Zac Bowden is a Senior Editor at Windows Central and has been with the site since 2016. His expertise is in exclusive coverage about Windows, Surface, and hardware. He's also an avid collector of rare Microsoft prototype devices, and was fortunate enough to daily drive both the fabled Lumia McLaren and Microsoft Band 3, along the Surface Mini and even Surface Neo. Keep in touch with him on Twitter and Threads!
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LIVE Join Daniel, Jez, and Zac on August 21 at 1PM ET for the LIVE Windows Central Podcast.

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Surface Vindication!? Apple's new iPhone Duo validates the multitasking and windowing vision Microsoft originally set out to achieve with Surface Duo. Here's how.

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Review Starting at $799, the latest ZenBook 14 from ASUS features Qualcomm's Snapdragon X SoC inside a premium chassis that looks and feels the part, along with a new OLED display and all day battery life.

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Apple As a Surface Duo fan, I can't believe Apple has just announced a folding phone called iPhone Duo. Are we really doing this?

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Windows 11 The latest Windows 11 preview builds are now rolling out to Insiders in the Experimental and Beta channels.

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Windows 11 Microsoft has established a baseline for high-end developer hardware with Project Zenith, complete with a specially configured version of Windows 11 that's ready to code.

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Windows 11 You'll soon be able to see the battery status of all your connected devices on the lock screen and Widgets Board.

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NVIDIA The first RTX Spark powered devices will come in two flavors, and will begin shipping in October 2026 from certain OEMs.

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Windows 11 Microsoft's kernel level security feature will be automatically enabled on eligible PCs starting next month.

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Windows 11 Microsoft has announced that Windows 11 version 26H2 is now available to test in the Windows Insider Release Preview Channel, which means general availability is imminent.

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Windows 11 Windows on Arm is gaining in popularity as more OEMs and silicon partners jump in to support it. Developers are also paying more attention, with over 7,000 apps now supported on Arm.

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Windows 11 Microsoft is gearing up to ship the next version of Windows 11 this fall. Here's everything you need to know about this next release.

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Podcast On this week's episode: Daniel and Zac break down the new Windows 11 context menu upgrades, as well as recap all the improvements that have been confirmed to be coming to the OS this year.

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Windows 11 If you've ever hated how Windows defaults to opening app windows in windowed mode, Microsoft is working on a toggle that will allow you to change that.

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Windows 11 Copilot's own search and chat experience for Windows 11 is being temporarily removed as the company responds to feedback and prioritizes new Copilot superapp.

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Windows 11 Windows 11's context menus are being overhauled with more customizability and a new decluttered layout that's faster to open.

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Windows 11 The Drag Tray, which appeared at the top of your screen whenever you grabbed a file in File Explorer, is being removed from the latest preview builds of Windows 11.

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Windows 11 We go hands-on with the new customizable context menu options coming soon to Windows 11 that make them faster and easier to use!

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Windows 11 The ability to move and resize the Taskbar, as well as customize the size and layout of the Start menu should begin rolling out imminently, if the latest Windows 11 preview builds are anything to go by.

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Podcast On this week's episode: Zac and Jez sit down to discuss the newly leaked images of a mysterious Windows Phone prototype from 2013, plus the latest from Windows and Xbox.

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Copilot We knew it was coming, and now it's official: Microsoft is beginning to rollout a new Copilot app that merges Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot under one experience.

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Windows 11 Windows 11 is getting more reliability and performance upgrades with its latest update, which will benefit PCs with low amounts of system memory.

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Surface Images floating around online have revealed a Windows Phone prototype from late 2013 that looks awfully like a pocketable Surface of some kind.
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