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Microsoft’s latest public remarks about the direction of Windows — voiced by Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s VP of Windows and Devices, and echoed by OS-security lead David Weston — sketch a future operating system that is ambient, agentic, and multimodal: one that sees what’s on your screen, listens to the room, learns context, and uses a mix of on‑device and cloud compute to act on your behalf. That vision promises powerful productivity gains, deeper accessibility, and novel automation — but...

Tenable’s new Tenable AI Exposure bundles discovery, posture management and governance into the company’s Tenable One exposure management platform in a bid to give security teams an “end‑to‑end” answer for the emerging risks of enterprise generative AI—but what it promises and what organisations actually need to deploy safely are two different conversations. Background Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT Enterprise and Microsoft Copilot are now embedded in everyday workflows across...

Microsoft’s Q4 earnings were a watershed moment for Azure — the company disclosed that Azure’s annual run rate has topped $75 billion, cloud revenue for the quarter rose to $46.7 billion, and Azure’s year‑over‑year growth accelerated to the high‑30s in the June quarter, while Microsoft’s backlog of contracted cloud work (RPO) ballooned into the hundreds of billions. rquarter (ended June 30) marked the first time the company provided a clear annualized revenue figure for Azure, revealing a...

Mozilla's Nightly build of Firefox has tripped over an old Windows 10 quirk: users running pre‑1803 builds (for example, 1703, 1709 or some Enterprise LTSB/LTSC variants) reported an immediate failure to launch Firefox 143 Nightly with an error complaining that api-ms-win-core-console-11-2-0.dll was missing — a symptom that, on investigation, points to a runtime API set that simply does not exist on those older Windows 10 releases rather than an intentional end‑of‑support move by Mozilla...

Microsoft’s new Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) is not just a cosmetic tweak to the recovery menu — it rethinks how Windows 11 responds to catastrophic boot failures by taking the recovery process online, automating diagnosis and remediation, and giving IT teams a far faster path out of mass-outage scenarios that once required physical access to affected machines. Background: why Quick Machine Recovery matters When millions of endpoints go down, manual triage is a non‑starter. The fallout from...

Microsoft has started handing Arm-based Windows 11 PCs a long‑requested capability: the Xbox PC app can now let eligible Arm machines download and run games locally, replacing—where permitted—the cloud‑only experience that defined Windows on Arm gaming for years. This staged Insider preview opens local installs to devices enrolled in the PC Gaming Preview via the Xbox Insider Hub and is being distributed in Xbox PC app builds beginning with version 2508.1001.27.0 (and higher). Background...

Microsoft has confirmed that the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), can fail to install on enterprise endpoints when delivered via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) or System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM/MECM), producing the error code 0x80240069 and causing the Windows Update agent (wuauserv) to crash on affected clients. Background / Overview KB5063878 is the August 12, 2025 monthly cumulative security update for Windows 11, version...

Microsoft has formally put a deadline on one of the most common holdouts: Windows 11, version 23H2 (Home and Pro) will stop receiving security and quality updates on November 11, 2025, forcing holdouts to move to a supported build or accept the increased risk of running an unsupported OS. Background Windows has moved to an annual feature‑update cadence with fixed servicing windows, and Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar is explicit: consumer editions (Home, Pro, Pro for Workstations, Pro...

Microsoft has quietly rolled out a redesigned right‑click menu for Notepad in Windows 11, bringing the long-familiar text editor into alignment with the modern, streamlined context‑menu style that Microsoft has been applying across the OS. rty has long been defined by speed, simplicity, and minimalism—traits that made it the go‑to tool for quick text edits, configuration tweaks, and copy‑paste cleaning for decades. Over the last two years Microsoft has intentionally modernized Notepad...

UpDownTool’s promise to keep Windows 10 alive for mainstream users — by automating a downgrade to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 with continued security updates through January 13, 2032 — has injected a new flashpoint into the post-Windows‑10 transition debate. In a few automated clicks, the utility claims to convert Windows 11 (or existing Windows 10 Home/Pro installs) to the LTSC 2021 edition while preserving user data, apps and drivers. The result is a slimmed-down, low‑churn Windows...

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Microsoft has issued a firm deadline: Windows 11, version 23H2 (Home and Pro) will stop receiving updates on November 11, 2025, which means security patches and quality fixes end on that date — leaving holdouts with an increasingly risky system and, for most consumers, no practical option but to move to a supported Windows 11 release. Background: timeline and what this change means Microsoft maintains a Modern Lifecycle policy for Windows 11 consumer editions, meaning each feature update is...

A Southern California resident’s lawsuit against Microsoft over the planned end of Windows 10 support has escalated a routine product lifecycle event into a high‑stakes legal and policy battle touching on security, consumer rights, environmental impact, and the commercial dynamics of the emerging AI PC market. Background / Overview Microsoft has publicly scheduled the end of routine mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, after which the company will no longer provide feature...

Windows 10’s official countdown has turned a long-running conversation into a practical decision many readers face today: do you need a new laptop, or can your existing machine survive the transition with a little effort? The short answer from recent coverage and retail testing is nuanced: Windows 10 will stop receiving regular security and feature updates after October 14, 2025, but that doesn’t mean every affected PC must be tossed. Product reviewers point to a handful of modern...

A California resident has filed suit against Microsoft, arguing the company's October 14, 2025 end-of-support for Windows 10 is premature, coercive and effectively forces millions of users to either upgrade to Windows 11, buy new hardware, or pay for limited extended support—an action the plaintiff calls forced obsolescence and a strategy to accelerate adoption of Microsoft's AI‑centric ecosystem. Background What Microsoft announced (and what actually changes) Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar...

Epic Games’ Easy Anti‑Cheat (EAC) is finally landing on ARM platforms — a technical and ecosystem milestone that removes one of the largest obstacles keeping multiplayer PC games off Snapdragon‑powered Copilot+ laptops and Linux ARM devices. The company shipped updated Epic Online Services (EOS) tooling that includes a Windows‑on‑ARM EAC client and an ARM‑aware bootstrapper distributed via the EOS SDK, and Epic will battle‑test the rollout with Fortnite before wider studio adoption. This...

One week after Microsoft released its short “vision” video for the future of Windows, Pavan Davuluri — the executive directly responsible for Windows product development — laid out, in clear and practical terms, how on-device AI, multimodal inputs, and cloud orchestration will reshape the desktop PC platform over the next several years and how those changes are already beginning to ship in Windows 11. Background / Overview Microsoft’s recent messaging frames the next generation of Windows as...

Microsoft’s latest advisory to “ignore” a worrying Event Viewer error is the most recent entry in a string of update-era hiccups that have left administrators juggling noisy logs, SIEM rules, and the trust deficit that follows vendor-issued cosmetic triage. Microsoft says the CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) Event ID 57 — which reads “The ‘Microsoft Pluton Cryptographic Provider’ provider was not loaded because initialization failed” — is a benign logging artifact introduced by the...

Fundamental Research Labs’ new product, Shortcut, has forced a familiar office question into the open: if spreadsheets can be written, audited, and modeled by agentic AI from a single natural-language prompt, does anybody still need to open Excel every day? Background Fundamental Research Labs, an MIT‑spun applied‑AI startup, this summer debuted Shortcut — an Excel‑like interface driven by a coordinating ensemble of AI agents that claim to perform multi‑step financial workflows (discounted...

A Microsoft Garage hackathon prototype has graduated into a commercial workstream that uses generative AI to attack permitting bottlenecks across nuclear, renewable, mining, and grid projects — a practical, high-stakes application of AI that could materially shorten the time and cost of getting clean-energy projects into operation. The team behind the effort — known internally as Generative AI for Permitting (Project GreenLight in early stages) — began as a 53-person cross‑company hack and...