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Microsoft pushed two targeted Dynamic Updates over the weekend — KB5065378 and KB5064097 — aimed at hardening setup and recovery for Windows 11, version 24H2, and Windows Server 2025, refreshing the small but critical set of setup binaries and the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) used during feature updates, media-based installs, and recovery flows. Background / Overview Dynamic Updates are a focused servicing mechanism Microsoft uses to refresh only the files Setup and pre-boot recovery...

Microsoft has quietly pushed PC makers to stop treating USB Type‑C as merely a cosmetic port and to implement the platform-level hooks Windows needs to deliver consistent, actionable notifications when Type‑C connections misbehave — a move that aims to end years of “plug‑and‑pray” frustration but which hinges on firmware, ACPI, and driver work at the OEM level. Background USB Type‑C promised simplicity: a single reversible plug for power, data, and alternate‑mode protocols such as...

Microsoft’s August 2025 Copilot push is one of the broadest enterprise- and user-facing updates yet — expanding admin controls, folding GPT‑5 into day‑to‑day workflows, and embedding multimodal editing and semantic search across Windows, Edge, Teams, and the Microsoft 365 Copilot surfaces. Background / Overview Microsoft has been turning Copilot from a single chat interface into a platform: a set of managed agents, on‑device features for Copilot+ PCs, and a server‑side model router that...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11, version 25H2, into the Release Preview channel — a near‑final, enablement package release that IT teams and enthusiasts can validate now ahead of a broader public rollout later this year, with Microsoft identifying the preview as Build 26200.5074 and explicitly calling out the removal of legacy tooling such as PowerShell 2.0 and WMIC while adding new enterprise controls for inbox apps. Background / Overview Microsoft continues to refine Windows servicing with...

Microsoft has quietly published two targeted Windows 11 dynamic updates — KB5065378 (a Setup Dynamic Update) and KB5064097 (a Safe OS / WinRE Dynamic Update) — to refresh the setup binaries and the Windows Recovery Environment used during feature updates, media-based installs, and recovery flows. Background Dynamic Updates are a focused class of servicing packages Windows Setup pulls during an in-place upgrade or when booting from installation media; they let Microsoft refresh the small set...

Microsoft quietly published two targeted Dynamic Update packages for Windows 11, version 24H2 (and Windows Server 2025) — KB5065378 (a Setup Dynamic Update) and KB5064097 (a Safe OS / WinRE Dynamic Update) — on August 29, 2025, delivering refreshed setup binaries and a new Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) image to address installation and recovery reliability during feature updates and image deployments. Background / Overview Dynamic Updates are a class of servicing packages Windows...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11, version 25H2 (build 26200.5074) into the Release Preview channel, making a near‑final enablement package available to Insiders, IT pilots and commercial customers for validation ahead of a broader rollout later this year. Background / Overview Microsoft continues to deliver its annual Windows 11 feature update via a shared servicing branch and a small enablement package (eKB) that flips on features already staged in monthly cumulative updates. That model...

OpenAI’s release of a public Realtime playbook and the general-availability launch of the gpt-realtime model marks a clear turning point: voice-first, low-latency agents demand a different prompt engineering toolkit than text-only models, and OpenAI’s guide distills that into practical rules anyone building speech-to-speech experiences should adopt now. (openai.com, cookbook.openai.com) Background / Overview Voice agents are not “chat in audio” — they’re an interface that mixes timing...

A serious compatibility change in Windows 11’s recent updates has left many IT teams scrambling — and, according to recent reporting, a Microsoft staffer appears to have indicated the behavior may not be reverted. The issue touches DHCP, WinHTTP/WPAD behavior and a surprising dependency that can leave corporate laptops with their network adapters disabled if an environment has hardened or disabled the WinHTTP Auto-Proxy (WPAD) service. Here’s what happened, why it matters for offices, what...

Businesses have entered the critical phase between planning and full-scale implementation for the Windows 10 → Windows 11 transition, and the calendar is unforgiving: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025 — which means device readiness, compatibility validation and a staged deployment plan must now move from planning documents into operational action. Background / Overview Microsoft has set a firm cutoff: Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. After that date...

Samsung has quietly turned the living room into the next battleground for conversational AI by embedding Microsoft Copilot into its 2025 lineup of smart TVs and Smart Monitors, positioning Copilot as a voice‑first, visually rich assistant optimized for shared, couch‑side use. This integration — announced in late August 2025 — lands Copilot inside Tizen OS and Samsung’s new Vision AI framework, reachable from the Tizen home, Samsung Daily+, Click to Search, or simply by pressing the...

Microsoft has quietly but decisively moved from being a heavy consumer of third‑party AI models to a company shipping its own, first‑party foundation and voice models — and it has paired those models with an explicit expansion of internal, large‑scale training and inference infrastructure that leans heavily on Nvidia accelerators. (theverge.com, digitimes.com) Background / Overview Microsoft’s AI strategy has long blended deep partnerships with external model providers (notably OpenAI) with...

DistroWatch’s note that Windows anti‑virus tools regularly mark downloaded Linux ISO images as malicious has resurfaced a familiar — and often confusing — problem for newcomers: legitimate distribution images trigger threat alerts on Windows machines. The warnings are usually false positives, but because an ISO is a container of executable installer code and utilities, modern scanners can and do treat its contents as potentially dangerous. Background Windows users who download a Linux...

StatCounter’s latest tracking shows Windows 11 has climbed to roughly the halfway mark of Windows desktop installs — a milestone that reflects accelerating migration away from Windows 10 as Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline approaches. The headline numbers — what StatCounter actually reports Desktop Windows versions (StatCounter’s “Desktop Windows Version Market Share Worldwide”): for June 2025 StatCounter lists Windows 10 at about 48.9% and Windows 11 at about 47.8% —...

Samsung Electronics has quietly accelerated a multi-front push to turn hardware into recurring revenue and to harden the security posture of its growing roster of AI-enabled devices — an effort that now bundles a stepped-up, benefits-heavy AI Subscription Club (“Blue Pass” enhancements), a new partnership to surface Microsoft Copilot on 2025 TVs and smart monitors, and the first TÜV Nord IoT security certifications for its Bespoke AI appliances. Background — why this matters now Samsung is...

Microsoft’s product road map is quietly changing from feature road maps and sprint backlogs to prompt-first design and agent-led prototyping, a shift the company’s global chief product officer, Aparna Chennapragada, laid out in a recent interview describing how Microsoft’s enterprise AI agents are already shortening development cycles for Indian IT services firms. Background The last 24 months have seen a rapid pivot in how enterprise software is conceived. Rather than starting with a UI or...

Microsoft says the recent reports that a Windows 11 cumulative update “bricked” consumer SSDs are not supported by its telemetry and lab findings, and vendor testing so far has failed to reproduce a fleet‑level failure tied to the August servicing wave tracked as KB5063878. Background The story began in mid‑August 2025 when hobbyist test benches and a handful of field reports described a repeatable failure fingerprint: during sustained, large sequential writes to partially filled NVMe...

Windows 11’s long‑running Bluetooth audio compromise has finally been addressed: with the 24H2 servicing update Microsoft has added proper Bluetooth LE Audio support and a new “super wideband stereo” streaming mode that allows compatible headsets to play full stereo media while their microphones remain active. The change is more than a marketing label. It surfaces the LE Audio primitives—LC3 codec support, isochronous (ISO) channels and the Telephony and Media Audio Profile (TMAP)—in...

Samsung’s pitch at IFA 2025 is no longer a string of discrete product launches — it’s the outline of a single, connected platform that stretches from the living room TV to the kitchen fridge and the phone in your pocket, and it asks consumers to treat those devices as parts of one “AI Home.” Overview At its pre-IFA press program and product briefings in late August 2025, Samsung pulled together three threads it has been weaving for the past two years — advanced displays, on-device and cloud...

Microsoft has quietly pushed Windows 11, version 25H2 (Build 26200.5074) into the Release Preview channel — and unlike many headline OS releases, this one arrives as a lightweight enablement package (eKB) that flips features already staged on devices rather than replacing the whole operating-system image. Overview Windows 11, version 25H2 is delivered as an enablement package (eKB) that activates feature code Microsoft has been quietly shipping inside regular monthly cumulative updates. That...