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LinkedIn’s pivot to paying creators is already reshaping the B2B advertising playbook—and the move could be one of the clearest strategic accelerants for Microsoft’s ad and cloud ecosystem this decade. The thesis is simple: by turning professional content into a monetizable, creator-driven feed and coupling that inventory with Microsoft’s AI and LinkedIn’s verified professional data, Microsoft has a unique path to higher-quality advertising outcomes, stronger platform stickiness, and durable...

Microsoft’s deputy CISO for Identity lays out a clear warning: autonomous agents are moving from experiments to production, and without new identity, access, data, and runtime controls they will create risks that are fundamentally different from those posed by traditional users and service accounts. Background / Overview Autonomous agents — software entities able to reason, call tools, and take actions toward goals with minimal human intervention — are no longer a niche research idea. Over...

Logitech’s next-generation MX Master 4 has leaked in near-complete form, and the early picture points to a measured, productivity-first evolution rather than a wholesale reinvention of the MX Master line — with haptic feedback, a new Actions Ring control, and a refined exterior leading the changes. Background The MX Master family has been the benchmark for ergonomic, productivity-oriented mice for most of the last decade. The MX Master 3 arrived in 2019 and the 3S refined clicks and sensor...

Parallels Desktop 26 arrives as a pragmatic, compatibility‑first update that explicitly prepares Mac users and IT teams for Apple’s macOS 26 “Tahoe” host changes and Microsoft’s Windows 11 25H2 guest cycle while tightening enterprise controls and addressing several long‑standing virtualization friction points. Background / Overview Parallels has shifted its major release numbering to a year‑based model, aligning product cadence with Apple’s new OS naming approach. That renumbering — now...

Microsoft has quietly begun testing a Handoff-like “resume on PC” experience in Windows 11 Insider Preview builds that lets you start playback in Spotify on your Android phone and pick it up on your PC with a single click — a small but meaningful step toward the kind of cross-device continuity Apple users have enjoyed for years. Background Apple’s Continuity and Handoff features have long been benchmark conveniences: start an activity on one device and continue it on another with minimal...

Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5063878) has been linked by multiple independent testers and SSD vendors to a troubling storage regression: under sustained, large write workloads some SSDs temporarily vanish from the operating system — and in a subset of reports files written during the event were truncated or corrupted. Background / Overview Microsoft released KB5063878 as the August 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (24H2) to deliver security and quality fixes...

Want Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl to look its absolute best? Enabling HDR can dramatically improve contrast, color depth, and highlight detail — but on Windows this feature is a chain-of-trust that requires the OS, GPU driver, monitor, cable, and the game itself to agree. This step‑by‑step guide walks you through every check, toggle, and calibration you need to enable HDR for Stalker 2, plus practical troubleshooting and safe tuning tips so you get cinematic visuals without the common...

Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows 11 has introduced a painful wrinkle for broadcasters and multi‑PC streamers: NDI‑based feeds using the protocol’s default Reliable UDP (RUDP) transport began exhibiting severe stuttering, dropped frames, and choppy audio/video, forcing producers to apply a temporary transport‑mode workaround while Microsoft investigates a permanent fix. Background The August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) — part of...

Microsoft’s August feature wave for Excel is one of those rare months where small, practical fixes land alongside bold, platform-level moves — and together they point to a clearer roadmap: Excel is becoming more connected, more AI-aware, and less tolerant of legacy quirks that have long frustrated global teams. The updates span the desktop, web, and Mac clients and include long-requested capabilities such as PivotTable auto-refresh, a Unicode-correct set of text functions under a new...

Microsoft’s warning that “the Windows are wide open for bad actors” is not hyperbole—October 14, 2025 is a hard deadline for Windows 10 support, and the downstream effects for healthcare providers, regulated institutions, and any organization running large fleets of legacy applications are immediate, expensive, and operationally brutal. The Security Magazine analysis that landed this warning lays out exactly how the timing, legacy-dependency, and procurement rhythms of hospitals and clinics...

The clock is ticking: on October 14, 2025, Microsoft will stop issuing regular security updates and technical support for Windows 10, and millions of PCs — from hand-me-down laptops to office rigs — will be exposed unless their owners act now. Microsoft has published an official Extended Security Updates (ESU) programme that can buy eligible Windows 10 devices one extra year of critical and important security patches through October 13, 2026, but the company’s enrolment mechanism has been...

Parallels Desktop 26 lands with ready-made support for Apple’s macOS 26 (Tahoe) and Microsoft’s Windows 11 25H2, a release focused on compatibility, enterprise management, and stability fixes that aim to keep Mac-based virtualization smooth as Apple and Microsoft push new OS changes. Parallels frames this update as forward-looking: year-based versioning to match Apple’s new naming convention, tighter handling of macOS 26 process restrictions, more accurate Mac disk visibility inside Windows...

Microsoft’s latest survey of Microsoft Edge users reads like a product roadmap with question marks — a quiet probe that, if the signals are read correctly, points to a future where Copilot in Edge moves from summarizer to doer. The questionnaire currently circulating among Edge users asks not only about frequency and purpose of Copilot use but teases scenarios that would give the assistant broader browser-wide context, explicit automation powers (from extracting tables into Excel to filling...

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...