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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...

This week’s HR headlines lay bare a widening disconnect between how work gets done and how employers think it should be done: nearly half of employees report using banned AI tools to speed their tasks, the U.S. Department of Labor is offering $30 million in grants to push employer-led training, and for the first time since 2020 more CEOs expect to shrink their workforces than expand them — a dynamic that will shape hiring, retention, and risk strategies across IT and HR teams. Background The...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27924 to the Canary Channel, shipping ISOs and beginning a staged enablement of several Copilot+ PC experiences alongside a redesigned Advanced settings hub and a targeted Snipping Tool update — a release that signals Microsoft’s push to put more AI-driven capabilities and developer ergonomics into the OS while also underscoring the practical and security trade-offs of testing on Canary-tier builds. Background Microsoft’s Canary Channel...

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Microsoft’s newest public framing of Windows isn’t merely about faster updates or refreshed icons — it’s a clear signal that the desktop is being rewired around generative AI, voice control, and computer vision, and that the humble mouse and keyboard will likely shift from default inputs to one of several interaction modes in the years ahead. Background: where this conversation started The recent interview with Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s head of Windows, and the company’s ongoing “Windows...

PowerToys 0.93 nudges an already indispensable toolkit toward something more professional: a Windows 11–style settings dashboard, a major engineering overhaul of Command Palette that leans on Ahead‑of‑Time (AOT) compilation for tangible speed and footprint gains, a presentation‑ready Spotlight mode for Mouse Highlighter, and a raft of quality‑of‑life and testing improvements that reflect a maturing open‑source engineering process. eusiast project and has grown into Microsoft's primary...

The boom in generative AI — and the data-center buildout that powers it — is colliding with an electricity system built for a different era, and regulators, utilities and tech companies are scrambling to decide who ultimately pays for the upgrades. A landmark ruling by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) requiring large new data-center customers to shoulder a significant share of contracted energy costs has sharpened a debate that stretches from Northern Virginia to the PJM grid...

Microsoft’s newest messaging about the future of Windows makes a simple, startling claim: the next generation of the OS will be multimodal and agentic—able to see, hear, and act on users’ behalf—and that voice and vision will become first-class inputs alongside (and sometimes ahead of) the mouse and keyboard. The implications reach from device design and PC procurement to privacy, enterprise controls, and the business models of OEMs and accessory makers. Microsoft’s public statements—from a...

Microsoft has released an update that resolves a severe clustering regression in Windows Server 2019 introduced by July’s cumulative security rollup, closing a weeks‑long incident that left some failover clusters unstable and virtual machines repeatedly restarting. Background / Overview In early July 2025 Microsoft issued the monthly cumulative security update for Windows Server 2019 (KB5062557). Administrators quickly reported a pattern of failures on clustered hosts after installing that...

Oracle’s VirtualBox 7.2 marks a decisive, architecture-focused expansion of the open-source hypervisor: the 7.2 cycle brings explicit Windows 11 on ARM host and guest support, fresh compatibility work for modern Linux kernels (notably initial support for the 6.16/6.17 series), UI and usability overhauls, and continued hardening around VM encryption and device drivers — all delivered through the project’s 7.2 preview/release channel and public development activity. Background VirtualBox has...

Battlefield 6’s second Open Beta weekend goes live today, and this test brings the most significant matchmaking and playlist changes yet: a new Custom Search feature that lets players prioritize specific map-and-mode combinations, daily-rotating mode playlists inside the All-Out Warfare pool, and expanded options intended to gather deeper feedback ahead of the game’s October 10 launch. Background Battlefield 6 returns to a modern warfare canvas and aims to deliver the franchise’s signature...

Dreamspace’s launch reshapes a familiar promise: make building powerful applications as simple as describing them aloud — but this time, the platform fuses generative AI, verifiable blockchain data, and a low-cost Layer‑2 rollup to let creators ship onchain apps without writing a line of code. The new no‑code builder arrives with a stacked architecture that leans on Space and Time’s ZK‑backed database primitives, Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI model hosting, and the...

The latest Windows Weekly episode—packed with the usual blend of skepticism, insider detail, and offhand humor—landed like a rapid-fire briefing on everything Microsoft-adjacent: Patch Tuesday’s AI-first fixes and recovery tools, Windows 11 on Arm finally gaining real creative-app parity, a fresh round of browser-and-AI theater led by Perplexity and Microsoft, the surprising end of independence for GitHub, and scattered industry tremors that touch developers, gamers, and IT teams alike. The...

Windows 11 still hides a surprising amount of power under its polished surface — and for power users the obvious answer isn't hoping Microsoft brings back every legacy tool, it’s learning where those capabilities already exist and how to extend them cleanly. What began as a short list of “hidden” features has become a practical toolbox: built-in automation with Task Scheduler and PowerShell, lightweight super-tools from Microsoft’s open-source PowerToys, and a handful of classic utilities —...