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Microsoft is pulling the plug on the legacy OneNote app that shipped with Windows 10: beginning October 14, 2025, OneNote for Windows 10 (the UWP “legacy” client) will reach end of support and be placed into a read‑only state, and Microsoft is actively steering users and organizations toward the modern OneNote on Windows app as the single, supported OneNote experience. Background / Overview OneNote has lived as multiple codebases on Windows for years: a UWP app preinstalled on Windows 10...

The ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X arrive as a decisive pivot for handheld PC gaming: ASUS hardware meets Xbox branding and a newly consolized Windows 11 experience, with both devices slated to reach stores on October 16, 2025. Background / Overview The ROG Xbox Ally family is the product of a high-profile collaboration between ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) and Microsoft’s Xbox team. ASUS provides the thermal, industrial and controller engineering pedigree; Microsoft supplies Xbox...

Microsoft has quietly begun testing a conversational, meaning‑aware file and image search inside the Copilot app on Windows 11, a change that lets you describe what you’re looking for instead of hunting for exact filenames — and it’s arriving first to Copilot+ PCs as a staged Windows Insider preview. Background Microsoft has been steadily folding larger and more capable AI subsystems into Windows under the Copilot and Copilot+ initiatives. The newest preview, delivered as Copilot app builds...

Microsoft quietly patched a vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allowed the assistant to read and summarize enterprise files without producing the expected Purview audit entry — a gap that, if exploited, could let insiders or attackers extract sensitive data while leaving no trace in tenant audit logs. Background Microsoft 365 Copilot is the company’s flagship AI assistant integrated across Office, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and BizChat. It uses retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG)...

Microsoft has given a clear ultimatum to organizations still using the shared .onmicrosoft.com sending address: migrate to a verified custom domain or expect severe outbound throttling that will constrain external email to just 100 external recipients per organization in any 24‑hour rolling window for mail sent from MOERA (Microsoft Online Email Routing Address) domains. This restriction — aimed squarely at curbing abuse of freshly provisioned tenants and protecting the shared...

A handful of Arkane Lyon developers went public this month with an uncompromising demand: Microsoft must cut any ties that enable violence in Gaza — and remaining silent, they said, is tantamount to complicity. That open letter, penned by members of the French game‑workers’ union STJV at Arkane, landed inside a broader storm over Microsoft’s cloud and AI contracts with Israeli security services, renewed investigative reporting alleging deep technical integrations, and a widening movement of...

File system errors on Windows 10 and Windows 11 can look cryptic — a terse message, an error code, or “The parameter is incorrect” when you plug in a USB stick — but they usually point to fixable problems with system files, disk metadata, or the drive itself. This guide consolidates proven, non‑destructive troubleshooting steps (from quick restarts to offline repairs), explains what the common numeric error codes mean, and offers a prioritized workflow so you stop at the least‑disruptive fix...

Madison’s customer service teams face a fast-moving choice in 2025: treat AI as a risky experiment or as an operational staple that can speed answers, reduce costs, and free people for higher‑value, trust‑dependent work. The practical case for adoption is strong — local pilots and vendor case studies show large reductions in response time and ticket volume, campus‑approved copilots give a low‑risk path for early use, and the tools on this shortlist are the ones most likely to deliver...

Windows 11’s so-called “God Mode” is not a magic key to the operating system’s internals — it’s a pragmatic, little-known shortcut that collects hundreds of Control Panel and administrative tasks into a single folder, and for many power users it has become a daily productivity tool that beats hunting through Settings, nested menus, and search results. Background or Overview The item commonly called God Mode is actually the Windows Master Control Panel shortcut — the “All Tasks” namespace...

Flyoobe 1.3 arrives as a practical — and controversial — answer to a simple problem: millions of otherwise serviceable PCs are blocked from a native Windows 11 upgrade by Microsoft’s hardware gates, and a growing set of community tools now lets users choose whether to accept those limits or work around them. Background / Overview Flyoobe (formerly Flyby11) began life as a focused, lightweight patcher whose only job was to remove the installer checks that block Windows 11 upgrades on machines...

Microsoft’s latest Insider update for Copilot on Windows shifts the app’s interface and search capabilities into a more integrated, AI-first direction — bringing semantic file search to capable machines and a redesigned Copilot home that folds recent apps, files, and conversations into a single hub for on-device assistance. (blogs.windows.com, theverge.com) Background Windows has been steadily folding generative and assistive AI into core desktop workflows, and the Copilot on Windows app is...

Microsoft is quietly testing a new Microsoft Edge feature called Journeys that promises to turn scattered tabs, search history, and browsing activity into tidy, context-aware summaries — and early reports suggest it may be gated behind Microsoft’s Copilot Pro subscription. Background Microsoft’s broader push to fold AI into everything from Windows to Office has accelerated the development of browser-level intelligence. Edge’s recent “Copilot Mode” reimagines the browser as an assistant that...

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Zed’s slow march to a fully supported Windows build has become a cautionary tale about the hidden complexity of cross‑platform development — and a reminder that choosing low‑level, GPU‑accelerated rendering for speed and resource efficiency comes with a higher integration bill on Windows than on macOS or Linux. Background Zed launched its first public beta in March 2023 as a macOS‑only preview, and a Linux build followed in mid‑2024. The team has been working on a Windows port throughout...

I had been ignoring Power Query for years, treating Excel like a calculator with a few handy formulas—until a messy, cross‑vendor CSV pile forced me to learn the tool everyone always brags about. What started as a tedious weekend of copy‑pasting and find‑and‑replace turned into a few well‑chosen Power Query steps that cleaned, standardized, and converted months of price‑tracking data into an instantly usable dataset. The difference was dramatic: a process that used to take hours became a few...

The August 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878) has introduced an unexpected and painful wrinkle for live broadcasters: NDI-based streaming through OBS and other production tools can stutter, lag, and drop frames — even on healthy networks — and Microsoft has acknowledged the issue while recommending an immediate, manual change to NDI’s transport mode as a workaround. Background NDI (Network Device Interface) is a widely used, high‑performance video-over-IP protocol...

Silicon Motion's early reassurance — that “so far, none of our controllers are affected” by the Windows 11 update that has been making some NVMe drives disappear under sustained writes — is an encouraging datapoint, but it is provisional and incomplete: the incident remains an active, cross‑stack investigation involving Microsoft, controller vendors (notably Phison), SSD manufacturers, and community test benches, and the safest posture for users and IT teams remains conservative risk...

Microsoft’s Copilot Labs has quietly added a striking new capability — Copilot 3D, a browser-based experiment that converts a single 2D photo into a downloadable, textured 3D model in GLB format — and with it Microsoft has reintroduced mainstream users to an age-old promise: make 3D creation as easy as uploading an image. Early hands‑on reports and Microsoft’s Labs guidance confirm the essentials of the preview: upload a JPG or PNG (roughly capped at ~10 MB), wait seconds to a minute while...

Microsoft’s Release Candidate 0 for SQL Server 2025 marks a decisive step toward a modern, AI‑first database platform — with official Ubuntu 24.04 support for development and testing, TLS 1.3 enabled by default, and a broad slate of performance and AI features that aim to reshape how enterprises build next‑generation applications. Overview The RC0 preview of SQL Server 2025 is explicitly targeted at development and validation workflows rather than immediate production migrations. Microsoft...

Microsoft has begun testing a new “My apps” tab inside the Xbox PC app for Windows 11 that lets players locate, download, and launch third‑party applications — from browsers and gaming utilities to rival storefronts — without leaving the Xbox experience, a move aimed squarely at improving usability on handheld Windows gaming PCs. (news.xbox.com, theverge.com) Background Microsoft’s long‑running effort to make the Xbox app the central hub for PC gaming has accelerated over the past year. The...