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A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego has escalated what Microsoft framed as routine product lifecycle management into a public test of forced obsolescence, consumer protection, and whether a dominant platform can be legally compelled to continue issuing free security updates after an announced end‑of‑support date. Background / Overview Microsoft has publicly scheduled the end of mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. On that date Microsoft will cease routine security...

Mouse Keys is one of Windows’ oldest and most practical accessibility tools: it lets you steer the mouse pointer using the numeric keypad, perform clicks, double‑clicks, and drag‑and‑drop — all from the keyboard. Microsoft’s original support documentation dates back to Windows 7 and spells out the numeric mappings and click controls, while modern Windows 10 and Windows 11 settings expose more granular speed, acceleration, and modifier options to tailor the experience to today’s keyboards and...

Windows includes a built-in accessibility feature called Mouse Keys that lets you use the numeric keypad to move the pointer, click, double-click, and drag items—no mouse required—and the feature is available in both Windows 10 and Windows 11. Background Mouse Keys is an accessibility feature that has been part of Windows for many releases. It was designed to help users who have limited use of a traditional pointing device, but it also serves practical purposes for anyone whose mouse fails...

Mouse Keys is one of Windows’ oldest — and often overlooked — accessibility tools: it lets you use the numeric keypad on your keyboard to move the mouse pointer, click, double‑click, drag and drop, and change the active mouse button without touching a physical mouse. It’s a small feature with outsized utility for people who lose precision with a conventional pointing device, who must work keyboard-first, or who need a reliable fallback when a mouse fails. The mechanics are straightforward...

Microsoft is facing a state‑court challenge in California after a Southern California resident filed a lawsuit seeking to force Microsoft to continue providing free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the vendor’s announced end‑of‑support date — a legal gambit that reframes a routine product lifecycle milestone as a potential consumer‑protection, antitrust and environmental issue. y scheduled the end of mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. After that date Microsoft...

Microsoft’s security lead, David Weston, has painted a future in which Windows listens, sees, and acts like a digital coworker — and where the traditional mouse and keyboard feel as antiquated as MS‑DOS does to today’s young adults. This bold vision is rooted in Microsoft’s push for agentic AI, Copilot integrations, and new Copilot+ hardware that runs advanced models locally — but it also collides with hard realities: privacy risks exposed by features like Recall, hardware limits that...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5742 to the Dev Channel, a focused update that reshuffles several legacy Control Panel options into Settings, tightens up File Explorer performance and visuals, and rolls out a redesigned mobile device companion inside the Start menu — while also shipping a compact set of fixes and a handful of still-active known issues that Insiders should weigh before installing. Background Microsoft uses the Windows Insider Dev Channel to trial...

Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27919 to the Canary Channel on August 8, 2025, bringing a consolidated Settings UI for Windows Search, a new "Find apps" reorganization in Settings, a handful of input and File Explorer fixes, and a set of notable known issues that Insiders should treat with caution before upgrading. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Canary Channel continues to serve as the earliest public proving ground for experimental platform changes and UI rethinks for...

A California resident has filed a San Diego Superior Court lawsuit seeking to stop Microsoft from ending routine, free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, arguing the vendor’s lifecycle decision amounts to forced obsolescence and an anticompetitive nudge toward Windows 11 and Microsoft’s AI-focused device ecosystem. Background / Overview Microsoft’s official lifecycle calendar sets October 14, 2025 as the end of mainstream support for Windows 10; after that date Microsoft...

Microsoft has changed how it handles voice recordings in a way that directly affects what you can see and manage on the Microsoft Privacy Dashboard: new voice clips contributed for product improvement are now de‑identified and are no longer associated with individual Microsoft accounts, which means that voice data recorded after October 30, 2020 will generally not appear on your account’s privacy dashboard — while voice data collected and linked to accounts before that date can still be...

Microsoft recently changed how it handles voice recordings used to improve speech recognition — new voice clips are no longer tied to your Microsoft account and therefore won’t appear on the Privacy Dashboard, but legacy recordings and certain metadata remain viewable and removable through the dashboard with important caveats for retention, de-identification, and cross-product differences. Background / Overview The Privacy Dashboard has long been Microsoft’s public-facing control panel...

Microsoft’s public guidance on voice data makes a clear point: voice recordings gathered by speech-recognition features are used to provide and improve services, but the way that data is collected, stored, and displayed in users’ privacy controls has changed significantly — especially since October 30, 2020. This article explains why Microsoft collects voice data, what appears (and no longer appears) on the Microsoft Privacy Dashboard, exactly how to view and clear voice-related data, and...

A Southern California resident has filed a state‑court lawsuit asking a judge to force Microsoft to continue providing free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the vendor’s announced end‑of‑support date of October 14, 2025 — a legal gambit that turns a routine lifecycle milestone into a public debate about forced obsolescence, consumer protection, and the competitive implications of Microsoft’s push to bundle generative‑AI features with Windows 11. Background / Overview Microsoft has...

If your display suddenly flips or you want to work in portrait mode for reading, coding, or design, rotating a screen is a quick, built-in option on most devices — and it’s one of those small, underrated tricks that can save time and headaches. This guide lays out every practical method to flip or rotate screens on Windows, macOS, Android, iPhone, and external monitors, explains why rotation sometimes breaks, highlights the most useful troubleshooting steps, and calls out risks and edge...

Microsoft has quietly committed to keeping Microsoft Edge and the Microsoft WebView2 Runtime updated on Windows 10 (version 22H2) for three years beyond the operating system’s end-of-support date, ensuring Edge security fixes, feature updates and WebView2 runtime improvements will continue through at least October 2028. (learn.microsoft.com, windowscentral.com) Background Microsoft’s official lifecycle calendar confirms that Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, after...

Microsoft’s move to retire Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has become more than a routine product‑lifecycle note: it has sparked a court challenge that frames the end‑of‑support as a calculated nudge — some would say a shove — toward Windows 11, AI‑optimized hardware, and paid patching options, with real consequences for security, competition, wallets and the environment. Background / Overview Microsoft has publicly scheduled the end of mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025...

SafeBreach Labs’ disclosure of four newly discovered Windows denial-of-service (DoS) flaws — and the novel “Win‑DDoS” technique they describe for turning exposed domain controllers into DDoS amplifiers — forces a hard look at how organizations harden their identity plane, patch critical servers, and monitor for protocol‑level abuse across DNS, RPC and LDAP traffic. Background: what was disclosed and why it matters SafeBreach Labs publicly documented an interrelated set of vulnerabilities and...

Microsoft’s security roadmap for Windows is increasingly explicit: stronger protections will arrive, but many of them require newer silicon and faster refresh cycles — meaning organizations that want to stay secure will need to buy into both Windows 11 (and beyond) and modern hardware platforms. What began as an aspirational 2030 vision from a senior Microsoft security executive has turned into actionable engineering work: post-quantum cryptography is already rolling into Windows Insider...

A Southern California resident has filed a last‑minute legal challenge asking a San Diego judge to halt Microsoft’s planned October 14, 2025 end of mainstream support for Windows 10 and to force the company to keep issuing free security updates until the operating system’s install base drops to a plaintiff‑defined threshold. The complaint, brought by Lawrence Klein, frames the move as more than routine product lifecycle management: it alleges Microsoft timed the sunset to push users toward...

Microsoft’s Copilot is coming to the rescue of night‑owl spreadsheet authors: the AI can now explain the formulas buried in your workbook, breaking down what each part does and why the output looks the way it does — and it does this inside the sheet so you never have to leave your workflow. rview Excel has long been the place where clever, opaque formulas accumulate — everything from nested IFs and LOOKUPs to array formulas and advanced dynamic array expressions. That power is also Excel’s...