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Parallels Desktop turns running Windows on a Mac from a technical workaround into a usable, supported workflow—installing Windows as a virtual machine inside macOS, with features such as Coherence Mode, shared folders, and tight integration that make Windows apps behave like native macOS apps. llels Desktop is a commercial virtualization product that creates a virtual machine (VM) on macOS and installs Windows inside that VM, so Windows runs as an “app” rather than as a separate...

Maintaining a Virtual Private Server (VPS) is less a one-off setup task and more an ongoing discipline: apply updates on schedule, lock down access, automate backups, monitor performance, and test recovery so your services stay fast, available, and secure. The practical, seven‑point playbook that follows condenses operational best practices from a comprehensive guide on VPS hygiene while adding verification, risk notes, and implementation details to help sysadmins and site owners turn...

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HP’s Back to School blitz makes a bold promise: “Save up to 70%” on select 4‑star and 5‑star home laptops — but the real story is in the details. Shoppers will find deep discounts, bundle incentives and student-focused extras on the HP store right now, yet the savings and value vary dramatically by model, configuration and stock levels. This feature unpacks what’s genuinely on offer, verifies the key claims, cross‑checks specifications and reviews of the headline HP models you’re likely to...

AMD’s new Ryzen 7 9700X arrived with a headline-grabbing claim — that Zen 5 would overtake Intel’s Core i7-14700K in gaming — but real-world testing, Windows patches, BIOS updates and power measurements have turned that simple story into a complex one about test methodology, OS-level branch prediction fixes, and platform efficiency. The short version: AMD revised its public projections and now says the 9700X is broadly on par with Intel’s 14700K when both platforms are tested with...

Windows 11’s taskbar clock just got a serious upgrade — without Microsoft — thanks to a Windhawk mod that lets you display custom date/time formats alongside system telemetry (CPU, RAM, network), weather, news headlines, extra timezones and flexible styling right inside the clock area. Background Windows 11's taskbar clock has been a small but persistent complaint among power users who want more information at a glance. Microsoft experimented with a simplified two-line clock and then backed...

Microsoft’s countdown to the end of Windows 10 has moved from calendar reminder to courtroom headline, with a California plaintiff alleging that the company’s support wind‑down needlessly jeopardizes user data and is designed to push customers into an AI‑optimized hardware refresh—an accusation that crystallizes many of the debates running through the Windows ecosystem right now. This article breaks down the facts, the technical mechanics of the transition, the specifics of the lawsuit, and...

Microsoft’s Windows ecosystem kept up a steady drumbeat of wins and weirdness this week: a puzzling Game Bar regression that appears to blunt performance on some AMD Ryzen X3D rigs, fresh Windows 11 preview builds pushing more Control Panel settings into Settings, a major Copilot/AI push that now includes GPT‑5 and new 3D features, a sizable performance uplift for Microsoft Edge, and browser turbulence at Mozilla. The developments matter because they touch three areas Windows users care...

Microsoft has quietly moved to rationalize Windows Search by consolidating multiple search-related settings pages into a single, clearer settings hub in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27919, the latest Canary-channel release — a small but meaningful step toward taming an increasingly scattered Settings app and a visible sign that Microsoft is prioritizing discoverability and configuration hygiene even as it tests more ambitious AI-driven features elsewhere in the OS. Background / Overview...

Microsoft’s decision to end routine support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has suddenly become the subject of a courtroom showdown—and the consequences reach far beyond one plaintiff's grievance: millions of users face security risks, confusing enrollment rules for Extended Security Updates (ESU), and a fast-moving market push toward Windows 11 and AI‑optimized hardware. Overview A consumer lawsuit filed in California challenges Microsoft’s plan to discontinue free updates for Windows...

Microsoft’s Mu model has quietly recharted what “local AI” can look like on a personal PC, turning Windows 11 from a cloud-first assistant host into a platform for high-speed, privacy-conscious on-device language understanding — and doing it by design for Neural Processing Units (NPUs) in Copilot+ hardware. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Mu is a micro-sized, task-specific language model engineered to run efficiently on NPUs in Copilot+ Windows 11 devices. The model was built to power a...

Microsoft’s planned retirement of the Microsoft Lens mobile app marks a clear turning point for developers and operations teams inside fintech startups across Asia — and it forces a strategic rethink of document capture, OCR pipelines, and compliance workflows that many companies treated as solved problems until now. Microsoft has set a phased retirement schedule that begins on September 15, 2025, disables new installs in the app stores in mid‑October, removes the app in mid‑November, and...

Microsoft’s Copilot just crossed a major milestone: the Copilot family — from Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot to Azure AI Foundry and the consumer Copilot apps on Windows and Edge — has been upgraded to use OpenAI’s new GPT‑5 models, and a built‑in Smart Mode now dynamically routes work between lighter, faster models and the deeper‑reasoning GPT‑5 variants. This change is more than a behind‑the‑scenes model swap: it’s a deliberate redesign of how AI assistance is delivered across...

Microsoft’s decision to retire the popular Microsoft Lens (formerly Office Lens) mobile scanning app marks a significant change for millions of casual and enterprise users who rely on its fast, reliable capture and OCR workflows — the retirement begins on September 15, 2025, the app will be removed from app stores on November 15, 2025, and the ability to create new scans inside Lens stops on December 15, 2025. Background / Overview Microsoft Lens launched as Office Lens years ago as a...

Sam Altman shrugged off Elon Musk’s latest public broadside over OpenAI’s GPT-5 and its tight relationship with Microsoft, casting the feud as noise while Microsoft moved to embed the new model across its core products and OpenAI doubled down on productized, agentic AI delivery. Background: why this exchange matters now The exchange threads together three high‑stakes strands: the public rivalry between two founding figures of the modern AI era, the commercialization and platform integration...

The terse exchange that followed OpenAI’s public rollout of GPT‑5—Elon Musk’s headline-grabbing “OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive” and Satya Nadella’s measured rejoinder—did far more than entertain social feeds; it crystallized a complex rearrangement of power, dependency, and product strategy at the heart of the modern AI economy. The moment exposed both the technical steps Microsoft and OpenAI are taking to push reasoning-capable models into production and the geopolitical...

Microsoft has announced it will retire the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile app and fold its scanning capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app, beginning a phased retirement that starts on September 15, 2025, leads to the removal of Lens from app stores by mid‑November, and stops the creation of new scans inside the Lens app after December 15, 2025. Background Microsoft Lens — originally launched as Office Lens on Windows Phone and later rebranded — has long been a simple, free...

Microsoft’s August Windows 11 update is less a routine patch and more a clear statement of intent: the OS is evolving into an AI-first platform where the system sees, suggests, and—when asked—acts, on behalf of the user. Background Microsoft has been steadily folding AI into Windows for more than a year, but the August rollout accelerates that strategy with features that range from immediately useful (smarter screenshots, a practical color picker) to potentially transformational (Copilot...