Microsoft Surface. "We're investing in the most secure foundation for a PC by building our embedded controller firmware from the ground up in Rust (as part of leveraging and contributing to the Open Device Partnership (ODP)) in addition to a rewrite of the UEFI DXE Core in Rust; these projects are known as Secure EC and Project Patina respectively."
"We're also not only shipping some of our drivers written in Rust, but also helping co-develop the framework Windows Drivers in Rust (WDR) to help enable a broad set of partners in the Windows ecosystem to capitalize on these benefits. I will also note that all of these efforts are open-source promoting one of our key security principles around transparency."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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| June 15, 2026 | Apple, Hardware
The Hot Take: Mobile convergence is almost complete on the apple front.
Apple is without a doubt planning to launch a MacBook that finally incorporates touch support on its display, according to a prominent leaker on Weibo. The long overdue feature would bring parity to a litany of Windows laptops and Chromebooks that have used touchscreen displays for years, and would likely be a popular selling point on future
The Hot Take: ARM seems to be breaking out from everywhere. Fujitsu, Nvidia, AWS and ARM. Qualcomm seems to be playing catch up in the server market from the looks of it.
AWS has provided a first look at its next-generation Graviton5 processor, a custom server CPU developed by Annapurna Labs for deployment across the company's cloud computing platform and AI inference infrastructure.
Intel's Arc Pro GPU journey began with the first-generation Alchemist A-series products, and last year, the company introduced its Battlemage B-Series products. The first generation of products was aimed at the budget segment, offering good perf/$, and while the positioning continues with the Battlemage lineup, it looks like Intel is slightly moving towards a higher-end segment with its Arc Pro B60, B65, and B70 series. This move comes at a time when AI is the talk of the town, and local AI agents are becoming more and more popular. Also, Intel's recent workstation lineup, the Xeon 600 series, makes getting [âŚ]Read full article at https://wccftech.com/review/maxsun-intel-arc-pro-b70-32g-graphics-card-hands-on-impressions/
The Hot Take: Now we know why M$ is trying to squeeze out every ounce of performance in Windows 11.....
Microsoft says youâll be able to run Windows 11âs local Language Model APIs on non-Copilot+ PCs as long as you meet the new hardware requirement: an RTX 30+ GPU with 6GB of VRAM. Itâs a major change, as it means Copilot+ PCsâ advantages are getting âthin,â and I wouldnât be surprised if Microsoft drops the NPU requirement entirely in the future.
Copilot+ PCs officially debuted on June 18, 2024, and theyâve been driving sales for PC makers. However, itâs not because of the âCopilotâ or âNPUâ factor. Itâs largely because newer PCs are now sold as âCopilot+ PCs,â so even a regular laptop purchase gets counted as proof that AI PCs are taking off.
For a PC to meet the âCopilot+ PCâ requirement, it would need to have 16GB of RAM, an SSD, and at least a 40 TOPS NPU. For those unaware, an NPU (Neural Processing Unit) is a chip designed to run AI models, specializing in efficiency rather than raw power. On the other hand, a GPU is a heavy-duty processor designed for massive parallel tasks.
What is a âCopilot+ PC?â
Microsoft sold you Copilot+ PCs as the only way to run local AI, but that was neverâŚ
The Hot Take: Well look at that, it's very interesting that Microsoft is suddenly knocking out all these windows 11 issues. Kinda like they're afraid Linux will take their user base.
The Windows 11 June 2026 Patch Tuesday update, KB5094126 brings Low Latency Profile, Shared Audio, Multi-App Camera, and a handful of other noteworthy changes. Buried deeper in the changelog, without much fanfare, are two improvements to the Microsoft Store, one addressing a long-standing download speed problem and another fixing a frustrating gap in error reporting for managed devices.
Neither of these fixes will generate hype the way the CPU boost feature does. But for anyone who has watched a 500MB app update crawl through the Store for twenty minutes while the same file would download in under two minutes through a browser, at least one of them will feel this improvement was overdue.
This feature is being rolled out gradually, and will be available to everyone in the coming weeks.
Microsoft Store downloads were throttled for years, and the June update fixes it
For a significant portion of Windows 11 users, downloading apps and updates from the Microsoft Store has been noticeably slower than downloading the same files from almost any other source.
The Store would throttle to a fraction of the available connection speed, pause mid-download for no apparent reason, and occasionally get stuck in a pending stateâŚ
The Hot Take: Question is, do I go HPDT with Z990 or Consumer Z970? I guess I'll have to see the benches on if HPDT does anything for Gaming.
The Z990 PCH for Nova Lake motherboards is apparently 22% smaller than Z890, despite featuring a higher power maximum power draw of up to 14W. The leaked picture of the PCH shows a 11.15 x 6.5mm die and 25 x 24mm package, but we're unsure what motherboard it actually comes from.