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Windows 11’s storage warnings are annoying—and avoidable—if you know where Windows hides junk and which built‑in tools remove it safely and quickly. This feature piece breaks down three fast, low‑risk ways to clear up storage space in Windows 11, explains what each does behind the scenes, and highlights the small trade‑offs and safety checks every user should run before emptying the digital trash. The guidance below synthesizes the practical tips in the Fast Company piece with...

Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) and its relationship with Windows Server have resurfaced in recent reporting as a nexus of operational pain and security risk — a story that blends a high‑volume patch cycle, at least one serious authentication vulnerability, and persistent configuration pitfalls that continue to trip administrators during WSUS and site deployments. ee default, deeply integrated web server on Windows Server and underpins everything from internal intranet...

Microsoft’s latest push to “harden Azure from silicon to systems” stitches together a clear thesis: security must be built into every layer of the cloud stack — starting in silicon and extending through firmware, host controllers, attestation, and immutable supply-chain evidence. The company’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) ties together custom silicon (the Azure Boost DPU), a server-local hardware security module (Azure Integrated HSM), confidential computing advances, an open silicon root...

A recent technical feature in International Daily News highlighted some of the most overlooked yet critical components in the Microsoft ecosystem: the interaction between IIS (Internet Information Services) and the Windows Server platform, common post-installation errors in WSUS (Windows Server Update Services), and new scalability and security features introduced in Windows Server 2025. The article, which combines community troubleshooting cases with official information, calls on system...

Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) and its relationship with Windows Server have once again become a focus. Recent reports from Hong Kong and international media, along with practical feedback from community forums, show that as Microsoft continues to release security patches and platform updates in 2025, the attack surface and operational pitfalls of IIS are also expanding. This article compiles official documentation, security research reports, and discussions from practical...

IIS can appear to “refuse” a domain, WSUS post‑install can abort with 0x80070003, and small configuration mismatches in Windows Server often hide behind cryptic error messages—but the underlying causes are usually straightforward to diagnose and fix. This feature unpacks the most common IIS + WSUS failure modes uncovered in recent community reports, explains the technical root causes, verifies recommended fixes against vendor documentation and community experience, and delivers a practical...

The snap layouts flyout that appears when you drag a window to the top of the screen can be useful — but for many multi‑monitor users it’s an irritating interruption; Windows 11 exposes a single checkbox that removes that top‑of‑screen UI while leaving snap functionality intact, and this article explains why you might want to turn it off, how to do it safely, and what alternatives and caveats to consider. Background Snap Layouts is a core multitasking enhancement in Windows 11 that surfaces...

If you opened Microsoft Teams this morning and discovered channels that used to live in your team have vanished—or the Teams button and channel lists simply aren’t where they used to be—don’t panic. This is a common, usually reversible issue that has two broad roots: deliberate UI changes Microsoft is rolling out (the new combined Chats-and-Channels experience) and local/client-side problems (cache, filters, or app corruption). This feature-long guide explains what’s happening, verifies the...

The largest technology companies are weathering a volatile market not because the case for them is uncomplicated, but because the economics of artificial intelligence have tilted the strategic balance in their favor: giant, cash-rich platforms can underwrite the infrastructure, talent and product integration required to turn AI from a headline into a durable revenue engine. The near-term noise — regulation, tariffs, chip shortages and the usual execution stumbles — will persist. Still, the...

A quietly radical idea—don’t put another screen on your face; put intelligence in your ears—has surfaced from inside Microsoft’s design ranks and, in doing so, reopened a long-running debate about how AI should meet the world. The Copilot Veja concept, an unofficial design study by Microsoft principal designer Braz de Pina, imagines a HoloLens successor that abandons the heads‑up display in favor of ear‑worn, audio‑first “stems” with stereoscopic cameras, microphones, and tactile controls...

The Shiva 2 / YEAH MAGIC listing on teamduval.org reads like a mash-up of every buzzword a prebuilt‑PC shopper is conditioned to crave: an AMD Ryzen CPU, 16GB DDR5, a 1TB Gen4 NVMe, ARGB fans, Windows 11 Home, and — most provocatively — an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB GDDR7. The copy then folds in a separate Skytech Azure product blurb, alternating between Ryzen 5 8600G and Ryzen 5 9600X, and promises “Ultra settings” 1440p gaming across a laundry list of AAA titles. It’s an...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a significant tool into public preview that aims to simplify one of the messiest tasks in datacenter life: converting and migrating virtual machines from VMware vCenter/ESXi to Microsoft’s Hyper-V infrastructure using a built-in Windows Admin Center extension called VM Conversion. The extension promises agentless, CBT-backed replication, automatic boot-type mapping (BIOS → Generation 1, UEFI → Generation 2), and the ability to synchronize and migrate up to 10 VMs...

SEFE’s move to Oracle Database@Azure is a pragmatic example of how targeted cloud migration—driven by efficiency, resilience, and careful license management—can deliver measurable wins for infrastructure performance and business continuity while exposing teams to the familiar trade-offs of multicloud strategies. Background SEFE (Securing Energy for Europe) is an international energy company focused on energy security and decarbonization, supplying industrial customers, municipal utilities...

Microsoft’s presentation at Hot Chips 2025 pulled back the curtain on a quiet but pivotal shift in how Azure defends the cloud: security is moving from centralized, cluster-level appliances into the silicon and server chassis themselves, with the Azure Integrated HSM and companion custom silicon (and open Caliptra 2.0 root of trust) designed to protect keys, detect tamper, and reduce cryptographic latency at hyperscale. rlem bluntly: cloud operators no longer only face external network...

Windows 11 will now, in some scenarios, download and install updates automatically while a device is still in the Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE), a change that promises better day‑one security for new machines but also raises practical, operational and privacy tradeoffs for both consumers and IT administrators. (learn.microsoft.com, techcommunity.microsoft.com) Background Microsoft has been iterating on the Out‑Of‑Box Experience for several years, moving from a purely cosmetic first‑run wizard...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 can now attempt to repair itself after repeated boot failures by reaching out to the cloud, downloading targeted fixes, and applying them from the Windows Recovery Environment — a feature Microsoft calls Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) and which is being rolled out as part of the broader Windows Resiliency Initiative. This is a meaningful shift: instead of leaving users or admins to wrestle with recovery media, cryptic error codes, or manual rollbacks, Windows can...

Windows 11 can now attempt to repair itself automatically after repeated boot failures using a new cloud-aware feature called Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) — a Best-Effort, WinRE-based remediation pipeline Microsoft built as part of its Windows Resiliency Initiative and which is rolling out into the 24H2 servicing stream (delivered via cumulative updates in summer 2025). (learn.microsoft.com, blogs.windows.com) Background Microsoft’s decision to bring an automated, cloud-assisted recovery...

Elon Musk’s cheeky “Macrohard” provocation is grabbing headlines, but the claim that it will meaningfully dent Microsoft’s Azure business is premature — and underestimates the practical, contractual, and engineering barriers any AI‑first upstart must clear to displace a multi‑product enterprise ecosystem. ard—announced as a recruiting and thesis statement on X—positions itself as a “purely AI” software company built around agentic systems that write, test, deploy, and operate software...

Lost Soul Aside’s PC release lands with a surprisingly full-featured port: native DualSense support with adaptive triggers, unlocked framerates and multi-monitor 4K/HDR, advanced ray-tracing for reflections, shadows and global illumination — and a PC requirements chart that effectively makes ray tracing a high-end-only proposition unless you own a current-generation RTX 4080-series (the studio’s spec calls out “4080s/4080 Super”-class silicon for RT play). Background Lost Soul Aside began...

Microsoft’s recent user survey — surfaced by reporting from Windows Latest — suggests the company is actively exploring ways to make Microsoft Edge’s Copilot mode behave more like Perplexity’s Comet: not just a summarizer but an agentic browser that can act across tabs and automate multi-step tasks on your behalf. The survey asks Edge users about advanced capabilities such as multi-tab context, extracting tables to Excel, drafting and sending emails, filling forms, and generating shopping...