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Microsoft is retiring the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile app and folding its scanning and capture capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app in a phased shutdown that begins on September 15, 2025 and culminates with the ability to create new scans being disabled on December 15, 2025 — a consolidation that preserves core OCR and cloud‑save functionality but leaves several convenience and accessibility features behind at launch, forcing a practical migration for millions of...

GitHub’s CEO change and the company’s shift into Microsoft’s CoreAI orbit mark a decisive moment: a once-independent code-hosting giant is being steered closer into the heart of Microsoft’s AI strategy, and that realignment raises strategic upside for AI-first development — plus challenging questions about autonomy, developer trust, and the future of platform governance. Background Thomas Dohmke, who became GitHub’s CEO in November 2021, has announced he will step away from the role and not...

Satya Nadella’s brief but pointed line on Microsoft’s most recent earnings call — that “the next big accelerator in the cloud will be Quantum” — arrived with more than rhetoric: it was paired with a technical milestone Microsoft describes as a deployed Level 2 quantum capability and explicit progress toward reliable logical qubits. That combination of strategic framing plus demonstrable engineering progress reshapes the commercial runway for quantum hardware vendors already integrated into...

NTT DATA has created a dedicated global business unit for the Microsoft Cloud to accelerate enterprise-grade, AI-driven business transformation — a move that consolidates Microsoft-focused sales, delivery, engineering, and industry expertise under a single, AI-first organization intended to move “agentic” AI and cloud modernization from pilots into regulated production environments. Background / Overview NTT DATA’s announcement formalizes a strategic deepening of its long-standing...

Do you want a quick summary, a fact-check against Microsoft’s announcement, or a longer article/analysis (I can write a 2,000+ word piece)? Quick 2‑sentence summary: Neowin reports Microsoft is introducing a “loaner” Cloud PC capability (called Windows 365 Reserve in Microsoft’s announcement) that lets organizations temporarily assign a Cloud PC to a user whose primary device is offline or being repaired. I can verify the exact limits, eligibility, and rollout details from Microsoft’s...

Microsoft has clarified that Microsoft Edge — and the Microsoft WebView2 Runtime — will continue to receive security and quality updates on Windows 10 (version 22H2) through at least October 2028, even though the Windows 10 operating system itself reaches its end-of-support milestone on October 14, 2025. Background Microsoft announced a firm end-of-support date for Windows 10, with mainstream updates and standard security servicing scheduled to stop on October 14, 2025. That deadline has...

A California resident has filed suit asking a court to stop Microsoft from turning off routine, free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, arguing that the company’s end‑of‑support timetable amounts to forced obsolescence meant to accelerate purchases of Windows 11–capable hardware and adoption of Microsoft’s generative‑AI features such as Copilot. Background Microsoft’s public lifecycle calendar sets October 14, 2025 as the official end‑of‑support date for Windows 10. After...

Microsoft’s internal analysis of roughly 200,000 anonymized Copilot conversations has delivered a stark, counterintuitive message: the next wave of AI disruption is targeting knowledge work—writers, translators, editors, customer service agents, and even some technical roles—far more visibly than the manual, physical jobs that dominated past automation waves. rnot rely on speculative modelling or employer surveys. Instead, the team mined actual user behavior—what people asked Copilot to do...

Microsoft is retiring the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile app and moving its scanning and capture capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app in a phased shutdown that begins in mid‑September and completes by mid‑December, a shift that will reshape how millions of users scan documents, business cards, receipts, and whiteboards on phones. rview Microsoft Lens — originally launched under the Office Lens name as a lightweight mobile scanner — became a quietly indispensable utility...

CellTrust’s SL2 is now listed in Microsoft AppSource and available directly through the Microsoft Teams Store, bringing enterprise-grade mobile message capture and compliance tooling into the Teams workflow and lowering procurement friction for regulated organisations. Background CellTrust has for years positioned SL2 as a specialist platform that records and archives mobile communications—SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, and related chat channels—for regulated industries that must meet strict...

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...