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Microsoft's decision to collapse volume-based price bands for Online Services under Enterprise Agreements into a single, web‑published price is a major commercial shift that will simplify licensing but almost certainly raise bills for many organizations — and reshape how enterprises, partners, and public bodies buy Microsoft cloud services. (microsoft.com, cxtoday.com) Background Microsoft's licensing universe has long relied on a "waterfall" of price levels — traditionally labelled Price...

Adesso’s new EasyTouch lineup lands as a pragmatic attempt to marry ergonomics with AI-first productivity—two of the clearest trends shaping PC peripherals in 2025—by shipping affordable mechanical keyboards with tactile Brown switches and a dedicated Microsoft Copilot hotkey on select models. Background Adesso’s EasyTouch family expands the company’s long-running roster of productivity-focused peripherals with two compact, pragmatic mechanical keyboards: the EasyTouch 130 and the EasyTouch...

HGF has begun a major overhaul of its data estate, choosing Microsoft Fabric as the technical foundation and Microsoft Power BI for reporting, with Simpson Associates engaged to lead platform design, implementation and dashboard delivery—a move that aims to replace fragmented legacy reporting, speed insight to decision-makers, and provide a governed, future‑proof data platform for a fast-growing European IP firm. Background HGF is one of Europe’s larger intellectual property practices...

Microsoft’s decision to lock Windows 11 behind a strict hardware gate is about to create a mass of usable-but-unsupported PCs — and the fallout will be technical, financial, and environmental. Background When Microsoft first announced Windows 11, the company framed the new release as a leap forward in security and modern platform design. That shift came with a hard line: only devices meeting a new baseline — including TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, and an approved list of modern processors — would be...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Release Preview build packs another wave of AI features — but the single addition many users want most is still gated behind Copilot+ hardware, and that restriction exposes the wider tensions in Microsoft’s AI-first roadmap for the OS. Background Windows Insider testers in the Release Preview channel received Build 26100.5061 (KB5064081) on August 14, 2025. The release documents a mix of gradual-rollout features and normal-rollout fixes, with several AI...

Lenovo’s decision to ship the Legion Go S with SteamOS has done more than change an operating system — it remade the handheld into a lean, game-first machine that convinced at least one reviewer they no longer miss their Windows PC for portable play. The swap from a full Windows 11 environment to Valve’s lightweight, controller-centric SteamOS streamlines the interface, reduces background overhead, and, in real-world use, noticeably improves responsiveness and battery consistency — turning...

Microsoft’s Copilot is now linking local review stars in its AI local cards directly to Google Maps business profiles — a surprising routing choice that was first spotlighted on X by SEO consultant Nathan Gotch and summarized by Search Engine Roundtable, and quickly replicated by others testing Copilot’s local “near me” queries. Background / Overview Microsoft has spent the last two years folding increasingly capable AI into search, rebranding Bing Chat as Microsoft Copilot and layering map...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 rules for hardware are simple on paper but brutal in practice: you need a 64‑bit CPU on Microsoft’s approved list, UEFI with Secure Boot, and TPM 2.0 — and if your PC falls short the fix can be either trivial (flip a firmware switch) or large (new CPU + motherboard). Many otherwise perfectly usable machines will be unable to upgrade without some hardware change, but for a large subset the change is small and inexpensive: enable firmware TPM/PTT/fTPM, turn on Secure...

GitHub Spark plus Codespaces now makes it practical to generate a modern single‑page application (SPA) and deploy it directly into Microsoft Power Pages using the Power Platform CLI — a workflow that compresses days of setup into a few web-driven steps while keeping the final code and deployment under enterprise governance. Background / Overview Power Pages historically targeted low‑code portals and business-facing websites; recent additions introduce native support for React‑based...

Microsoft’s next big Windows chapter has become as much about how the company ships features as what it ships — and that makes separating fact from fiction around “Windows 12” more important than ever. The article you supplied lays out the mainstream rumors: a cleaner UI with deeper AI at its core, a push for cloud-first features, new Copilot-driven tools and “Copilot+” hardware with NPUs, and a likely release window in late 2025. Those points are an accurate reflection of the current public...

On July 29, 2025, a sudden capacity shortfall in Microsoft Azure’s East US region prevented many customers from creating or starting virtual machines — an event that exposed a blunt reality: public cloud elasticity has practical, physical limits, and “infinite” capacity is a marketing convenience, not an operational guarantee. Administrators saw allocation failures, automatic retries didn’t always succeed, and while Microsoft reported the incident as resolved the following week, many teams...

Capgemini’s delivery of SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure for ProRail marks a compact, pragmatic leap for the Dutch rail infrastructure body — a fast, cloud-first ERP modernization that promises improved user experience, greater scalability, and a platform for continued digital transformation while also exposing the organisation to well-known migration and operating risks that demand disciplined governance and change management. Background ProRail is the Dutch network manager charged with...

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q.beyond has quietly moved from being a competent German IT service provider to one of the more visible European players shaping how small and mid-sized enterprises adopt generative AI — launching a local, sovereign AI platform, shipping a targeted Copilot plugin, and securing top-tier recognition from Microsoft’s Copilot partner programme in a span of months. Background q.beyond AG is a Cologne-based IT services group that supports digital transformation for SMEs with an emphasis on cloud...

Google Cloud’s strong showing in a recent South Africa–focused survey has renewed the debate about where enterprise cloud momentum is actually flowing, but the headline — that Google Cloud “beats” Azure and AWS — needs careful qualification and context before it’s treated as a global verdict. Background / Overview Analytico’s 2025 Business Technology Survey — reported locally by MyBroadband — asked 1,348 South African business ICT decision-makers which cloud provider they preferred. The...

Lenovo's decision to ship the Legion Go S with SteamOS rather than Windows turns what was a competent handheld into a focused, streamlined gaming device — one that, in everyday use, makes the compromises of a full Windows install feel unnecessary for many players. Background SteamOS started life as Valve's answer to a console-like PC experience: a Linux-based, gaming-first operating system designed around the Steam client and Proton compatibility. Over time it evolved from an experiment on...

Headline: When the Chamber Teaches AI: What Logansport’s Workshop Means for Small Businesses Deck: On Aug. 15, 2025 the Logansport Cass County Chamber of Commerce packed a room for an introductory AI workshop. That turnout — and the questions that followed — shows small and medium businesses are ready to move from curiosity to practical adoption. Here’s a clear, hands‑on guide for local business leaders on what to do next. Lede On August 15, 2025 the Pharos‑Tribune reported that the...

Microsoft has issued a fresh, time‑sensitive reminder: multiple Windows releases are reaching the ends of their servicing windows within the next few months, and the transition clock is now counting down in plain dates — not vague warnings. For millions of Home, Pro, Enterprise, Education and IoT customers the hard cutoffs are concrete: Windows 10, version 22H2 will stop receiving security and feature updates on October 14, 2025, and various editions of Windows 11 (notably the 22H2 branch...

Independence Day 2025 will be different this year for people who prefer to send bespoke wishes instead of forwarding the same old WhatsApp sticker packs: free AI tools now let you create custom GIFs, images and short videos in minutes — and the quick how‑to that ran on Digit.in summarises the simplest route: use Meta AI inside WhatsApp/Instagram/Facebook, Microsoft Copilot on PC or mobile, or Google’s Gemini web app to generate Independence Day imagery and messages, then save and share...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 10 — KB5063709 — is a small download with an outsized purpose: it lays the technical groundwork that lets consumer PCs enroll in Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates (ESU) program and receive security updates through October 13, 2026, even after mainstream support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Background / Overview KB5063709 arrived as part of the regular August Patch Tuesday and does not introduce consumer-facing features in the usual...