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Microsoft’s announcement that Windows 10 will reach its official end of support on October 14, 2025, has moved from a scheduled milestone to a legal and public-policy flashpoint, after a California resident filed a lawsuit on August 7, 2025, accusing the company of using the cutoff to force hardware upgrades and corner the market for AI-optimized PCs. The case combines consumer-protection claims, security warnings, and environmental critiques about planned obsolescence — and it raises hard...

Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC pitch promised a new class of Windows machines where on-device intelligence — powered by dedicated NPUs — would deliver privacy-friendly, instant AI features that change how we use a laptop every day. After a year of hands-on testing and watching Microsoft’s rollout, the reality looks far more mundane: some genuinely useful on-device capabilities, a raft of cloud-dependent features, and a branding/packaging mismatch that leaves many buyers underwhelmed. Background /...

Security researchers have uncovered a targeted supply‑chain campaign — dubbed “Solana‑Scan” — in which malicious npm packages masquerading as Solana SDK utilities are being used to harvest developer credentials, wallet keyfiles and other high‑value artifacts from developer machines. Background / Overview The JavaScript/npm ecosystem has long been a favored vector for supply‑chain attacks because package installs run arbitrary install‑time code with developer privileges. Recent months have...

Microsoft’s quiet theming work in recent Insider previews finally moves one of Windows’ most visible UX complaints from “annoying” to “fix-in-progress,” as file‑operation dialogs — the copy/move progress windows, delete confirmations, access‑denied prompts and similar surfaces — are now rendering in a proper dark palette on machines where Microsoft’s staged flag is enabled. Background / Overview The change is modest in scope but high in everyday impact. Dark Mode was introduced to the...

Microsoft’s Windows team has confirmed what industry insiders have been expecting for months: the future of the OS will be built around context-aware, multimodal AI that can see and understand what’s on your screen, respond to voice and pen input, and act on your intent — but those headline AI experiences will arrive first on specially equipped Copilot+ PCs rather than across every Windows 11 machine. Background Microsoft’s public roadmap for Windows has shifted from a cadence of single “big...

Ricoh Asia Pacific has launched a region‑wide “AI Learning Week” to rapidly arm more than a thousand employees with practical AI skills, accelerate Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent adoption, and convert device‑centric offerings into outcomes‑driven services for enterprise customers. Background / Overview Ricoh’s announcement positions the five‑day programme — running 18–22 August 2025 — as the operational centrepiece of a three‑tiered Asia‑Pacific AI strategy: pre‑configured device + workflow...

Power Platform Monitor Alerts promises to move Power Platform operations from reactive scramble to proactive control by letting admins define health thresholds and receive notifications when apps or flows begin to degrade—so teams can act before users notice a problem. rview Power Platform’s Monitor capability began as a maker-focused, in-studio troubleshooting tool for Power Apps and has since expanded into a tenant-level operational experience in the Power Platform admin center. The...

TrustedTech’s decision to rebrand and recast itself as a Microsoft-first cloud and AI systems integrator marks a deliberate pivot from transactional licensing to outcome-driven services aimed squarely at Copilot deployments, Azure migrations, and managed security — a move the company unveiled in a press announcement on August 18, 2025 and that industry coverage says underscores rapidly expanding services revenue and Microsoft-aligned delivery capability. tedTech began life as Trusted Tech...

The era of the Frontier Firm has arrived: organizations that pair intelligence on tap with a modern cloud foundation are already pulling ahead, and the business case for migrating and modernizing on Microsoft Azure is now concrete, measurable, and urgent for leaders who want AI to scale across the enterprise rather than stall in pilots. Microsoft’s 2025 Work Trend Index frames the shift — human‑agent teams, the “agent boss,” and the need to rebuild processes around generative AI — and a...

Google’s long-rumored “Campfire” efforts — the code-name for a Chrome OS capability that would let certain Chromebooks boot and run alternative operating systems such as Microsoft Windows 10 — have repeatedly surfaced in public code and reporting over the last several years. What began as experimental commits and “AltOS” traces in Chromium revealed active developer exploration and even hints that Google tested Windows certification paths for Pixelbook-class hardware. At the same time, public...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 — released as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) — is now at the center of a rapidly developing reliability story: independent testers and multiple tech outlets report that, under sustained large writes (commonly cited around 50 GB and above), some NVMe SSDs can become unresponsive, disappear from Windows, and in a minority of cases return corrupted or unreadable — symptoms that amount to real data‑integrity risk for affected users. Background /...

Microsoft has begun pushing a clear countdown through Windows Update: standard editions of Windows 10 will stop receiving monthly security updates on October 14, 2025, and users have about 60 days to either upgrade to Windows 11, enroll in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or accept running an unsupported system. Background Microsoft first set October 14, 2025 as the end-of-support date for multiple Windows 10 editions months ago, but recent automated notices delivered through...

Virtual machines are nothing mystical—yet a small stack of persistent myths keeps turning otherwise sensible choices into needless fear, wasted money, or fragile setups that break at the worst moment. The five misconceptions below are the ones most likely to trip up hobbyists, home-labbers, and even experienced tinkerers; each myth is debunked, clarified, and paired with practical, sourced guidance so you can run VMs smarter, safer, and with less drama. Background / Overview Virtual machines...

I’ve been putting off the full switch to Windows 11 — and I’m not alone: recent developments from Microsoft have made it rational for many users to stay on Windows 10 for now. The vendor’s rollout of a consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) option, growing reports of performance and stability oddities in Windows 11 24H2, and a string of hardware compatibility headaches (notably SSD-related Blue Screen reports) have combined to make a deliberate, measured migration the safest course for a...

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Microsoft has added a first‑class Excel function named COPILOT — an equals‑sign‑style formula that lets users call Copilot directly from the grid, pass natural‑language prompts and ranges as context, and surface AI‑generated arrays and single‑cell results that recalculate with the workbook. The new function turns Copilot from a sidebar/chat helper into a native spreadsheet primitive, but it also brings quotas, edge‑case bugs, and governance questions that IT teams and power users must treat...

Microsoft has put a generative AI assistant where most knowledge workers spend the bulk of their time: directly into Excel’s grid with a new COPILOT function that lets Microsoft 365 Copilot run natural-language prompts inside individual cells and return multi-cell arrays, categories, summaries, and structured data that update automatically as the sheet changes. Background Excel is the one productivity app that survived every major shift in office tooling because it serves as both spreadsheet...

Microsoft's renewed push to bridge mobile and desktop briefly returned Android apps to the Windows 11 conversation this week as testing activity resurfaced in U.S. preview channels — a development that resurrects familiar promises and fresh questions about the future of Android-on-Windows after years of engineering experiments and a formal deprecation notice from Microsoft. Background Since the Windows 11 launch cycle, Microsoft has pursued multiple strategies to bring mobile apps to the PC...

Microsoft has begun surfacing a 60‑day warning to hundreds of millions of Windows 10 users: the operating system’s mainstream support ends on October 14, 2025, and anyone who wants continued security patches after that date must either upgrade to Windows 11 (if their PC is eligible), replace the device, or enroll in Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for a limited, one‑year safety net. Background Microsoft set an unambiguous lifecycle cutoff for Windows 10: after...

Microsoft’s upgrade machinery is currently offering Windows 11 24H2 to machines that, on paper, fail the company’s minimum security requirements — including systems with TPM 2.0 disabled — and multiple independent reports suggest this is happening to both consumer and enterprise devices, creating a practical and policy gap between what Microsoft says is required and what some users are actually seeing. Background / Overview When Windows 11 launched, Microsoft set a clear minimum baseline...