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Microsoft has finally ended one of PC audio’s most stubborn compromises: on supported systems running Windows 11, Bluetooth headsets can now deliver stereo, high‑fidelity media audio at the same time their built‑in microphone captures voice at super‑wideband quality, rather than collapsing audio into low‑quality mono the instant the mic is used. Background / Overview For more than a decade the Bluetooth audio story on PCs has been defined by a trade‑off baked into older Bluetooth profiles...

Satya Nadella says he now runs parts of his day with GPT‑5 inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, sharing five concrete prompts that have moved the assistant from a helpful tool to a strategic layer in his schedule, meeting prep, project assessment and risk spotting. Background Microsoft’s rapid roll‑out of GPT‑5 across the Copilot family is more than a headline — it’s a platform pivot. In early August 2025 Microsoft began embedding the GPT‑5 model family into Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot...

AudioCodes' Voca Conversational Interaction Center (CIC) has been certified under Microsoft’s Teams Unify model and immediately leveraged that validation to claim another industry accolade — winning UC Today’s 2025 Best Microsoft Teams Contact Center award — a development that tightens the vendor’s Microsoft-first positioning and raises practical questions for IT teams about reliability, deployment models, and AI governance. Background Microsoft’s Teams ecosystem has evolved from a...

When File Explorer becomes the system’s biggest CPU hog after upgrading to Windows 11 24H2, it stops being a mild annoyance and starts costing time, battery life, and user confidence—with many users reporting sustained explorer.exe or related processes eating CPU even at idle. The problem is real for a subset of machines, but it’s also solvable: this article explains what’s happening, verifies what Microsoft changed in the cumulative updates, and walks through a prioritized, low‑risk...

Samsung and Microsoft have quietly turned the living room into a new front in the “Copilot Everywhere” campaign: Microsoft Copilot is now embedded in select Samsung 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors, positioned as a voice‑first, multi‑turn conversational assistant that speaks aloud, shows large, glanceable visual cards optimized for distance viewing, and appears as a small animated, lip‑synced on‑screen persona designed for shared viewing scenarios. ung’s 2025 product strategy centers on Vision...

Microsoft's Xbox division has quietly begun nudging UK players to prove they are adults — and made clear that failure to do so will blunt the console's social engines beginning in early 2026, a direct consequence of the UK's Online Safety Act and the regulator's demand for "highly effective" age assurance. Background Since July 2025 the Online Safety Act has forced platforms operating in the UK to adopt robust, technically accurate, robust, reliable and fair age checks for services that...

Microsoft Azure Communication Services has opened the door for truly global SMS by adding a partner-led routing layer — Messaging Connect — and Infobip is the first partner to bring carrier-grade, cross-border SMS into that pipeline, instantly extending Azure’s SMS footprint into dozens of new markets and sender types for enterprises and developers. Background SMS remains one of the most resilient and widely used customer engagement channels for authentication, real-time alerts, and critical...

Microsoft’s emergency ultimatum to Gab in August 2018 exposed a growing fault line in internet governance: cloud providers now sit squarely between platform free-speech arguments and real-world harms when violent or genocidal rhetoric appears on hosted services. The episode — Microsoft notifying Gab that two posts calling for the ritualized torture and eradication of Jewish people must be removed within 48 hours or the social network risked losing Azure hosting — crystallized how...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878) lit a firestorm of community reports claiming large file copies could make some NVMe drives “vanish” or return corrupted after a reboot — but a coordinated vendor investigation led by NAND controller maker Phison found no reproducible defect after thousands of hours of lab testing, and Microsoft says it has seen no telemetry-driven increase in disk failures while it actively collects affected-user feedback. Background Within days of...

Samsung and Microsoft have quietly redefined what a TV can do by bringing the company’s Copilot generative AI to select 2025 Samsung Smart TVs and Smart Monitors, turning passive displays into voice-first, multi‑turn conversational hubs that handle content discovery, spoiler‑safe recaps, translation, smart‑home control and light productivity. e product messaging centers on Vision AI — an umbrella for on‑device image, audio and contextual processing — and Copilot is being positioned as the...

Microsoft’s new Windows Backup for Organizations lands in the enterprise as a tightly scoped, Intune-integrated way to preserve Windows settings and Microsoft Store app lists in the cloud — but it is not a replacement for disk imaging, file-level backups, or full disaster recovery. Background / Overview Microsoft announced Windows Backup for Organizations as part of recent Release Preview updates and accompanying documentation, positioning it as an enterprise-grade feature to reduce friction...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly gained the ability to accept multiple files and images in a single chat session — a practical, long-requested update that promises to speed workflows and make multimodal reasoning more useful — but early hands‑on tests expose important limits and some surprising blind spots, particularly when the assistant is asked to identify specific graphics‑card models from images. Background / Overview Microsoft has been steadily folding more capable multimodal features...

Microsoft’s Copilot is taking another step off the desktop and onto the living-room big screen: the assistant is now embedded in select 2025 Samsung TVs and Smart Monitors, offering voice-first, multi‑turn conversational search, spoiler‑safe recaps, contextual on‑screen cards, SmartThings control and light productivity features — a move that explicitly advances Microsoft’s “Copilot Everywhere” strategy and reframes the TV as an active household assistant rather than a passive display. the...

Microsoft has quietly closed one of Windows audio’s most persistent usability gaps by adding support for Bluetooth LE Audio and a super‑wideband stereo path in Windows 11, a change that finally stops stereophonic game and media sound from collapsing into muffled, mono telephone audio the moment a headset microphone is used. Background For more than a decade, Bluetooth audio on PCs has lived with a protocol‑level compromise: the legacy Classic Bluetooth stack split playback and bidirectional...

Microsoft’s Copilot AI has arrived on Samsung’s 2025 smart TVs and smart monitors, bringing a voice‑driven, conversational assistant and animated on‑screen persona to the living room at no extra cost — initially on select Micro LED, Neo QLED, OLED, The Frame and The Frame Pro models, plus the M7, M8 and M9 Smart Monitors, with availability rolling out by market and model beginning in late August 2025. The integration is built into Samsung’s Tizen OS and Vision AI stack, and it lets viewers...

Microsoft has quietly rolled out a public preview of a new VM Conversion tool inside Windows Admin Center that aims to make VMware to Hyper‑V migration straightforward, agentless, and low‑risk for organizations of all sizes. The extension promises quick setup (Microsoft says you can begin converting VMs in under five minutes), agentless discovery of vCenter inventories, bulk conversions of up to ten VMs at a time, support for both Windows and Linux guests, and a two‑phase replication...

Amazon’s Q2 results forced a recalibration: the cloud unit that once underwrote Amazon’s long-term bets is still massive, but its growth and margins are under pressure in an AI-driven market that increasingly rewards integrated, productized models over raw compute capacity. The data from Q2 — AWS revenue of roughly $30.9 billion (+17.5% YoY), an operating-margin decline to ~32.9%, a trailing‑12‑month free cash flow collapse to $18.2 billion, and an expanding capital‑spend program north of...

Parallels Desktop 26 arrives as a pragmatic, compatibility‑first update that brings day‑one support for macOS 26 (Tahoe) and prepares virtual machines for Windows 11 25H2, while reshaping Parallels’ versioning, sharpening enterprise management tools, and fixing long‑standing integration friction that has historically made macOS upgrades disruptive for VM users. lels has long been the default choice for users who need to run Windows and other operating systems alongside macOS without...

Silicon Motion’s move to accelerate production of PCIe Gen5 controllers coincides with an unexpectedly brisk corporate refresh cycle driven by the upcoming Windows 10 end-of-support deadline, and together these forces are reshaping the client SSD supply chain, NAND demand dynamics, and the cadence of PC upgrades across enterprise and consumer channels. The headline — that Silicon Motion is ramping Gen5 controller output precisely as Windows 10 retirement fuels a PC upgrade surge — captures a...

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