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Microsoft’s move to extend certain Windows 10 security updates changes the immediate calculus for businesses and IT teams — it is a pragmatic reprieve, not a permanent fix, and treating it as anything other than a final planning window risks expensive, complex consequences. Background: what Microsoft actually announced and why it matters Microsoft’s lifecycle schedule for Windows 10 remains firm: mainstream support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. After that date Microsoft will stop...

Silicon Motion’s brief forum reply claiming that “none of our controllers are affected” landed as a hopeful note amid a widening industry investigation into Windows 11’s August 2025 cumulative update (KB5063878) — but the evidence available to date shows a complex, cross‑stack problem that cannot be resolved by a single forum statement and still requires coordinated telemetry, SKU‑level firmware checks, and conservative user action. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped the combined...

Microsoft’s expanded partnership with the National Football League brings Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, and more than 2,500 Surface Copilot+ devices to the sideline — a move that aims to put real-time game analytics, faster scouting, and workflow automation directly into the hands of coaches, players, and club staff while accelerating AI adoption across front‑office, stadium operations, and player-evaluation workflows. Background The NFL and Microsoft announced a multi‑year extension of their...

Silicon Motion has told at least one forum poster that “none of our controllers are affected” by the Windows 11 storage regression that surfaced after Microsoft’s August 2025 cumulative update — but the larger picture remains unsettled and users should treat that single claim cautiously while they back up and avoid heavy writes until vendors and Microsoft publish confirmed guidance. What happened (short version) On August 12, 2025 Microsoft shipped the combined Servicing Stack Update +...

IGEL’s message landed at an awkwardly perfect moment: as Broadcom’s reshaping of VMware nudges enterprises toward migration decisions and Microsoft’s timetable for Windows 10 reaches its endpoint, IGEL is pitching a simple — and radical — premise for enterprises that want to shrink the endpoint attack surface, extend device lifecycles, and reduce agent sprawl with a read‑only OS and centralized management. Background: why timing matters now The industry story arc of the last 18–24 months has...

Microsoft has set a firm, public timetable to make its entire product and service portfolio resilient to the quantum threat — committing to enable early adoption of quantum‑safe capabilities by 2029 and to complete a full transition to post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) across Windows, Azure, Microsoft 365 and related services by 2033. Background The cryptographic underpinnings of most modern digital services — RSA and elliptic‑curve cryptography (ECC) in particular — rely on mathematical...

Zscaler’s claim that its cloud sees “over half a trillion transactions a day” has suddenly become more than a brag about scale — it’s the center of a fresh privacy controversy after external reports and researcher commentary interpreted CEO remarks to mean Zscaler is using customer logs and full URLs from that data stream to train its AI systems, while Zscaler’s own statements insist it does not use customer-identifiable data for model training. (sdxcentral.com, zscaler.com) Background...

Microsoft has pushed the first public Release Candidate (RC0) of SQL Server 2025 into preview with two headline changes that matter to every Windows-centric IT team experimenting with Linux-first development: official Ubuntu 24.04 support for dev/test scenarios and TLS 1.3 enabled by default, with container-ready artifacts and quickstart guidance to make testing painless. Background Microsoft’s SQL Server on Linux initiative has steadily broadened platform support and hardened security since...

Microsoft’s new guidance for Secure Boot key creation and management sharpens the playbook OEMs and ODMs must follow to keep Windows devices secure at scale, and it arrives with concrete, time-sensitive actions: recommended key types and sizes, explicit lifecycle controls, and an urgent rolling plan for a Microsoft KEK CA rollover that affects in-market devices. The guidance — published as a Microsoft Support article and expanded on Microsoft’s Windows hardware documentation — is aimed...

Microsoft’s guidance on Secure Boot key creation and management is an urgent operational playbook for every Windows administrator: a coordinated certificate rollover is underway that replaces legacy 2011 UEFI/CA trust anchors with new 2023 CA families, and failure to prepare — especially on older or OEM-locked firmware — can block pre‑boot updates or in some cases prevent devices from trusting legitimately signed boot components. elies on a small set of cryptographic trust anchors stored in...

Microsoft’s guidance on Windows Secure Boot key creation and management is a clear signal: organizations and advanced users must prepare now for a multi-year certificate rollover that touches firmware, OS variables, and update pipelines — and that preparation requires coordinated firmware updates from OEMs, careful testing, and an operational plan to avoid boot-time failures or lost pre‑boot security updates. re Boot is a UEFI firmware feature that enforces a trusted boot path by validating...

NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW is getting its biggest upgrade yet: Blackwell-powered, RTX 5080-class servers begin rolling out in September, bringing DLSS 4 Multi‑Frame Generation, a new Cinematic‑Quality Streaming mode, dramatically higher peak streaming resolutions and frame rates, and an Install‑to‑Play workflow that nearly doubles the cloud library — all while adding 100GB of included single‑session cloud storage and optional persistent storage tiers for members. Background / Overview NVIDIA...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows is taking another decisive step from assistant to workplace hub by adding a semantic file search capability to the Copilot app and rebuilding its home surface into an action-focused dashboard — currently rolling out to Windows Insiders and gated to Copilot+ PCs with on-device neural acceleration. This update, delivered in Copilot app builds beginning with version 1.25082.132.0, lets users ask natural‑language queries like “find my CV” or “show images of...

Microsoft’s latest Visual Studio update tightens the reins on GitHub Copilot, giving developers explicit control over when suggestions appear, how much of a suggestion to accept, and whether predictive edits should interrupt their flow—changes that reshape Copilot from an always‑on assistant into a configurable coding partner. Background GitHub Copilot has evolved rapidly from an inline completion toy into a full-featured AI assistant in Visual Studio, offering completions, chat, multi-file...

Xbox’s PC app is getting a major usability push for PC and handheld gamers with a new “My Apps” hub that collects browsers, utilities, and rival storefronts in a single launcher inside the Xbox PC app — a move designed to make the Xbox app the central home for everything you play on Windows. The feature is rolling out to Xbox Insiders on Windows 11 this week as an experimental tab inside the Library, and Microsoft is positioning it as part of a broader effort — alongside an aggregated game...

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Microsoft and several SSD vendors are investigating reports that the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can trigger a reproducible storage regression where some SSDs vanish from the operating system during sustained, large sequential writes — a failure profile that in some community tests has produced truncated or corrupted files and, in a minority of cases, drives that remain inaccessible after reboot. Background / Overview Microsoft...

The FT232R USB UART driver is the thin but critical layer that turns a USB connector into a reliable serial COM port—and when it fails, development boards, 3D printers, ham radio cables, and other USB‑to‑serial devices can stop talking to Windows entirely. This guide walks through how to install the FT232R driver correctly on Windows 10/11, how to troubleshoot the most common problems, and which safety and security trade‑offs to weigh when you’re forced to use workarounds such as disabling...

Microsoft’s long-running support for Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025, forcing a choice for millions of users: upgrade to Windows 11, pay for a limited bridge of security-only updates, or continue running an increasingly risky, unsupported operating system. Overview Microsoft has fixed a hard end-of-support date for Windows 10: October 14, 2025. After that date, the company will no longer provide regular technical support, feature updates, or routine security patches for mainstream...

Microsoft’s latest headline-maker isn’t an official product roadmap or a Redmond press release — it’s a cinematic concept video and a string of executive hints that together sketch a vision of what a post‑Windows‑11 world might look like: a highly adaptive, AI‑first operating system that’s ambient, multimodal, and deeply personalized. The idea set off renewed debates about privacy, upgrade strategy, and whether Microsoft can translate design fantasy into durable engineering. The conversation...