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Microsoft quietly confirmed that after the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (version 1607) it planned two more major feature updates for 2017 — internally codenamed Redstone 2 and Redstone 3 — setting a cadence that would shape Windows 10’s “Windows as a Service” era and push new features through the Windows Insider Program before broad rollout. Background In mid‑2016 Microsoft shipped the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Windows 10, version 1607) and simultaneously published guidance for IT...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) has been tied in independent community testing and aggregation threads to a serious storage regression that can render certain NVMe SSDs inaccessible during large, sustained write operations — and administrators also faced a separate enterprise installation regression (error 0x80240069) that disrupted WSUS/SCCM rollouts. r on August 12, 2025 as a combined servicing stack and cumulative update for Windows 11 version...

Microsoft has quietly changed how the Microsoft Store manages app updates: the once-simple toggle to permanently disable automatic app updates in the Store UI is being removed for many consumer devices, replaced with a time-limited pause option (commonly between one and five weeks) after which automatic updates resume. years the Microsoft Store included a straightforward setting — Update apps automatically — that let users stop Store apps from downloading and installing new versions in the...

Microsoft has announced that Windows PowerShell 2.0 will be removed from Windows starting in August 2025 for Windows 11, version 24H2 and in September 2025 for Windows Server 2025 — a final step in a deprecation that began in 2017 and a change already visible in Windows Insider builds this summer. (support.microsoft.com, bleepingcomputer.com) Background Windows PowerShell 2.0 shipped as the Windows-built PowerShell experience in Windows 7 and became an optional, side‑by‑side compatibility...

Microsoft’s day‑one switch to OpenAI’s GPT‑5 across Copilot, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure AI Foundry represents the most comprehensive AI product overhaul in the company’s history — a coordinated, ecosystem‑wide move that folds a new family of reasoning models into the fabric of everyday productivity and developer workflows while raising immediate questions about trust, governance, and long‑term cost. Background Microsoft’s integration of GPT‑5 is not a single model swap...

Mozilla is changing how Private Browsing handles downloaded files: instead of silently removing certain files when a private window closes, Firefox Nightly is now prompting users and offering a new setting to keep or delete downloads, a behavior expected to land in Firefox 143 if the experiment proceeds as reported. Background For years Firefox’s Private Browsing mode has preserved the basic promise of privacy by clearing session traces — cookies, history, and certain cached data — after...

A California resident has filed suit seeking to force Microsoft to continue issuing free security updates for Windows 10 after the company’s scheduled October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support date, arguing the shutdown amounts to forced obsolescence that steers users into buying Windows 11–capable hardware and Microsoft’s AI‑centric ecosystem. (theregister.com, courthousenews.com) Background Microsoft set a firm deadline: Windows 10 mainstream support ends on October 14, 2025, after which consumer...

The McDuffie Progress lists a community event called Exploring Windows, but the event page could not be retrieved directly; the available record indicates the listing exists but was inaccessible at the time of research, so this feature combines a verified note about the McDuffie Progress listing with a grounded, evidence-based exploration of what an event titled “Exploring Windows” typically offers, why it matters to local users, and the technical topics such a program should cover...

Microsoft has quietly rolled out a practical — if temporary — lifeline for Windows 10 users as the operating system heads to its scheduled end of support: a consumer-friendly Extended Security Updates (ESU) path, an in-place “Enroll” experience via Windows Update, and multiple low-friction enrollment options (including a one-time $30 fee that can cover multiple devices). The move gives millions of users additional time to plan a safe migration to Windows 11 or new hardware, but it is not a...

Microsoft's late-summer move to soften the blow of Windows 10's end-of-support is a rare mix of relief and a reminder: the clock is still running. The company has rolled out a consumer-focused Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that gives many Windows 10 users a one-year security lifeline — and a trio of enrollment routes that include a free path — while simultaneously reinforcing the message that the long-term solution is migration to Windows 11 or a modern cloud PC. This article...

Microsoft has given Windows 10 users a one-year safety net — a broadly accessible Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that keeps crucial security patches flowing after the official end-of-support date, but the offer comes with strings attached and hard choices ahead for millions of PC owners. d of its mainstream lifecycle on October 14, 2025, meaning Microsoft stops delivering routine quality and security updates to Home and Pro editions through the standard update channel on that date...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 — KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) — has been linked by independent testers and enthusiast communities to a reproducible and severe storage fault: under sustained large sequential writes (reports center around the 50 GB range), certain NVMe SSDs—and a small number of HDDs—can become completely unresponsive, disappear from the operating system, and present unreadable SMART data, sometimes resulting in file-system corruption and permanent data loss...

Ricoh Asia Pacific’s internal push to make its workforce “future-ready” — anchored by a week-long, hands-on AI upskilling sprint co-sponsored by Microsoft and Talogy — signals a new phase in how hardware-first vendors are repositioning themselves as platform and services companies that sell outcomes, not just devices. The program, billed as AI Learning Week and running 18–22 August 2025, brings more than a thousand employees across Ricoh’s Asia Pacific operations into role-based labs...

Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows Server 2019, KB5063877 (released August 12, 2025), finally closes out a high‑visibility clustering regression introduced by the July rollout: a Cluster Service failure that caused repeated service restarts, node quarantines and virtual machine reboots in environments using BitLocker‑protected Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). Administrators can deploy the fix through standard channels after ensuring the required servicing‑stack prerequisite is...

Ricoh Asia Pacific has launched a coordinated, region-wide push to make its workforce “future-ready” by embedding AI fluency, Microsoft Copilot adoption, and custom AI agents into everyday operations — a program that crystallizes how hardware and services vendors are pivoting from product sales to workforce transformation. Background Ricoh’s announcement centers on AI Learning Week, a five-day, internal upskilling initiative running 18–22 August 2025 that brings together more than a thousand...

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CVPeople Tanzania has posted a large intake for frontline IT staff: 23 Junior IT Support Technicians to be based at Dar es Salaam airports, with the roles reporting to an Airport IT Supervisor and explicitly tasked with supporting immigration and passenger-enrolment systems. The listing — published on Ajira Yako and linking to CVPeople’s recruiter portal — spells out a practical, on-site support remit (hardware replacement, backups, antivirus, basic network fault-finding), a requirement for...

Microsoft’s August Windows 11 patch cycle has produced two very different but equally alarming headlines this week: an emergency mitigation for enterprise update delivery failures, and community reports that the same cumulative update may be triggering storage devices to become unreadable or disappear during heavy writes — a scenario that can cause irreversible data loss. Forbes first flagged the coverage and community alarm over the update’s fallout. Background / Overview What shipped and...

The Microsoft Modern USB-C Speaker arrived as a tidy, purpose-built solution for a very specific problem: better, clearer audio for hybrid work without the bulk or price of full conference-room kit. It delivers a compact, wired USB-C design with a Teams-centric control layout, dual omni-directional microphones tuned to reduce background noise, and a surprising amount of voice-focused output from a single 50 mm full-range driver — but real-world experience exposes trade-offs that matter to...

Microsoft’s decision to give Windows 10 users a one-year safety net changes the late-life calculus for millions of PCs, and — crucially — it can be obtained without paying the originally advertised per-device fee if you follow Microsoft’s new enrollment paths: sync your PC settings to a Microsoft Account via Windows Backup, redeem Microsoft Rewards points, or pay $30 for a one-time license. (support.microsoft.com, blogs.windows.com) Background Microsoft has long set October 14, 2025 as the...