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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...

Phison has publicly acknowledged the storage failures linked to Microsoft’s August 2025 Windows 11 cumulative updates (identified as KB5063878 and related KB5062660) and says it is investigating the reports with industry partners while controllers that “may have been affected” are under review. Background / Overview Windows Update released an August 2025 cumulative package for Windows 11 (commonly tracked as KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) that was intended to deliver security and quality...

Windows 11 has quietly started to close one of its longest-running visual gaps: file operation dialogs that have stubbornly remained bright in a system-wide dark theme are now appearing in dark mode in Insider preview builds, signaling a broader push to finally finish what dark mode started nearly a decade ago. Background Dark mode has been a prominent user preference since it first arrived for Windows with the Windows 10 era, but the rollout across the platform has always been uneven. For...

Microsoft has issued emergency out‑of‑band updates after a routine August Patch Tuesday rollup left built‑in recovery paths — including Reset this PC, the cloud‑based Fix problems using Windows Update, and management‑initiated RemoteWipe — unable to complete on a range of consumer and enterprise Windows client releases, and administrators should treat these fixes as high priority for affected fleets. Background In the August 2025 Patch Tuesday cycle Microsoft delivered multiple cumulative...

Microsoft’s new Copilot Pages is a notable entry in the rapidly expanding field of AI notes—a simple, writable workspace amplified by generative models that aims to make research, study and creative projects feel less like data wrangling and more like conversation-driven composition. Early hands-on testing shows Copilot Pages is cleaner and more flexible than Google’s NotebookLM in day-to-day use, but it also exposes the same trade-offs that define today’s AI productivity tools: convenience...

Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday set off a chain reaction: the security update that fixed scores of vulnerabilities also broke Windows' own recovery tools for many users, and Microsoft was forced to ship out-of-band (OOB) emergency patches to undo the damage. The recovery failure — which could abort a "Reset this PC" operation or a cloud-based reinstall and roll Windows back to its previous state — affected a wide range of client platforms, left administrators juggling WSUS and SCCM install...

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday has gone from a routine security maintenance window to an operational headache for administrators and home users alike, as the August 12, 2025 rollups introduced a pair of serious regressions — first a storage regression that could make some SSDs disappear under heavy writes, and then a separate bug that broke built‑in Reset and recovery workflows — forcing Redmond to ship emergency out‑of‑band updates to repair the damage. Background and overview Microsoft...

Microsoft’s August cumulative update has sidelined one of Windows’ most important safety nets: Reset and recovery flows that let users refresh, reinstall, or remotely wipe machines now fail on multiple client builds after the Patch Tuesday rollup, and Microsoft has shipped emergency out‑of‑band patches to repair the break. Background / Overview On August 12, 2025 Microsoft shipped its monthly Patch Tuesday cumulative updates for multiple Windows client servicing families; within days...

Microsoft is preparing a substantial set of Windows 11 feature updates that start arriving in staged preview channels now and should reach general users in the weeks ahead, bringing a mix of practical quality‑of‑life fixes, broader UI polish and an expanded set of AI-driven tools—some of which will remain gated to Copilot+ hardware and paid services while others will be available to everyone. Background Microsoft’s release cadence for Windows 11 since the 24H2 update has moved toward...

The Lenovo ThinkStation P5 is a compact, mid‑range tower workstation built around Intel’s Xeon W‑2400/W‑2500 family that balances serious multi‑core CPU throughput, generous I/O and expansion, and a tightly engineered internal layout—delivering a professional workstation package that targets CAD, content creation, and engineering users who need workstation‑class GPUs without moving to a rack or full server chassis. Background The ThinkStation P5 sits squarely in Lenovo’s professional line as...

Microsoft’s 12‑month reprieve for Windows 10 users has changed the migration math — and not in Microsoft’s favor; what looked like a steady march to Windows 11 has stalled, leaving most Windows users once again facing an urgent upgrade decision with security, cost, and hardware implications that demand clear, immediate action. Background Microsoft set a firm lifecycle date for Windows 10: mainstream updates were scheduled to end in mid‑October 2025, a hard deadline that had been the driving...