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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 —...

Fall’s back-to-school shopping season just got a lot more strategic: Microsoft’s new “Copilot+ PCs” are at the center of a fresh Microsoft guidance piece that spells out seven practical ways students can cut the cost of an AI-capable Windows laptop this semester, from early student discounts to certified refurbished options—and the guidance sits atop a larger industry conversation about what these AI-first machines actually deliver in real classrooms. Background: why Copilot+ PCs matter for...

Microsoft has confirmed that the August cumulative update for Windows 11 version 24H2 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) is failing to install on some enterprise-managed endpoints delivered via WSUS and SCCM, and Redmond has published a Known Issue Rollback (KIR) policy that administrators can deploy as a temporary mitigation while a permanent servicing fix is prepared. Background / Overview The August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878) is delivered as a combined...

Microsoft’s brief line about quantum on its earnings call landed like a strategic pivot: Satya Nadella framed quantum as “the next big accelerator in the cloud,” and Microsoft paired that message with a concrete engineering milestone — the operational deployment of a Level 2 quantum capability and measurable progress toward logical qubits, a development that instantly reshapes the commercial runway for hardware vendors such as IonQ. edustry has long used shorthand to describe where systems...

Chainlink’s sudden re‑entry into the crypto conversation — framed by a high‑profile analyst as this cycle’s “most obvious” large‑cap jackpot and compared rhetorically to AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud — is the kind of narrative that moves markets and sparks debate, but it also demands close scrutiny of the measurable economics beneath the headline metaphor. Background / Overview Chainlink (LINK) is a decentralized oracle network that supplies off‑chain data, verifiable randomness...

A new on‑chain app builder called Dreamspace is rolling out on Base with heavy Microsoft AI integration—promising to turn plain‑English ideas into deployable decentralized apps by combining Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI for generation, Space and Time’s ZK‑provable SQL for verifiable data, and Base’s low‑fee, EVM‑compatible execution environment to lower the operational and technical bar for creators. Background / Overview Dreamspace (sometimes styled Dreamspace or Dreamscape in early...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a quality update to Windows 11 Insiders that packs a slate of targeted bug fixes — including remedies for USB/removable‑storage policy enforcement, File Explorer slowdowns, and several enterprise‑grade reliability issues — as part of Build 22631.5837 (KB5064080) delivered to the Release Preview Channel on August 14, 2025. Background Microsoft maintains two closely related servicing families for Windows 11 (the 22621 “feature‑off” and 22631 “feature‑on” lines) to...

Microsoft’s Windows team is sketching a future in which your PC is less a passive tool and more a conversational partner — one that lives in the cloud, understands voice and vision, and uses context to anticipate and act on your intent. That is the core of Pavan Davuluri’s message: Windows will be ambient, multimodal, and hybrid-cloud by design, enabling users to access their full Windows experience anywhere, interact naturally with the operating system, and rely on a mix of on‑device and...

Microsoft's Windows Backup for Organizations has taken a major step toward mainstream deployment: reports indicate that a Release Preview build for Windows 10 (OS build 19045.6276) — surfaced under the label KB5063842 — includes the feature marked as generally available for enterprise customers. This move follows the product’s public preview announcement earlier in 2025 and places a Microsoft-managed backup and restore option squarely into the toolbox IT teams will consider as they plan...

A Southern California resident has filed a state‑court lawsuit asking a judge to stop Microsoft from switching off routine, free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, arguing the scheduled sunset is not a routine lifecycle decision but a coercive commercial strategy that will push millions of users toward Windows 11 and a new class of AI‑optimized “Copilot+” devices. The complaint seeks an injunction requiring Microsoft to continue issuing free Windows 10 security updates...

SparkyLinux 8.0 “Seven Sisters” lands as a polished, lightweight alternative for users approaching the Windows 10 end-of-life—offering a Debian 13 “Trixie” foundation, multiple desktop editions for both modern and legacy hardware, and a set of pragmatic installer and package-management improvements that make it a credible path away from Windows 10 and Windows 11’s hardware treadmill. Background / Overview The timing for SparkyLinux 8.0 could not be more relevant. Microsoft has confirmed that...