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Acer Africa is dangling a free Android tablet to shoppers who buy select AI‑ready Windows 11 laptops as Microsoft’s Windows 10 end‑of‑support deadline approaches on October 14, 2025, a move that spotlights how OEM promotions and AI‑first marketing are shaping upgrade decision-making in South Africa right now. Background Microsoft’s public lifecycle calendar confirms that Windows 10 will stop receiving security updates and technical support on October 14, 2025, leaving devices that do not...

Microsoft’s extra one‑year grace period doesn’t change the harsh reality: millions of perfectly usable PCs will soon be locked out of the official Windows 11 upgrade unless owners either accept unsupported hacks or invest in small—but sometimes nontrivial—hardware changes. Background: the deadline, the extension, and what it means Microsoft’s official end‑of‑support date for Windows 10 remains October 14, 2025, but the company has offered a short consumer Extended Security Update (ESU) route...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) has been tied by community testers and a handful of technology outlets to a reproducible storage regression: under sustained, large sequential write workloads some NVMe SSDs can stop responding, disappear from the operating system, and — in a minority of reports — return unreadable SMART/controller telemetry or show file corruption after reboot. This article summarizes the BornCity coverage of the incident...

Microsoft has pushed a targeted rollback and policy fixes to repair a Windows Update Standalone Installer (WUSA) regression that could break .msu installations when run from network shares and disrupt enterprise update pipelines that rely on WSUS, SCCM, or scripted WUSA deployment. d delivery and installation paths for updates, and each path exercises slightly different code paths inside the Windows Update stack. The Windows Update Standalone Installer (WUSA) is a built‑in utility for...

Microsoft’s staggered Windows 11 24H2 rollout has tripped a serious compatibility landmine: scattered but reproducible reports show that one recent cumulative update can cause some NVMe SSDs to become unresponsive or vanish during sustained large writes, and earlier instances of the 24H2 feature update also produced BSODs for certain Western Digital drives. The practical result for affected users has ranged from repeated Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) crashes to drives temporarily disappearing...

TrustedTech’s move from a licensing-focused reseller to a full-spectrum Microsoft cloud and AI services partner marks a deliberate pivot into higher‑value professional services, signalling ambitions to capture demand for Copilot deployments, Azure migrations, and enterprise managed security—an evolution the company says is backed by elevated Microsoft partner credentials and rapid internal growth. Background TrustedTech, the firm formerly trading as Trusted Tech Team, has announced a formal...

CVPeople Tanzania’s mid‑August job posting for a Junior Software Developer signals a focused hiring need inside the company’s Network Operations Center (NOC) for work tied to immigration and biometric systems — an entry‑level technical role with NOC shift duties, exposure to Automated Biometric Identification Systems (ABIS), and a clear operational emphasis on uptime, troubleshooting, and secure handling of identity‑sensitive systems. Background / Overview Tanzania’s airports have already...

Microsoft confirmed that five titles will leave Xbox Game Pass at the end of August, with Borderlands 3 Ultimate Edition and Sea of Stars among the most notable removals — players have until August 31 to finish, download, or buy these games before they disappear from the service. Background Xbox Game Pass has become a defining product for Microsoft’s gaming strategy: a rotating library that mixes day-one releases, first‑party exclusives, indie darlings, and licensed third‑party games. That...

EA and DICE have rolled out a surprise, content-heavy patch for Battlefield 2042 — Update 9.2.0 — that drops a reimagined Iwo Jima map, a free 60-tier Battle Pass running from August 18 to October 7, new weapons and vehicles, and a broad set of gameplay and balance changes designed to reshape vehicle roles and give players fresh progression ahead of Battlefield 6’s launch. Background Battlefield 2042 shipped as a futuristic, large-scale multiplayer experience and has evolved through a long...

Microsoft Teams is getting a tighter security posture: Microsoft is rolling out new protections that will block weaponizable file types in chats and channels, scan and warn about malicious URLs at the time of delivery and click, and extend administrative control by integrating Teams with the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Tenant Allow/Block List—changes designed to reduce malware, phishing, and lateral attack surface inside Teams. Background Microsoft Teams is no longer just a...

Windows 11’s built‑in antivirus, Microsoft Defender, is normally updated automatically through Windows Update — but when that pipeline falters, administrators and power users must know how to update Defender manually, safely, and at scale to avoid windows of exposure that attackers will happily exploit. Background / Overview Microsoft delivers Defender protection in two parts: rapidly refreshed security intelligence (definition) updates and monthly platform/engine updates. Security...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) has been tied by multiple independent community tests and tech outlets to a serious storage regression: under sustained, large sequential writes some SSDs can stop responding, disappear from Windows, and — in a minority of reports — remain inaccessible after a reboot, potentially exposing written files to corruption or loss. (support.microsoft.com, notebookcheck.net, guru3d.com) Background / Overview Microsoft...

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...