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Microsoft has quietly acknowledged a serious disruption in core Windows recovery flows and pushed emergency, out‑of‑band (OOB) updates after the August 2025 Patch Tuesday rollups left some systems unable to complete “Reset this PC,” cloud re‑image operations, and certain remote wipe jobs — and, separately, community testing and vendor telemetry raised alarms that an August cumulative may destabilize some SSDs during large, sustained writes. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped its regular...

Microsoft may have declared Windows 10 “feature-complete” years ago, but the evidence on the ground tells a different story: the OS is still receiving meaningful tweaks, UI roll‑outs, and policy-driven changes that affect everyday users and enterprises alike. What started as small, cumulative updates has matured into a steady stream of refinements — from a redesigned About page that finally surfaces GPU details to EU-mandated default browser behaviour and a one‑click path to extended...

The University of Manchester is telling staff and students to arrange their Windows 11 upgrade as soon as possible because Microsoft will end support for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025, and continuing to run an unsupported OS will expose campus machines to increased cyber risk. Background / Overview Microsoft has announced a firm end‑of‑support date for Windows 10: October 14, 2025. After that date Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, feature updates, or routine technical...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows has taken another step toward becoming the primary way people find and act on files and apps in Windows 11, with a staged Insider rollout that adds semantic, natural‑language file and image search and a redesigned Copilot home — features gated initially to certified Copilot+ PCs and distributed through the Microsoft Store to Windows Insiders. Background Microsoft’s Copilot effort has evolved from an optional sidebar assistant into a system-level AI layer in...

A recent hands‑on experiment that tried to replace Microsoft Copilot’s web‑page summarization with a fully local stack — Ollama running local models and the Page Assist browser sidebar — ended with a clear, practical verdict: Copilot still delivers the faster, more polished experience for everyday web summarization, while the local alternative shows huge promise but remains a work in progress. The test highlights two competing trends in the AI‑assisted browsing space: the convenience and...

Microsoft has officially moved Copilot from a marketing talking point into the operational fabric of professional football: a multiyear extension with the NFL announced on August 20, 2025 upgrades the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot‑enabled Surface Copilot+ devices, embeds Azure AI into scouting workflows and the Combine, and introduces Copilot‑driven dashboards across game‑day operations and club business systems. Background / Overview For more than a decade Microsoft Surface...

Microsoft’s relative valuation and operating footprint in the software industry make it both a growth story and a cautionary tale—its scale and profitability set a high bar, but automated industry snapshots can understate or misstate the scale and risks that matter to investors and IT leaders today. rview Microsoft is organized around three broad business segments—Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing—a structure that blends legacy franchises...

In a volatile escalation of employee activism and public scrutiny, 18 people were arrested at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington, campus on August 20, 2025, after demonstrators — including current and former Microsoft staff — splashed red paint on the company’s signage, set up an encampment on campus grounds, and resisted police orders to leave. The arrests follow weeks of worker-led protests demanding that Microsoft sever or drastically restrict its cloud and AI contracts with the Israeli...

Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, and the legacy app will be left in a read‑only state — users will still be able to view notebooks but will no longer be able to edit, sync, or receive updates from that client after the cutoff. Background OneNote has existed on Windows in multiple forms for years: the original desktop OneNote (the Office/Win32 package), the UWP‑style OneNote for Windows 10 (shipped as the in‑box app and...

Resetting a Windows 11 laptop is one of the most effective ways to cure persistent slowdowns, resolve software corruption, and prepare a device for resale — and the process is now flexible enough to preserve personal files, wipe everything, or fetch a fresh copy of Windows from the cloud. The practical guide circulating from Techloy lays out the basic clicks — Settings > System > Recovery > Reset this PC — and explains the two big choices (keep your files or remove everything) plus the...

The University of Southampton’s recent job listing for an Upgrade Coordinator on its Windows 11 programme places a practical, user-facing role at the centre of what will be one of the university’s most visible IT change programmes in years: replacing or upgrading thousands of campus devices to meet Windows 11 hardware and security requirements while keeping teaching, research and administrative continuity intact. The role combines customer-facing scheduling and follow-up with day-to-day...

Microsoft has confirmed an emergency out‑of‑band (OOB) Windows update after August’s Patch Tuesday rollup caused built‑in recovery tools — Reset this PC, the cloud reimage flow Fix problems using Windows Update, and MDM‑initiated RemoteWipe CSP — to fail on multiple client branches, and independent reporting shows a concurrent, separate problem: a storage anomaly causing some SSDs to disappear or present as RAW during heavy writes. The vendor pushed targeted OOB packages on August 19, 2025...

Microsoft’s cloud productivity stack stumbled this week when users across North America reported problems accessing Office.com and the Copilot assistant; Microsoft confirmed a critical incident (MO1138499), investigated telemetry and network traces, and mitigated the disruption by reverting a recently deployed configuration change — although at least one outlet’s claim that the rollback targeted update KB5038575 cannot be independently verified from Microsoft’s public postings...

Microsoft has temporarily paused the roll‑out of recent Windows updates after a cascade of high‑impact problems—including broken recovery tools, WSUS installation failures, and reports of storage devices becoming inaccessible—hit a subset of users and enterprise environments nationwide. Background In the Windows update cycle that began on August 12, 2025, Microsoft shipped cumulative updates and servicing stack updates intended to address security and stability for multiple client platforms...

Microsoft has begun expanding a staged Insider preview that brings semantic file search to Copilot+ PCs and ships a redesigned Copilot home inside the Copilot app for Windows Insiders, packaging natural‑language file and image discovery alongside a new, context‑aware workspace that surfaces recent apps, files, and Vision‑driven guided help. rgy has steadily moved from a sidebar assistant toward a deeper, system‑level AI layer in Windows. The latest Copilot app update (marked as version...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update for Windows 11 is quietly expanding the assistant’s remit from a sidebar helper into a more capable, context-aware productivity hub by testing AI-powered semantic file and image search inside the Copilot app and a redesigned Copilot home that pairs recent activity with Vision-driven guided help. Early previews in the Windows Insider channel show the feature is gated to Copilot+ PCs for now and is being distributed as a staged rollout, but the changes point...

Microsoft has made the Model Context Protocol (MCP) a first‑class citizen in Visual Studio, shipping general availability support that lets Copilot Chat and other agentic features connect to local or remote MCP servers via a simple .mcp.json configuration — a major convenience for developers that also reopens a complex set of security and governance questions for enterprises. Background / Overview MCP is an open protocol, introduced by Anthropic, that standardises how AI agents discover and...

Azure Linux 3.0 has arrived and — quietly, deliberately — Microsoft has folded a modern, hardened, cloud-native Linux into the backbone of AKS, WSL, and a growing set of Azure services, shipping a new kernel, updated runtimes, multi-architecture builds and closer integration with cloud-native tooling that matters to container and Kubernetes operators. Background Microsoft’s internal Linux experiment, originally published as CBL‑Mariner, was designed to be a small, auditable, and maintainable...

Brave’s privacy-first stance is the clearest example in the modern browser market of a company that has deliberately reshaped a Chromium base into a purpose-built, privacy-forward product — and in 2025 it remains one of the strongest choices when privacy and defensive defaults are your top priorities. Background / Overview Brave began as a reaction to mainstream browser models that monetize attention through tracking and profiling. Today the project combines a hardened Chromium core with a...

When a Windows PC that once booted and responded instantly starts stuttering, the instinctive answers are a fresh reinstall or a hardware upgrade — but sometimes the culprit is far less dramatic: background services quietly consuming CPU, disk I/O, or network bandwidth. A short, targeted change — limiting or turning off Windows Search indexing and, for some users, preventing the Windows Update Medic Service (WaaSMedicSvc) from constantly reasserting Windows Update — can deliver a strikingly...