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The NFL and Microsoft have dramatically expanded a partnership that has already reshaped sideline technology, upgrading the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot-powered Surface devices, integrating Azure AI services into scouting and operations workflows, and rolling out new tools designed to deliver real-time, operations-enhancing insights to coaches, scouts, and game-day staff. Background The collaboration between the National Football League and Microsoft is long-running, dating...

Atturra’s announcement that it has secured the Microsoft Private Cloud Solution Partner designation marks a significant addition to its already deep Microsoft credentials and positions the ASX‑listed services firm at the forefront of sovereign, hybrid and on‑premises Microsoft delivery in Australia. The company says it is the first Microsoft partner in Australia to attain this new designation, highlighting specialist skilling in Windows Server hybrid administration and Azure database...

OpenAI’s highly anticipated corporate restructuring has been pushed off the immediate calendar as last‑ditch negotiations with Microsoft over API access, intellectual property (IP) rights and a disputed “AGI clause” remain unresolved, forcing a delay that could push the overhaul into next year and put portions of large investor commitments at risk. Background OpenAI’s restructuring is not a paperwork exercise: it is the legal and commercial re‑engineering that would let outside investors...

Microsoft’s last-minute lifeline for Windows 10 users has arrived — but it’s a patchwork fix, and the rollout has been messy enough to deserve scrutiny from security professionals, privacy advocates, and anyone still running older PCs. The Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10 is now shipping through Windows Update as a staged “Enroll now” experience, Microsoft says it will be available to all eligible devices before the operating system’s official end-of-support date on...

Phison has confirmed it is investigating reports that a mid‑August Windows 11 cumulative update can trigger SSD instability — drives disappearing from Windows during sustained, heavy writes — and vendors, independent testers and Microsoft are coordinating forensic work while users are warned to prioritize backups and avoid large sequential writes until firmware or OS mitigations appear. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped a combined Servicing Stack Update (SSU) and Latest Cumulative...

Microsoft is rolling generative AI into Phone Link on Windows 11 so the app can suggest three ready-made SMS replies when you get a text — a convenience feature that’s enabled by default, uses a cloud-based “intelligent suggestion model,” and uploads recent conversation text to Microsoft services to generate and monitor those suggestions. Background Microsoft announced the new Suggested replies capability for the Phone Link app in a Windows Insider Canary build post, describing it as an...

Phison's latest public posture on the Windows 11 SSD scare shifts the narrative from an alleged vendor-level "bricking" spree to a coordinated investigation, but the episode leaves important questions about testing transparency, firmware distribution, and how quickly platform vendors communicate risk to users and enterprise administrators. Background In mid‑August 2025 Microsoft shipped the combined servicing stack + cumulative update for Windows 11 (commonly tracked as KB5063878, OS Build...

Microsoft’s latest move to automate and AI‑assist Windows Server 2025 upgrades promises to cut the friction and risk that have long dogged enterprise patch cycles, but the effort is also a reminder that automation without clear metadata and robust controls can make things worse as quickly as it makes them easier. ds an ambitious blend of hybrid cloud integration, hardened security primitives, and operational tooling intended to modernize how enterprises patch and upgrade their...

For more than a decade, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the engine that transformed Amazon from an online retailer into one of the world’s most valuable and strategically diversified technology companies—and yet, the cloud computing race is no longer a straight sprint for raw scale. Recent earnings and market-data prints show AWS still the clear leader by revenue and footprint, but a mounting gap in growth momentum, coupled with an industry redefining itself around generative AI and...

Microsoft’s latest update to Copilot for Windows 11 pushes the assistant farther into the OS — adding third‑party extensions that let Copilot act on your behalf across the web, new “settings” skills that can change system options for you, and AI enhancements in core apps like Photos and Clipchamp — while Microsoft continues to monetize advanced access with the Copilot Pro $20/month plan. Background Microsoft introduced Copilot as a deeply integrated AI experience for Windows, and the company...

Microsoft’s August preview updates quietly deliver a major new enterprise capability: Windows Backup for Organizations has been promoted into Release Preview and is being positioned as the supported, tenant‑gated path for backing up and restoring user settings and Microsoft Store app lists in managed environments — while Microsoft also ships targeted reliability fixes for File Explorer, SMB over QUIC, ReFS, Family Safety, and device management policies in KB5064080 (Windows 11) and KB5063842...

Microsoft's latest Windows 11 update brings a long‑awaited fix for muffled Bluetooth headset audio: support for Bluetooth LE Audio's super‑wideband stereo, letting game audio remain high‑fidelity while voice chat or calls run at a much higher sample rate than the old Hands‑Free Profile allowed. This change replaces the decades‑old compromise where activating a headset microphone forced a drop to low‑quality, telephone‑grade voice; with LE Audio and the LC3 codec, Windows 11 can now sustain...

Microsoft has quietly shifted a major piece of device provisioning from a manual follow-up task for end users to an automated, admin‑controlled step in setup — beginning with the September 2025 Windows security update, eligible Windows 11 devices can check for and install quality updates during the Out of Box Experience (OOBE) so that devices arrive to users already patched and compliant. Background Windows updates have long been one of IT’s perennial headaches: devices shipped from vendors...

Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 deadline for Windows 10 support is no longer a distant calendar entry — it is the hinge point of a transition that will reshape how millions of consumers and businesses think about desktop operating systems, security, and the economics of software as a service. Microsoft will stop delivering routine feature, quality, and security updates for most Windows 10 editions on that date, but the company has layered a short‑term safety net — the Windows 10 Consumer...

Parallels Desktop 26 for Mac arrived as a significant, broadly compatible virtualization update — offering full support for Apple’s forthcoming macOS Tahoe and Microsoft’s Windows 11 25H2, along with measured performance improvements and a suite of new enterprise management features that aim to simplify large-scale Mac deployments. Background Parallels has long sat at the center of cross-platform workflows on macOS, providing the ability to run Windows, Linux, and other operating systems...

Microsoft’s new VibeVoice marks a striking shift in what open-source text-to-speech can do: from short, single-voice clips to hour‑scale, multi‑speaker spoken audio that resembles a produced podcast — and it’s available now for researchers and tinkerers to try. The framework packages a compact LLM planner with novel continuous tokenizers and a diffusion‑based acoustic decoder to synthesize up to 90 minutes of coherent speech with up to four distinct speakers, including English and Mandarin...

OpenAI’s planned corporate overhaul — a pivotal step toward an eventual IPO and deeper outside investment — is now widely reported to be slipping into next year as fraught negotiations with its largest strategic partner, Microsoft, remain unresolved. What began as a calendar-year push to rework governance, investor rights, and commercial terms has become a delicate tug-of-war over cloud exclusivity, intellectual property access, and the controversial “AGI clause.” The delay puts a material...

The 2025 desktop gaming market has matured into a clear split: compact, high-efficiency small-form-factor rigs for living-room-worthy performance, and purpose-built towers that prioritize raw frame rates, thermal headroom, and upgradeability. This feature pulls together the best pre-built systems on the market today, verifies their specifications against manufacturer and retail listings, and delivers practical buying guidance so you get the best balance of performance, value, and long-term...

Much of keeping a Windows PC feeling fast and reliable comes down to discipline—regular cleanups, timely scans, and dependable backups—and automating those chores with the built‑in Windows Task Scheduler is one of the most effective ways to remove the human factor from maintenance and make a machine reliably unobtrusive. Background / Overview Windows Task Scheduler is the long‑running automation engine that ships with Windows and lets you run programs, scripts, or built‑in utilities...

Keeping track of what Windows 10 has installed on your PC is a small habit that pays huge dividends when troubleshooting, validating security patches, or confirming whether a feature update actually applied — and it’s easier than most users think. This guide takes the short how‑to you may have read and expands it into a practical, verifiable reference: three quick methods (Settings, Command Prompt, PowerShell), a deeper look at the logs and version history, and a clear set of troubleshooting...