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Microsoft has opened the door for U.S. government customers to manage on‑premises and third‑party SQL Server instances from the Azure Government portal by making Azure Arc‑enabled SQL Server on Windows available in the US Government Virginia region — but the release is deliberately limited in scope, with several mission‑critical capabilities and licensing options still missing. Background Azure Arc is Microsoft’s hybrid management layer that brings Azure management, governance, and some data...

Today’s Beta-channel drop from the Windows Insider Program lands as a small but significant checkpoint in the Windows 11, version 24H2 servicing stream: Microsoft published Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5751 (packaged as KB5064071) to Beta Channel Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2 — a routine cumulative flight intended to continue polishing the 24H2 code line while moving selected AI and quality features closer to mainstream release. Background / Overview Microsoft’s preview...

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (Dev Channel) — what IT should know By WindowsForum Staff — August 15, 2025 Summary Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (KB5064071) to the Dev Channel on August 15, 2025. The flight continues Microsoft’s incremental rollout of Copilot-driven features: Click to Do gains three new selection modes (Freeform, Rectangle, and Ctrl+Click), Snipping Tool picks up a “window mode” screen-record option (Snipping Tool...

Headline: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (KB5064071) — what’s new, what’s fixed, and what Insiders and IT should do next Byline: Analysis for WindowsForum.com — published Aug 15, 2025 Lead Today Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (KB5064071) to the Dev Channel. The flight continues the 25H2-era Dev Channel pattern: small, targeted UX polish and reliability fixes mixed with incremental Copilot/Copilot+ feature rollouts that are being staged using...

Today’s Beta‑Channel flight brings Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5751 (KB5064071), a focused incremental update that continues Microsoft’s push to make AI features like Recall and Click to Do more useful and more reliable while tightening up a raft of UI and reliability fixes for Windows 11, version 24H2. The release is small in build delta but significant in scope: it adds new selection modes in Click to Do, continues the phased rollout of Copilot‑centric experiences for Copilot+...

Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5751 (KB5064071) to the Beta Channel, a modest but meaningful update for Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2 that refines Click to Do selection, softens some visual chrome in File Explorer, and continues Microsoft’s phased “controlled feature rollout” approach for AI-enabled experiences. The release, published on August 15, 2025, bundles a set of gradual-rollout improvements and fixes for both Click to Do and core shell areas...

Today’s Dev Channel drop for Windows Insiders brings a modest-but-meaningful update: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (KB5064071) adds targeted improvements to Copilot-era tooling, a handful of UI polish items, and several reliability fixes — while carrying a few known installation and compatibility issues that Insiders and IT teams should note before updating. Background Microsoft continues to iterate on the active Dev Channel stream for Windows 11, version 25H2, using frequent...

Windows Security is a strong baseline for protecting Windows 11 devices, but it was never designed to be a human-proof, one-stop solution — there are modern threats that built-in tools cannot fully mitigate, and relying on default protection alone leaves significant gaps in phishing, account-security hygiene, zero-day exploits, cross-device scams, and targeted kernel-level attacks. Background Windows 11 ships with an increasingly capable security stack — Microsoft Defender Antivirus...

Lenovo’s decision to ship the Legion Go S with Valve’s SteamOS transforms what was a competent, if occasionally clumsy, Windows handheld into a lean, game-first portable that convinced at least one reviewer it could replace a Windows PC for many everyday gaming needs. rview SteamOS started as Valve’s in-house operating system for the Steam Deck: a Linux-based, console-like interface designed specifically for controller-led, on-the-go gaming. That tight integration — a lightweight UI, Proton...

Windows ships with dozens of features and background services designed to improve convenience — but those conveniences are also additional points of entry for attackers. A recent how‑to-style guide compiled a short list of commonly unnecessary capabilities that many users can safely disable to reduce their Windows attack surface; this article expands that advice, verifies the technical details, and weighs the trade‑offs so you can make safe, informed decisions. Overview Built‑in conveniences...

The UK government’s five‑year Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft — the Strategic Partnership Arrangement 2024 (SPA24) — commits public bodies to a scale of procurement that the Crown Commercial Service expects will amount to roughly £9 billion over the life of the deal, and that commitment raises a simple fiscal and strategic question: should ministers and procurement teams actively hunt for open source alternatives to Microsoft to save money and reduce vendor lock‑in, or does the...

Microsoft’s Snipping Tool for Windows 11 has taken another small step toward being a genuine, all‑in‑one capture utility: a test build of the app now lets you pick a program window when starting a video recording, rather than forcing a free‑draw rectangle. That improvement — arriving in Snipping Tool version 11.2507.14.0 — removes one of the most awkward limitations of the built‑in recorder, but it is far from a finished product. The new window‑pick mode fixes a common workflow annoyance...

Microsoft is quietly aligning Notepad’s right‑click experience with Windows 11’s modern context‑menu language, rolling a refreshed menu into the Windows Insider channels that places the most common editing actions up front while preserving Notepad’s growing set of AI and formatting features. ethe last two years has been one of steady, deliberate feature additions: tabbed documents, dark mode, Markdown rendering and lightweight formatting, spellcheck, and Copilot‑style AI actions such as...

Microsoft’s Power Pages now lets makers build AI agents from a selected form inside Power Pages Studio and push them into Microsoft Copilot Studio for customization — complete with CRUD access to Dataverse, optional file-upload data extraction, and a refreshed multi-agent chat widget for site visitors. Background Power Pages has evolved from a portal-builder into an extensible surface for low-code AI experiences. The newest preview capability ties Power Pages Studio directly to Microsoft...

Microsoft’s patch KB5063709 quietly repaired the enrollment path that had prevented many Windows 10 users from signing up for the company’s one‑year Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, restoring the “Enroll now” experience in Settings so eligible PCs can get security‑only updates through October 13, 2026. Background Microsoft set the end of mainstream support for Windows 10 at October 14, 2025, and later introduced a consumer ESU program to give home users an extra year of critical and...

Creating a reliable, bootable Windows 11 USB from macOS is entirely practical on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs — and with the right preparations you can build media that will install Windows 11 on a PC or an Intel Mac. The community guide this article expands on provides multiple tested approaches (Terminal + dd, wimlib splitting, Boot Camp, GUI tools like balenaEtcher, and virtual-machine-assisted creation), and the notes below consolidate those methods, validate key technical claims...

Windows 11’s out-of-box experience (OOBE) still spends too much time selling users on apps and features while hiding the handful of settings that actually shape day‑one comfort, privacy, and productivity — and that needs to change now. The common-sense fix is simple: replace promotional screens with a short, user-friendly setup flow that surfaces seven practical options (theme, taskbar alignment, Start layout, Night light, Nearby Sharing, Clipboard history, and selective restore) so new PCs...

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...