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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...

The rapid expansion of AI-focused data centers has moved from a niche infrastructure story into a full-blown national policy and utility challenge: soaring electricity demand is forcing utilities and regulators to rewrite the rules on who pays for grid upgrades, while hyperscalers respond by buying, building, or flexing energy resources to protect their AI pipelines and corporate margins. The debate now centers on cost causation, market transparency, and whether residential customers will...

Microsoft released emergency updates on August 12, 2025 to fix a high-severity flaw in Windows Remote Desktop Services that allows unauthenticated, network-based denial-of-service attacks against a wide range of Windows servers and desktops, tracked as CVE-2025-53722. Background Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and Remote Desktop Services (RDS) are foundational technologies for remote administration, support desks, virtual desktop infrastructures, and many remote-access business workflows. Over...

Microsoft has begun publicly testing a dramatic expansion of Copilot’s “vision” capabilities: a new Desktop Share mode that, when explicitly enabled by a user, lets Copilot Vision see and analyze an entire Windows desktop in real time. The feature is rolling out to Windows Insiders in markets where Windows Vision is enabled and arrives as a Copilot app update (minimum version 1.25071.125). Microsoft’s official announcement describes an opt‑in flow (click the glasses icon in the Copilot...

A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego is challenging Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support for Windows 10, arguing the cutoff amounts to forced obsolescence designed to drive customers onto Windows 11 and new AI‑optimized hardware—and asking a court to force Microsoft to keep issuing free Windows 10 security updates until the OS’s installed base falls below a plaintiff‑defined threshold. Background / Overview Microsoft has publicly scheduled the end of mainstream support for...

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Bellevue’s hospitality sector now faces a clear and measurable shift: routine, language‑heavy, and transaction‑focused roles are the most exposed to generative AI, and local workers who master hybrid human+AI workflows will retain the highest-value work while protecting wages and employment opportunities. Background / Overview Microsoft’s empirical analysis of Copilot usage — a dataset built on hundreds of thousands of real workplace interactions — places language, writing, and repetitive...

CPS’s pitch — that outcome-focused AI agents built on Microsoft Copilot can shrink paperwork, speed investigations and put more officers back on the street — arrives at a moment when policing is hungry for tangible efficiency gains and painfully wary of unproven AI experiments. The company will demonstrate those claims at The Emergency Tech Show (ETS) in the Microsoft Partner Pavilion on 17–18 September 2025, promising live examples of Copilot Agents, shift-briefing automation and...

Dreamspace’s public beta marks a bold attempt to collapse months of engineering work into minutes of creative work by combining Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Space and Time’s Proof‑of‑SQL verifiable data layer, and the Base Layer‑2 for on‑chain deployment—positioning itself as a no‑code AI app builder that lets non‑technical creators design, publish, and monetize live dapps without writing production code. eges at the intersection of three fast‑moving trends: widespread availability of...

Microsoft has acknowledged an emergency problem with the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5063878), after enterprise administrators reported widespread installation failures when the package is delivered through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). The failure surfaces as error code 0x80240069, accompanied in many cases by the Windows Update service (wuauserv) crashing and event-log entries such as “Unexpected HRESULT while...