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Microsoft has moved a generative AI assistant from the sidebar into the spreadsheet grid itself: the new COPILOT function turns plain‑English prompts into live Excel formulas and structured outputs that behave like any other formula in your workbook. Background / Overview Excel’s power has always come from its ability to turn human intent into deterministic calculations, but that power has a steep learning curve. Nested functions, array behavior, and text parsing trip up even experienced...

The Git project has shipped version 2.51, a substantial maintenance-and-performance release that packs several storage-layer improvements aimed squarely at large repositories and monorepos, a new on-disk stash interchange format that finally makes stashes portable between machines, and foundational work that edges Git closer to the long-planned Git 3.0 changes (reftable, SHA‑256). For Windows developers and administrators, the release also includes fixes and defaults that reduce...

The NFL’s long-running technology relationship with Microsoft has entered an explicitly AI-first phase: a multiyear extension announced on August 20, 2025, brings Copilot-powered assistants to coaches’ Surface tablets, expands Azure cloud infrastructure inside stadiums, and folds generative AI into scouting and broadcast workflows—while the league publicly reins in any move toward autonomous play-calling. Background From Surface tablets to AI copilots The Microsoft–NFL partnership is not...

Microsoft has quietly issued a set of emergency, out‑of‑band patches to fix a serious regression introduced by the August 2025 security updates that broke Windows’ built‑in recovery tools — including the widely used Reset this PC workflow — and caused some upgrade attempts to fail with error 0x8007007F. These fix‑only updates (KB5066189, KB5066188, and KB5066187) are available now via Windows Update as optional downloads for affected Windows 11 and Windows 10 channels and are intended to be...

Enterprises across India are accelerating PC refresh cycles, driven by a near-term deadline and a new generation of machines built for on-device AI: demand for business laptops is surging as organizations prepare for the end of Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025 and push to acquire AI-ready notebooks that ship with integrated neural processors and other modern security features. Background India’s PC market has moved from slow recovery into a coordinated growth phase in 2025, but the...

Microsoft and SSD vendors have opened an investigation after multiple independent testers and users reported that the August 12, 2025 Windows 11 cumulative update (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can cause some NVMe and SATA drives to stop responding, vanish from the operating system, and — in a smaller number of cases — return with corrupted or inaccessible data following sustained, heavy write activity. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) on August 12...

Microsoft has issued an emergency out‑of‑band update to repair a high‑impact regression introduced by the August Patch Tuesday rollup that left Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery tools unable to complete on many client devices. id‑August Microsoft shipped its regular Patch Tuesday cumulative updates. Within days, administrators and consumers reported that invoking Settings → System → Recovery → Reset this PC, using the cloud reinstall flow (“Fix problems using Windows Update”), or...

Microsoft’s latest round of Start menu experiments surfaces a familiar irritation: Microsoft is testing a Copilot recommendation in the Start menu’s Recommended area that functions — for all practical purposes — as another nudge to use Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot from inside Windows 11. Background Windows 11’s Start menu has evolved into a mixed-purpose surface: part launcher, part discovery pane and, increasingly, part product promotion channel. Recent preview builds have introduced a...

Kansas City legal professionals who postpone practical, governed adoption of AI in 2025 risk ceding measurable efficiency gains to competitors — but adoption must be paired with concise policies, hands‑on pilots, and documented ethics training to manage confidentiality, discoverability, and IP risk. Background / Overview Artificial intelligence in legal practice is no longer academic: by 2024 and into 2025 multiple industry surveys and local bar programming show that lawyers are actively...

Microsoft’s expanded deal with the NFL is not a simple renewal — it’s an explicit push to fold generative AI and cloud-first tools deeper into the game-day workflow, from the sideline to scouting rooms and front-office operations. Background The partnership between Microsoft and the NFL dates back more than a decade, when the league adopted custom Microsoft Surface tablets as its official sideline devices. Those ruggedized Surfaces replaced paper playbooks and quickly became an instantly...

The NFL and Microsoft have quietly but decisively upgraded a long-standing relationship, shifting the league’s sideline tools from digital scoreboards and static playbooks to AI-assisted decision support — a multiyear extension that folds Microsoft’s Copilot and Azure AI capabilities into Surface tablets, scouting apps, and stadium operations in ways that will change how coaches, scouts, and fans consume real-time football information. Background Microsoft and the NFL have worked together...

Microsoft employees have erected a sustained sit‑in on the company’s Redmond campus, transforming a simmering internal dispute over Israel‑linked contracts into a high‑visibility standoff that raises fundamental questions about cloud ethics, corporate accountability, and the limits of vendor oversight in sovereign deployments. s a wave of employee dissent over Microsoft’s commercial relationships and technical work with Israeli government and defense customers. Activists organized under...

The Windows 11 Desktop in the 25H2 era is familiar territory with a careful polish: it behaves like Windows 10’s Desktop in the essentials, but Microsoft has refreshed iconography, simplified the right‑click context menus, added a daily Windows Spotlight wallpaper with a “Learn about this picture” affordance, and left sensible defaults designed for a cleaner first‑run experience. This piece summarizes the practical changes documented in the recent coverage, verifies the technical details...

Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service is officially being discussed as a candidate for a lower‑cost, more widely available tier — possibly ad‑supported — even as Microsoft simultaneously pushes forward on next‑generation hardware, AI features, and a deeper partnership with AMD that will shape both cloud and console experiences. Background / Overview Xbox Cloud Gaming (commonly called xCloud) is today bundled inside Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, the all‑in one subscription that also includes...

Phison has warned customers that a circulated document purporting to come from the company — and claiming the recent Windows 11 security updates were uniquely breaking Phison-based SSDs — is a falsified communication, and the controller vendor says it is pursuing appropriate legal action while concurrently investigating the broader Windows 11 storage regression with Microsoft and its partners. Background / Overview The immediate technical concern began after Microsoft shipped its August 2025...

The ThinkStation P5 is at once familiar and a little maddening: a sharply styled, serviceable Intel Xeon workstation that delivers strong mid‑range pro performance, but also exposes a few puzzling platform and procurement choices that matter to IT buyers and creatives alike. In hands‑on testing the P5 pairs Intel Xeon W silicon with modern PCIe headroom, ECC memory capacity, and a compact, tool‑less chassis — yet power, acoustics, and an odd Windows 11 Pro for Workstations licensing wrinkle...

Microsoft has confirmed that August’s Patch Tuesday rollup introduced a regression that broke Windows’ built‑in recovery flows — including Reset this PC, the cloud-based Fix problems using Windows Update, and management‑initiated RemoteWipe — and shipped out-of-band emergency fixes days later to restore those last‑resort tools. Background / Overview The August 12, 2025 Patch Tuesday bundle delivered the usual mix of security and quality updates across Windows 10 and Windows 11 servicing...

Microsoft has pushed generative AI squarely into the heart of Excel with a native =COPILOT(... formula that lets users type natural‑language prompts directly into cells, reference worksheet ranges for context, and receive live, spillable AI outputs that recalculate automatically as the source data changes. Background Microsoft’s COPILOT function is introduced as part of the Microsoft 365 Copilot program and is rolling out first to Insider/Beta Channel users on desktop Excel for Windows and...

Microsoft’s recent clarification of what lands on Windows Insider PCs finally turns the opaque mess of KB numbers and build strings into a readable taxonomy — but the reality behind those labels still matters for anyone who tests, manages, or depends on preview builds. The company’s guidance groups Insider updates into Feature, Quality, Driver, Security, and Servicing updates, explains how these packages are surfaced in Settings > Windows Update > Update history, and points Insiders toward...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) has been linked by multiple community tests and specialist outlets to a narrow but severe storage regression in which some NVMe SSDs can suddenly become unresponsive or disappear during sustained, large writes — a failure mode that can leave files truncated, partitions inaccessible, or in a small number of reports, drives unrecoverable. Background Microsoft shipped KB5063878 (a combined Servicing Stack Update and...