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NTT DATA’s new, dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud formalizes a major strategic bet: the systems integrator is consolidating Microsoft-focused sales, delivery and engineering into a single, AI-first organization designed to move agentic AI and cloud modernization from pilots into production at scale for regulated and multinational enterprises. The unit — led by Senior Vice President Aishwarya Singh and backed by NTT DATA’s cloud, security and industry delivery muscle —...

A Southern California resident has filed a lawsuit asking a court to stop Microsoft from ending routine, free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, arguing the company’s lifecycle decision amounts to forced obsolescence designed to push users onto Windows 11 and into Microsoft’s AI‑centric ecosystem; the complaint seeks an extraordinary injunction requiring free Windows 10 updates to continue until the OS’s installed base falls below a plaintiff‑defined threshold. rview...

A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego is asking a court to stop Microsoft from turning off routine security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, arguing the company’s end‑of‑support timetable amounts to forced obsolescence intended to push consumers toward Windows 11 and Microsoft’s AI‑centric hardware and services. The complaint, lodged by California resident Lawrence Klein, seeks an extraordinary injunction: require Microsoft to continue providing free Windows 10 security...

Microsoft’s slow, methodical migration of legacy Control Panel functionality into the modern Settings app picked up another quiet notch with the arrival of build 26200.5742 in the Dev channel — a preview release that nudges several time-and-input features out of the old Control Panel and into Settings, and also refreshes the mobile device companion panel that appears alongside the Start menu. Background Microsoft has been moving configuration surfaces from the decades-old Control Panel into...

GitHub’s chief executive, Thomas Dohmke, has publicly backed a controversial internal Microsoft memo that urged managers to reflect on employees’ use of internal AI tools as part of performance conversations — calling the practice “totally fair game” and framing AI fluency as part of company culture rather than a narrow productivity metric. Background: what was in the memo and why it mattered In mid‑2025, an internal message circulated inside Microsoft from Julia Liuson — president of a...

A new class of Windows denial-of-service attacks revealed at DEF CON has forced a hard reckoning for enterprise defenders: vulnerabilities in LDAP handling can not only crash individual servers, they can be chained into zero-click attack flows that target Domain Controllers (DCs) and potentially turn them into unwitting participants in large-scale DDoS activity. Background Windows uses LDAP and related name-discovery protocols as the backbone for domain authentication and service discovery...

NTT DATA’s move to create a dedicated Microsoft Cloud business unit for the Middle East, Africa and beyond marks a clear strategic bet: concentrate global Microsoft expertise, certifications and delivery muscle under a single, outcome‑focused organization to accelerate cloud modernization and scale agentic AI in regulated and sovereignty‑sensitive markets. ATA has long been a major systems integrator with deep partnerships across hyperscalers; the new Microsoft Cloud unit formalizes and...

Microsoft’s short, strategic line about quantum computing on its fiscal Q4 earnings call landed as more than a slogan — it marked an inflection point that materially reshapes the commercial runway for quantum hardware vendors already integrated with the major cloud platforms, and it places IonQ squarely in the spotlight as one of the primary potential beneficiaries of a cloud-driven quantum adoption curve. Background Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella used the company’s fiscal Q4 results call to...

CellTrust’s SL2 is now listed in Microsoft AppSource and is available directly through the Microsoft Teams Store, bringing enterprise-grade mobile message capture and compliance controls into the Teams workflow and lowering the friction for regulated organisations to govern SMS, WhatsApp and Teams conversations inside the Microsoft ecosystem. Trust has long marketed SL2 as a specialist platform for capturing mobile communications—covering SMS, MMS, WhatsApp and voice—to satisfy regulatory...

A Southern California resident has filed suit in San Diego Superior Court seeking to force Microsoft to continue providing free security updates for Windows 10 after the vendor’s announced October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support date, framing the move as forced obsolescence intended to accelerate adoption of Windows 11 and Microsoft’s generative‑AI ecosystem; the complaint asks a court to order free updates until Windows 10’s installed base falls below a plaintiff‑defined threshold (reported as...

A California resident has asked a court to stop Microsoft from turning off routine updates for Windows 10 in October, alleging the company’s end‑of‑support plan amounts to forced obsolescence that steers customers toward Windows 11, Copilot‑optimized hardware, and Microsoft’s growing generative‑AI ecosystem. Background / Overview Microsoft has publicly scheduled the end of mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. After that date Microsoft says it will no longer provide feature...

Microsoft’s recent lifecycle clarification — that Microsoft Edge (and the WebView2 runtime) will continue to receive security and quality updates on Windows 10, version 22H2, well after the operating system itself reaches end-of-support — reshapes migration timelines for millions of users and thousands of organizations, but it is a partial fix that leaves significant OS‑level risk intact. Background Microsoft announced that mainstream support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025, a firm...

Microsoft is retiring the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile app and consolidating its scanning and capture capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, in a phased shutdown that begins in mid‑September and culminates with the blocking of new scans in mid‑December 2025. Background / Overview Microsoft Lens—originally launched as Office Lens for Windows Phone—became a widely used, free mobile scanner that converts photos of documents, whiteboards, receipts, and business cards into clean...

Microsoft’s Copilot 3D is a browser-based Labs experiment that converts a single JPG or PNG photo into a downloadable, editable GLB 3D model in seconds — a free, low-friction bridge from flat images to usable 3D assets that is already reshaping how hobbyists, educators, indie developers, and designers prototype ideas. rview Microsoft surfaced Copilot 3D inside the Copilot Labs sandbox as an experimental, web-only feature designed to democratize 3D asset creation. The feature accepts a single...

Microsoft’s competitive position in the software industry remains both formidable and contested: the Benzinga automated analysis frames the company as a financial and strategic bellwether among software peers, but careful cross-checking of the numbers and regulatory context shows a more nuanced reality—one of exceptional scale and cash flow, rising AI-driven revenue, premium valuation metrics, and growing regulatory and operational risks. Background / Overview Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)...

A Southern California man’s lawsuit seeking to force Microsoft to keep Windows 10 receiving free updates has turned a routine product lifecycle milestone into a high‑stakes legal and policy flashpoint that touches security, competition, environmental, and consumer‑rights questions—less than three months before Microsoft’s scheduled October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support for Windows 10. rview Microsoft has publicly scheduled the end of routine mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025...

A Southern California resident has filed suit in San Diego Superior Court asking a judge to block Microsoft’s planned October 14, 2025 end-of-support for Windows 10 and to force the company to continue providing free security updates until Windows 10’s install base falls below a plaintiff-defined threshold — a legal gambit that crystallizes the technical, environmental and competition tensions surrounding the industry’s migration to Windows 11 and AI‑capable PCs. Background / Overview...

For many longtime Windows users, the quickest and least frustrating way to get software is still downloading a vendor’s .exe and running it — a workflow that feels faster, more flexible, and more transparent than wrestling with the Microsoft Store’s UI or waiting for a stalled download. Background / Overview The debate between installing apps via the Microsoft Store or via standalone .exe (Win32) installers is no longer purely ideological. Over the last few years Microsoft has rebuilt the...

Satya Nadella’s short sentence on Microsoft’s fiscal Q4 call—“The next big accelerator in the cloud will be Quantum, and I am excited about our progress.”—was both a strategic breadcrumb and a market jolt: paired with Microsoft’s announcement of operational Level 2 quantum capability, it reframes the cloud landscape and hands a clearer runway to quantum hardware companies that are already cloud-native. For IonQ, a pure‑play trapped‑ion vendor already integrated across Azure, AWS and Google...

Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI offering is changing the calculus for enterprises that want cutting‑edge generative AI without the legal, security, and operational headaches that have historically kept the technology in research labs. The service packages OpenAI’s top models inside Azure’s enterprise-grade cloud, pairing GPT‑4o, image models such as DALL·E 3, and other multimodal engines with Azure’s security controls, data‑residency options, and contractual protections — a combination designed to...