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Windows 11’s built‑in Reserved Storage quietly ties up several gigabytes on the system drive to make updates and system maintenance more reliable — and if you’re on a cramped 128GB (or smaller) SSD, temporarily turning it off is a legitimate, supported way to reclaim space fast, provided you understand the trade‑offs and re‑enable it before attempting major feature updates. Background / Overview Reserved Storage (sometimes called Storage Reserve or Reserved Storage) was introduced to Windows...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer an experiment you can buy and forget; it’s a capability that demands the same programmatic rigor as ERP, CRM, or any other enterprise-grade system if organizations want predictable ROI and real, sustained change. Background: why Copilot adoption matters now Microsoft 365 Copilot sits at the intersection of two tectonic shifts: the migration of knowledge work into cloud-native collaboration suites and the rapid maturation of large language models that can...

Atturra’s latest Microsoft milestone and its sovereign private‑cloud expansion mark a calculated push to capture government and enterprise workloads that hyperscalers can’t — but the claim that it has been named “Microsoft’s first private cloud partner in Australia” requires careful qualification. Background / Overview Microsoft’s partner model has been reshaped over the past few years into the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program with a set of heavyweight Solutions Partner designations that...

Parallels Desktop’s latest update lands as a consequential bridge between macOS’s year-based refresh cycle and the Windows ecosystem, delivering official macOS Tahoe compatibility while tightening enterprise controls and Windows VM reliability for the post-2024 OS landscape. The release — labeled Parallels Desktop 26 to align with Apple’s new year-centric naming — promises smoother Coherence mode behavior on macOS 26 Tahoe, declared compatibility with Windows 11 25H2, and a set of...

Microsoft is quietly testing a true “Continue on PC” experience for Android apps inside Windows 11 — a handoff-style feature currently available to Windows Insiders that lets you pick up an activity running on an Android phone and resume it on a Windows 11 PC, with Spotify acting as the first live example of the capability. view Microsoft first introduced Android app support for Windows 11 with the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) and an Amazon Appstore integration, which allowed a...

High Dynamic Range can transform how games and movies look on a PC, but getting HDR right on an RTX-powered Windows 11 system requires more than flipping a single toggle: you need the right GPU, display, cable, drivers, and calibration. This guide pulls together a practical, step-by-step setup for enabling HDR on NVIDIA RTX cards, the important compatibility checks, and professional troubleshooting and tuning tips so your HDR experience is vibrant — not broken or washed out. rview HDR (High...

HDR gaming can be a dramatic upgrade for many players — richer highlights, deeper blacks, and colors that finally look like what the developers intended — but whether it actually improves your experience depends on your hardware, your patience for calibration, and how each game implements HDR. Background: why HDR matters now High Dynamic Range (HDR) expands the range of luminance and color a display can reproduce compared with traditional Standard Dynamic Range (SDR). That means brighter...

Microsoft’s DocumentDB — the open, PostgreSQL‑backed document database Microsoft launched earlier this year — has formally moved under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation, a shift that promises broader vendor neutrality, a clearer governance model, and a path toward an open standard for NoSQL document databases. The codebase and project governance will now live in a Linux Foundation project with a Technical Steering Committee and a group of maintainers, while the project’s GitHub home...

Microsoft has opened public preview of a long‑requested, first‑party VM Conversion extension inside Windows Admin Center, giving administrators a built‑in, agentless way to convert and migrate virtual machines from VMware vCenter/ESXi to Hyper‑V with minimal downtime and streamlined tooling. The feature is included in Windows Admin Center v2 (GA) under Extensions and is positioned for on‑premises modernization projects and hybrid readiness rather than cloud lift‑and‑shift scenarios. years...

GitHub Copilot for Azure has landed inside Visual Studio 2022 as a public preview, bringing a curated set of Azure management tools directly into Copilot Chat — Agent Mode and enabling developers to inspect resources, pull logs, run Azure CLI/azd commands, and even deploy applications from inside the IDE without manual MCP setup. This integration installs and runs a bundled Azure MCP (Model Context Protocol) server automatically, exposes a broad suite of Azure tools as MCP endpoints, and...

Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, becoming a read‑only app on that date and requiring users to migrate to the new OneNote on Windows app to continue editing, syncing, and receiving feature updates and security fixes. This change arrives in lockstep with Windows 10’s end‑of‑support timeline and is part of Microsoft’s long‑term consolidation of OneNote into a single, actively developed Windows client. For home users, IT admins...

If HDR stopped working or suddenly looks washed out after a Windows update, you’re not alone — a wave of users reported Auto HDR and HDR video problems after recent Windows 11 updates, and Microsoft has issued fixes and guidance to restore proper HDR behavior. This feature-first rollout exposed fragile hardware-driver interactions (GPU drivers, monitor firmware, cables and Windows display pipelines), but there are clear, step-by-step actions you can take now to get HDR back, safely re-enable...

If your AppData folder is ballooning and consuming valuable disk space, this guide walks through four practical fixes — from safe, built‑in cleanups to targeted troubleshooting for runaway temp producers — and explains the trade‑offs and safeguards every Windows user should know. Background Windows stores per‑user application data in the AppData hierarchy (Local, LocalLow, Roaming). That structure holds caches, temporary files, settings, and other artifacts that grow over time. Many routine...

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Microsoft’s Copilot for Microsoft 365 was supposed to make AI agents safer to run at enterprise scale; instead, recent reports show a control-plane failure that left some agents discoverable and installable despite tenant-level policy locks—forcing administrators into time-consuming, per-agent PowerShell workarounds and increasing the risk of data exposure, incomplete audit trails, and unmanaged automation. Background Microsoft built the Copilot agent model to let organizations extend...

Microsoft's HoloLens may have been sidelined, but a Microsoft designer's fan-made vision — the Copilot Veja — shows how the next wave of mixed‑reality thinking could trade heavy headsets for discreet, AI‑supercharged earbuds that "see" the world and speak answers back in real time. Background: HoloLens, its end of production, and why ideas like Copilot Veja matter Microsoft quietly wound down production of the HoloLens 2, shifting the company’s mixed‑reality posture away from manufacturing...

Microsoft's public notice about Windows 10 support is no longer just a calendar reminder — it's a deadline with real consequences for security, compatibility, and the cost of staying on an aging platform. Background: what the missing Primedia Plus article and Microsoft actually say The link provided to Primedia Plus returns a missing page, so that specific article cannot be verified or quoted. The requested Primedia Plus URL shows a "resource not found" response when fetched, meaning any...

iLink Digital’s recent announcements mark a notable moment in the crowded Microsoft partner ecosystem: the company says it has reached Microsoft’s top-tier Azure expertise and — according to a syndicated press release — earned placement on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, milestones that, if fully corroborated, accelerate its credibility as a global cloud services and digital transformation provider. This feature examines what those claims mean in practice, why the Azure Expert MSP designation...

Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot’s reach deeper into the Azure developer workflow by launching a public preview of the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension for Visual Studio 2022, bringing a curated set of Azure tools—exposed via an Azure Model Context Protocol (MCP) server—directly into Copilot’s Agent Mode so developers can query resources, pull logs, diagnose issues, run CLI commands, and even deploy applications without leaving the IDE. Background / Overview Microsoft and GitHub have...

Microsoft’s new VM Conversion extension for Windows Admin Center arrives as a pragmatic, first‑party option to move workloads from VMware vCenter/ESXi to on‑premises Hyper‑V, promising an agentless, appliance‑free migration workflow that minimizes downtime and keeps administrative control inside the Windows Admin Center management plane. Background For years, organizations that wanted to leave VMware for Hyper‑V faced a mix of third‑party converters, manual reconfiguration, or cloud‑centric...