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Microsoft has quietly changed how the Microsoft Store handles app updates on Windows 11 and Windows 10: the long-standing option to permanently turn off automatic app updates in the Store UI is being removed for many users, and instead the Store now only offers time-limited pause options (reported as one through five weeks) after which automatic updates resume. Background Since the Microsoft Store became the primary distribution channel for many modern Windows apps, users have relied on a...

Microsoft has confirmed three distinct issues tied to the August 12, 2025 cumulative security update for Windows 11 version 24H2 (KB5063878), affecting enterprise update channels and producing noisy, though largely nonfunctional, error logs on some devices; Microsoft has issued rollbacks, workarounds, and a targeted fix rollout while urging most home users that they are unlikely to be affected. Background Windows 11 version 24H2 received its August 12, 2025 cumulative security and quality...

Microsoft announced a collaboration with National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Turing Drive and ADLINK to build what the partners described as Asia’s first Azure AI–driven self‑driving vehicle, a university-led proof‑of‑concept that stitches Microsoft Azure’s cloud AI services, the Autoware open‑source stack, edge compute from ADLINK, and Turing Drive’s vehicle integration into a campus autonomous shuttle prototype. Background Where this came from and who’s involved The...

NVIDIA’s decision to host Omniverse Cloud on Microsoft Azure marks a turning point for enterprises that want to build large-scale, secure digital twin and industrial simulation environments without the friction of managing complex, GPU‑heavy infrastructure themselves. The collaboration — announced through NVIDIA’s continued rollouts of Omniverse as a service — positions Azure as the primary managed cloud platform for Omniverse Cloud, bringing together NVIDIA’s simulation, USD-based...

The UAE has quietly repositioned artificial intelligence from a technocratic experiment to a central pillar of its post‑oil economic strategy, coupling bold national targets with deep public‑private partnerships and large‑scale skilling efforts designed to seed an AI‑ready workforce across government and industry. Background The Emirate's AI push is not a single programme but a coordinated architecture: national strategy documents and ministry initiatives are being matched by platform...

Microsoft’s Canary-channel Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27744 brings a consequential update to Prism — the Windows-on-Arm x86/x64 emulator — expanding the set of x86 CPU features exposed to emulated applications so Arm-based devices can run significantly more legacy software and games. This change, which adds support for instruction-set extensions such as AVX, AVX2, BMI, FMA and F16C to the virtual CPU presented by Prism, is already in limited retail use for specific workloads and is now...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update pulls the assistant out of the right-hand rail and drops a compact, quick-view Copilot interface down at the bottom center of the screen — directly over the taskbar and in line with the Windows 11 Start area — while introducing an Alt+Space press-to-talk shortcut and a flexible quick-view mode that aims to behave like a lightweight, always-available helper during everyday workflows. (theverge.com, blogs.windows.com) Background Microsoft introduced Copilot as...

Microsoft’s latest moves on two fronts — making Windows 11 more playable on Arm hardware and publishing a lab-grade video AI called StreamMind — mark a sustained effort to reshape the platform story for both consumers and enterprise customers, but the practical benefits will arrive unevenly and come with real trade‑offs for developers, IT buyers, and privacy-conscious users. Background / Overview Windows on Arm has been a long-running experiment: excellent battery life, thin-and-light...

Microsoft is quietly testing Copilot recommendations inside the Windows 11 Start menu — a small interface change that marks a strategic shift: Microsoft is no longer content to confine Copilot to a sidebar or system tray; it wants the AI assistant surfaced where users begin tasks, and it’s experimenting with ways to nudge people toward paid Copilot tiers. Background / Overview Microsoft’s long-term aim to weave Copilot into the fabric of Windows is accelerating. Insiders and feature hunters...

Microsoft Copilot is now a practical, multi-platform AI companion that can draft documents, summarize threads, generate images, read your screen, and act on your behalf — but getting the most from it takes more than a casual prompt. This guide explains what Copilot is, how to sign up (including Copilot Pro), how the interface works across Windows, Edge, macOS and mobile, and — most importantly — how to craft prompts, manage privacy, and avoid common pitfalls so the assistant speeds your work...

Microsoft’s decision to bake OpenAI’s GPT‑5 into the heart of its consumer, developer, and enterprise products is one of the most consequential platform moves in recent memory — a coordinated, cross‑product rollout that promises deeper reasoning, longer context handling, and an automated model‑routing layer that decides when to “think” and when to answer quickly. epenAI’s partnership has accelerated through successive GPT generations; with GPT‑5 the relationship moves from iterative...

You probably use Windows every day without realizing it already comes with dozens of tiny productivity and security features that feel like magic once you know they exist—features such as dictation that types your words for you, OCR that pulls text straight out of images, a cloud-backed clipboard history, automatic locking when you walk away, and quick file transfers to nearby PCs. These tools are built into Windows 10 and Windows 11 but are often disabled, lightly documented, or tucked...

The preseason scoreboard read Rams 31, Cowboys 21, but the real story from the night was less about a final number and more about what the game revealed — and what a single Herald Journal photograph amplified — about depth, injury risk, and narrative framing during live NFL auditions. Background / Overview Preseason football operates as an evaluation laboratory, not a predictive ledger. Coaches trade definitive outcomes for controlled experiments in player availability, situational packages...

Microsoft’s Windows could reclaim its place as the undisputed productivity platform in 2025 — but only if Microsoft stops prioritizing marketing nudges and gimmicks and instead delivers focused, enterprise-grade features that solve real workplace pain points now, not sometime next quarter. Background The discussion around productivity-first changes to Windows has intensified recently, with commentaries arguing that the operating system needs practical fixes rather than cosmetic or...

Microsoft engineers once built a proof-of-concept Windows experience specifically for handheld gaming devices during an internal hackathon — a prototype that showed how Windows 11 could present a gamepad-first, console-style interface and make Xbox Game Pass, Steam, Epic, and other storefronts easier to launch on pocket-sized hardware. The idea has circulated in leaks and forum posts for more than two years, and while evidence shows Microsoft employees prototyped a dedicated handheld shell...

Adesso’s latest EasyTouch keyboards aim to marry quiet mechanical typing with one-touch AI convenience, introducing the EasyTouch 130 and EasyTouch 150 — both outfitted with tactile Brown mechanical switches and a dedicated Microsoft Copilot hotkey that promises instant access to Windows’ AI assistant. Background Adesso has long positioned itself as a maker of pragmatic, office-oriented input devices that emphasize value and accessibility. The EasyTouch family expands that approach into a...

Microsoft’s Build 2017 keynote set the stage for a major autumn refresh to Windows 10, but several widely circulated reports — including one that mistakenly called the release “Windows 9” and predicted a September ship date — blurred factual detail with translation noise and optimism; the actual roadmap and feature set that emerged from Microsoft’s talks at Build and IFA were both more measured and better documented. oo preview what it described as the next wave of Windows 10 features aimed...

The image and brief caption that ran with The Herald Journal’s “Ravens Cowboys Football” item do more than illustrate a single play—they crystallize a preseason narrative that, taken alone, can mislead as often as it informs; careful inspection of the accompanying facts, verified box-score lines, and the image’s unknown metadata show a clear pattern: this was a diagnostic preseason performance, not a predictive regular-season verdict. eason football functions as a controlled audition...

The AI infrastructure era is consolidating around three firms that sit at the intersection of design, fabrication, and deployment: Nvidia for compute architectures and software stacks, TSMC for the advanced manufacturing that turns designs into reality, and Microsoft for the cloud fabric and enterprise distribution that scale AI into production—an argument laid out in the AInvest analysis and reinforced by company disclosures and independent industry data. Background The AI transition is not...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 24H2 test build quietly removes two long-running pieces of Windows heritage — WordPad and Windows Mixed Reality — while shipping a set of newer, developer‑ and servicing‑focused features that point to where Microsoft wants Windows to go next. The change is consequential: WordPad’s removal severs a nearly 30‑year lineage of a lightweight rich‑text editor bundled with Windows, and the Mixed Reality exit formally pulls the plug on a consumer VR/AR foothold Microsoft once...