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Microsoft has set a firm deadline: Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025 — but the real story is less about a single sunset date and more about the layered, pragmatic exit Microsoft has built: a one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge, continued security servicing for Microsoft 365 Apps and Microsoft Edge/WebView2 on select Windows 10 builds, and a messy, phased enrollment rollout that IT teams and home users must navigate now to avoid last‑minute risk...

Windows 11’s latest LE Audio work finally breaks the decades‑old trade‑off that forced Bluetooth headsets to choose between high‑fidelity stereo playback and usable microphone quality during calls and game chat, delivering a super‑wideband stereo path that keeps your game audio in stereo while the mic is active — provided your headset, Bluetooth radio, drivers and Windows build all line up. Background Bluetooth on PCs historically split two use cases into different protocol islands: A2DP...

Microsoft's long-running Bluetooth audio compromise — that moment when music or game sound collapses into muffled, mono “telephone” quality as soon as the headset microphone is used — has finally started to get a realistic, standards‑level fix in Windows 11: the OS now exposes Bluetooth LE Audio and the modern LC3 codec, enabling simultaneous stereo media and high‑quality voice (super‑wideband) on compatible headsets and PCs. Background For more than a decade the PC Bluetooth experience has...

Canadian universities are no longer debating whether to engage with generative artificial intelligence — they are designing how to manage it. In the last 18 months a clear pattern has emerged across Canada’s major campuses: centrally provisioned, enterprise-grade AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot and licensed versions of ChatGPT Edu are being offered to students and staff, while academic leaders simultaneously lean on principle-based governance, instructor discretion, and new training...

Samsung and Microsoft have agreed to bring Microsoft Copilot — the company’s generative AI assistant — to Samsung’s 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors, folding natural‑language AI into large displays via Samsung’s new Vision AI framework and a Copilot web experience built into the screens. This move extends Copilot from PCs and productivity apps into living‑room and home‑office screens, promising on‑screen summaries, personalized content discovery, cross‑device workflows with Microsoft accounts...

TD SYNNEX’s newly announced Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services marks a major channel-level push to accelerate cloud migration, AI adoption, and Marketplace monetization across North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, with the distributor positioning its StreamOne platform and reseller enablement programs as the connective tissue that will let SMBs, ISVs and mid-market partners scale AWS-based solutions faster and more profitably. Background TD SYNNEX has...

Microsoft's candid admission that it “cannot guarantee” European customer data will never be handed to U.S. authorities has turned a long‑standing corporate argument about cloud sovereignty into a live-policy moment — and prompted sharp public ripostes from regional players such as OVHcloud’s chief legal officer, who says the admission merely confirms what European providers and privacy advocates have been warning for years. (senat.fr, theregister.com) Background The legal and technical...

Security researchers have observed a coordinated, large‑scale reconnaissance campaign probing Microsoft Remote Desktop services that began as a sudden one‑day spike and escalated into a torrent of scans — a pattern that looks less like opportunistic background noise and more like deliberate preparation for credential‑based intrusions against U.S. targets, especially education networks. GreyNoise telemetry shows nearly 2,000 malicious IPs probing RD Web Access and the RDP Web Client...

Microsoft's latest move to centralize and simplify enterprise patching — pushing Azure Update Manager as the recommended path for orchestrating Windows updates across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid fleets — promises to change how IT teams plan, schedule, and recover from update events while also exposing important operational caveats administrators must understand before accelerating adoption. Background Enterprises have long wrestled with patch management complexity: fragmented tooling...

Mozilla shipped a follow-up update to last week’s major refresh, releasing Firefox 142.0.1 as a focused bug-fix build that patches several user-facing regressions and a handful of platform-specific crashes — an important, incremental step that most users should install as soon as it reaches their systems. Background / Overview Firefox’s rapid-release cadence has meant that substantive feature changes and small, targeted hotfixes often appear within days of each other. Firefox 142 — which...

Windows 95 still humming away on a German egg farm’s sorting machine is the kind of tech anecdote that feels half nostalgic and half alarm bell: the OS that helped shape modern PC culture is quietly logging counts, printing labels and—if the farmer is right—doing so more “smoothly than newer programs.” Background Windows 95 was released to retail audiences in August 1995 and is widely credited with normalizing the Start menu, taskbar and the file-explorer paradigm that still informs desktop...

Windows Subsystem for Linux has quietly become one of the most consequential developer features in Windows 11 — not because it’s flashy, but because it removes long-standing friction between two operating systems that many of us need to use every day. What used to require dual‑booting, slow virtual machines, or awkward file-sync workarounds is now a few commands and a clean integration away: WSL gives you a real Linux userland (and, with WSLg, Linux GUI apps) running alongside Windows, with...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update finally addresses one of the OS’s longest-running frustrations: Bluetooth headsets that sound great until you speak, at which point audio collapses into muffled, mono “telephone” quality. The update brings LE Audio support and the modern LC3 codec to the Windows audio pipeline, allowing compatible Bluetooth headsets to deliver stereo media and a high‑quality microphone path at the same time — a change that promises measurable improvement for gamers...

Phison says its lab work could not reproduce the Windows 11 SSD corruption reports that circulated after the August cumulative updates — but the episode exposes how fragile modern storage stacks can be when OS updates and controller firmware collide, and why backups, staged rollouts, and vendor telemetry remain the only reliable defenses against catastrophic data loss. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped the combined Servicing Stack Update (SSU) and Latest Cumulative Update for Windows...

Microsoft has quietly closed one of PC audio’s most persistent gaps: Windows 11 now supports super wideband stereo for Bluetooth LE Audio, letting compatible headsets deliver full stereo playback while the microphone is active — a change that promises clearer game chat, better voice calls, and the first practical path to true Spatial Audio over Bluetooth on Windows. Background Bluetooth audio on PCs has long been hamstrung by an old trade‑off: wired or A2DP for high‑fidelity stereo, and...

Phison’s latest public stance changes the tone of what started as a panic: after industry-wide reports that a mid‑August Windows 11 cumulative update could cause NVMe SSDs to disappear during long writes, Phison says its internal testing — described as extensive — was unable to reproduce the catastrophic failures and it recommends heatsinks for high‑performance drives as a precautionary measure. d‑August, Microsoft released a combined Servicing Stack Update (SSU) and Latest Cumulative Update...

Anthropic’s new Chrome extension quietly signals the next phase of enterprise AI: assistants that don’t just answer questions but act inside your browser — clicking, filling, and navigating like a human. The company has begun a controlled pilot of Claude for Chrome, inviting 1,000 paying subscribers on its premium “Max” tier to test an extension that gives Claude direct operating capability in Chrome. The feature promises major productivity gains for knowledge workers, but it also opens a...

Broadcom’s broadside from the VMware Explore stage in Las Vegas was blunt: enterprises should stop reflexively running to the public cloud and instead bring AI and modern apps back on-premises with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). Background Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware in late 2023 and has since repositioned VMware Cloud Foundation as the vendor’s strategic vehicle for private-cloud modernization and, now, private AI. At VMware Explore 2025 the company launched a series of...

OpenAI’s stalled restructuring and the high-stakes renegotiation with Microsoft have become a pivotal strategic moment for AI-driven investors — one that combines enormous upside potential with governance, operational, and regulatory risk that could materially reshape returns over the next several years. The delay in converting OpenAI’s capped-profit structure into a tradable equity vehicle is no longer an abstract corporate matter: it directly threatens tranche-based funding from major...

Microsoft is rolling out a quiet but consequential change to how Word for Windows saves new documents: starting with Word for Windows Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000) in Insider channels, documents you create will be saved to the cloud (OneDrive, SharePoint, or a preferred cloud location) by default, with AutoSave toggled on and the document immediately available for collaboration, Copilot features, and cross-device sync. Background For years, Microsoft Word has supported two parallel save...