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TrustedTech’s rebrand marks a decisive pivot from licensing reseller to full-spectrum Microsoft cloud and AI partner, positioning the firm to chase larger enterprise engagements and the booming market for Microsoft Copilot, Azure migrations, and managed security services. Background / Overview TrustedTech, the company previously known as Trusted Tech Team, has announced a formal rebrand alongside a widened services portfolio and an elevated relationship with Microsoft. The firm frames the...

Microsoft has selected Marvell’s LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs) to power its Azure Cloud HSM offering — a move that consolidates Marvell’s role across Azure’s key management portfolio and brings FIPS 140‑3 Level 3‑certified, high‑density PCIe HSMs into Microsoft’s single‑tenant cloud HSM clusters. (prnewswire.com, investor.marvell.com) Background Azure Cloud HSM is Microsoft’s single‑tenant, highly available HSM service that gives customers complete administrative...

Microsoft’s design teams have quietly filed a patent for a foldable mobile device that embeds a Surface Pro–style kickstand into the hinge-backed frame — a mechanical scheme that would let a two‑panel foldable both pop open with one hand and sit stably on a desk like a tiny Surface PC. The patent family (international and U.S. filings) describes a sliding kickstand assembly built into — or attachable to — the backplate of one frame, magnets and ramps that automatically deploy the lower...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) shipped with security fixes — and within days the patch was linked to two very different reliability problems: an enterprise deployment failure that produced WSUS/SCCM install errors, and a separate cluster of community‑reproduced reports showing storage devices vanishing during sustained large writes, with an attendant risk of file corruption and data loss. Overview Microsoft released KB5063878 for Windows 11...

Microsoft's File Explorer is getting a practical, productivity-focused facelift that pushes more commands and AI into the surface users already interact with — hover-activated quick-action buttons for Home items, an experimental AI Actions menu and deeper Copilot integration — even as the app continues to battle performance quirks and hardware compatibility headaches that make cautious rollout and staged deployments essential for IT teams and power users alike. c File Explorer has been a...

Microsoft’s public push to marry artificial intelligence, edge computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT) has moved from concept to catalogue: Azure IoT Edge runtime, Azure Sphere, Azure Digital Twins and a string of enterprise pilots show a deliberate strategy to make IoT development faster, safer, and more directly tied to cloud intelligence—while also signaling where Microsoft believes the greatest growth and technical value will come from in the next wave of connected systems...

After years of half-finished theming, Windows 11 is finally showing concrete signs that Dark Mode will stop being a patchwork: recent Insider preview builds include dark-themed file-operation dialogs (copy/move progress, delete confirmations, and certain access‑denied prompts) that previously shattered a dark session with sudden white popups. This change — visible inside Build 26100.5061 and follow-up test flights — was first highlighted by community testers and observers and is reflected in...

Microsoft has formally warned Windows 10 users to act before official support ends on October 14, 2025, a deadline that will stop monthly security updates for mainstream Windows 10 editions and leave devices exposed unless users upgrade or enroll in the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that provides a one‑year security-only bridge through October 13, 2026. Background Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar for Windows 10 is now fixed: October 14, 2025 is the end-of-support date for...

Microsoft has quietly begun to close one of Windows 11’s most persistent UX gaps by rolling dark-themed treatments into legacy file‑operation dialogs in recent Insider preview builds — a staged change visible in Build 26100.5061 (KB5064081) and follow-up test flights that reduces the infamous white “flash” users have complained about for years. ows introduced a system Dark Mode years ago, but the experience has always been patchy: modern, WinUI-based surfaces (Settings, Start, many Store...

Three persistent beliefs about Windows security still shape decisions in 2025 — that you must pay for antivirus, that Microsoft Defender is a catch‑all shield, and that staying on Windows 10 is safe for years to come — and each is misleading in ways that matter for risk, cost, and practical defense. The original VOI.ID summary of a MakeUseOf roundup names those three myths and urges readers to update their mental models; that piece is a useful prompt but needs context, verification, and a...

Google’s recent code-level traces for a device codenamed Nocturne have rekindled talk of a Chrome OS tablet that could—under certain conditions—run Windows 10, a possibility that would mark one of the most surprising cross-platform experiments between a major silicon/OS ecosystem and the dominant desktop platform. The evidence so far is fragmentary: a Chromium/Chrome OS commit referencing “Nocturne” and an explicit developer note that “Windows 10 will BSOD early during boot” — language that...

TweakNow has quietly entered the automatic theme arena with AutoDark 1.0, a free, Windows 11–focused utility that promises one thing and one thing only: reliably switch Windows between light and dark mode on a schedule, optionally sync wallpapers, and avoid interrupting full‑screen apps or games. Background Windows has supported a light and a dark theme for several releases, but native scheduling for theme changes has long been limited or awkward to configure. Enthusiast and open‑source...

Microsoft appears to be adding hover-activated quick-action buttons to File Explorer in Windows 11, putting commonly used commands — including Open file location, Ask Copilot, and a More actions (three-dot) menu — one mouse movement away on the Home page and in Recent/Favorites/Shared lists, a change first spotted in a tip and preview screenshot shared by a longtime Windows watcher. Background File Explorer has undergone a steady stream of incremental updates across recent Windows 11 builds...

The UK government has announced a national programme to trial agentic AI across public services, inviting frontier AI labs to work with Whitehall teams to build prototypes that could automate routine “life admin” — from filling forms and booking appointments to tailored careers and apprenticeship advice — with a potential nationwide rollout by late 2027 if pilots prove safe and effective. This initiative, set out in the AI Opportunities Action Plan and reflected across government playbooks...

Indian‑origin Microsoft engineer Ritvika Nagula’s account of earning four promotions in five years has become a practical primer for career acceleration inside big tech: explicit goals, frequent manager check‑ins, mapping to internal role rubrics, and volunteering for end‑to‑end projects — a repeatable playbook she credits for rapid advancement at Microsoft Azure. Background Ritvika Nagula joined Microsoft’s Azure division in April 2019 as a fresh graduate and—after a first year spent...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview activity finally delivers a visible step toward the system‑wide dark theme Windows users have been asking for: file operation dialogs — the long‑standing “flashbang” offenders that forced bright white popups in Dark Mode — are now rendering in dark palettes in the newest preview build, but the work is partial, staged, and still needs significant polish before it can be called complete. (blogs.windows.com, windowscentral.com) Background Windows added a...

I’ve been a Windows user for decades, certified and salaried in its administration, and I still find myself reluctantly staying on the platform while privately resenting much of what it has become. The piece forwarded here — a veteran Windows writer admitting he’s “staying on Windows, but I’m not happy about it” — is honest and blunt: long familiarity and productivity keep him tethered, but repeated breakage, mediocre built-in apps, slow or flaky file search and file management, and...

Microsoft has quietly begun to fix one of Windows 11’s most persistent frictions: the sudden, blinding white dialogs that have long broken the illusion of a system-wide Dark Mode. Recent Insider preview builds include dark-themed file-operation dialogs — copy/move progress windows, delete confirmations and access-denied prompts — a cosmetic but meaningful change that reduces the “flashbang” effect users have complained about for years. Background Windows first offered a user-selectable dark...

Microsoft has quietly changed the Microsoft Store’s update model: the long-standing, user-facing toggle to permanently disable automatic app updates now appears to be replaced on many consumer devices by a limited pause-only option that forces automatic updates to resume after a fixed interval (commonly one through five weeks). Background / Overview For years, Windows users who installed apps from the Microsoft Store relied on a simple Settings toggle — Update apps automatically — to keep...

A serious storage regression tied to Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows 11 — KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) — has surfaced in the wild: users and independent testers report that sustained, large file writes can cause some NVMe SSDs to stop responding, disappear from Windows, and in a subset of reports leave written files corrupted or partitions inaccessible. The problem is being discussed across specialist outlets and community channels, and the early evidence points to a...