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Microsoft has quietly widened the palette of AI brains available inside Microsoft 365 Copilot by adding two of Anthropic’s Claude models—Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1—so enterprise users can now pick the model that best fits a task instead of relying solely on OpenAI’s offerings. Background Microsoft’s move to add Anthropic models to Microsoft 365 Copilot was announced in late September 2025 and represents a clear shift toward multi‑model choice inside the productivity assistant many...

Microsoft has quietly but decisively retooled the architecture of Microsoft 365 Copilot: Anthropic’s Claude family — specifically Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 — is now a selectable backend inside key Copilot surfaces, giving organizations real model choice inside Researcher and Copilot Studio while keeping OpenAI and Microsoft models fully in the mix. Background / Overview Microsoft built Copilot as a productivity-first layer that extends Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams...

Microsoft’s deadline for Windows 10 support is real, immovable, and just weeks away: on October 14, 2025 Microsoft will stop shipping routine feature, quality and security updates for consumer Windows 10, and that forces every Windows 10 user to make a clear, time‑bound decision now. Background / Overview Microsoft set October 14, 2025 as the formal end‑of‑support date for Windows 10. After that date, the operating system will still boot and run, but Microsoft will no longer provide the...

Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 deadline for Windows 10 support creates an unavoidable security and operational inflection point: tens or hundreds of millions of devices will either move to a maintained platform or begin aging into unsupported status that attracts attackers, complicates compliance, and raises difficult procurement and environmental trade‑offs. Background Microsoft formally states that Windows 10 mainstream support ends on October 14, 2025 — after that date routine software...

The business world is now visibly split into two camps on artificial intelligence: cautious skeptics who see adoption as overhyped and risky, and pragmatic realists who treat AI as a powerful but manageable productivity lever—and that split is already reshaping strategy, culture, and investment decisions across enterprises. Background Recent research paints a stark picture. A survey of 900 AI leaders by The Adaptavist Group found that 42% of respondents consider their company’s AI claims...

Microsoft just reversed course for millions of users in the European Economic Area: Windows 10 owners in those countries can enroll in the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program at no cost for one year, but the lifeline comes with strict limits, mandatory account ties, and a fast-approaching deadline that requires immediate action for anyone who wants to avoid an unsupported, increasingly risky PC after October 14, 2025. Background Microsoft set a hard end-of-support date for...

If Xbox Game Bar on Windows 11 is misbehaving — failing to open, crashing during captures, or refusing to show overlays — a targeted reset is the fastest, least destructive way to restore its default behavior and recover recording functionality. Background / Overview Xbox Game Bar is a tightly integrated Windows 11 overlay that provides quick access to recording, performance widgets, audio control, and social features. Because it’s distributed as a modern AppX/MSIX package and interacts with...

Universities across the United States — from Yale’s secured Clarity platform to MIT’s mandatory disclosure guidance, from UCLA’s campus-wide ChatGPT Enterprise deal to the California State University system’s sweeping ChatGPT Edu rollout — are moving beyond emergency memos and one-off bans to patchwork strategies that mix enterprise partnerships, instructor-level rules, and systemwide literacy programs as they try to make generative AI usable, equitable, and auditable for students and staff...

Sam Altman’s throwaway‑turned‑benchmark — that a future model such as “GPT‑8” would qualify as true AGI if it solved quantum gravity and could narrate the reasoning behind that discovery — has ignited a fresh round of debate about what counts as artificial general intelligence and what a meaningful test for it would even look like. Background / Overview The remark came during a public conversation in Berlin where OpenAI’s CEO and British physicist David Deutsch — a pioneer in quantum...

Microsoft’s latest push to collapse the friction around cloud migration and application modernization pairs GitHub Copilot’s app-modernization capabilities, expanded Azure Migrate discovery and remediation, and a commercial package called Azure Accelerate—backed by the Cloud Accelerate Factory—into a single, programmatic pathway designed to shorten migrations from months to weeks (or, in vendor messaging, days) while reducing upfront cost and resourcing risk. Background / Overview...

Microsoft has quietly released Windows 10 update KB5066198 as an optional cumulative preview for version 22H2, and the package — available through Windows Update and as offline .msu installers on the Microsoft Update Catalog — brings targeted bug fixes (not new consumer features) ahead of Windows 10’s scheduled end-of-support on October 14, 2025. Background / Overview Windows 10’s mainstream support clock is running down: Microsoft has repeatedly confirmed that Windows 10 (consumer and...

Microsoft’s latest change to the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10 has shifted the conversation from “if” to “how” millions of PCs will stay protected after support ends — but the new rules come with regional strings and urgent deadlines that every Windows user and IT pro needs to understand right now. Background Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 mainstream support ends on October 14, 2025, and that a consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program will deliver...

Clipboard History is the kind of quietly powerful Windows convenience that rewards discovery: it turns one-shot copy‑and‑paste into a small, persistent workspace you can use for snippets, images, and recurring text — and yet Microsoft rarely sings its praises as loudly as it does for splashier features. Background Clipboard History debuted as part of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update and has since become a standard productivity tool in both Windows 10 and Windows 11. The feature can be...

Microsoft’s push to make on-device AI a first-class citizen on Windows hit a significant milestone with the general availability of Windows ML, a system-managed inferencing runtime designed to make it dramatically easier for developers to ship AI features that run efficiently across CPUs, GPUs and NPUs on Windows 11 devices. Background / Overview Windows ML arrives as Microsoft’s answer to a persistent developer problem: how to deliver performant, private and consistent AI experiences across...

OpenAI’s refresh of Codex — now branded and promoted as GPT‑5‑Codex — is a deliberate pivot toward making AI agents practical teammates for software engineering, not just clever autocomplete. The update stitches together faster interactive pairing, longer-running autonomous project work, and tighter integrations across terminals, IDEs, cloud sandboxes, GitHub, and mobile, promising meaningful developer productivity gains while raising fresh questions about reliability, governance, and cost...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer a curiosity — it’s a built-in assistant, a paid enterprise tool, and an arms‑length feature in Windows and Office that many users will encounter whether they actively sought it or not. Background / Overview Microsoft uses the single brand name Copilot for a family of AI assistants that span the operating system, web browser, Microsoft 365 apps, and standalone mobile/desktop experiences. At a high level there are two related products to understand: Windows...

Law firms that once greeted generative AI with skepticism are being won over not by flashy demos but by a pragmatic combination of clear governance, focused pilots, executive sponsorship, and internal “champions” who translate promise into defensible practice. Background The legal profession’s reaction to generative AI has followed a recognizably conservative arc: curiosity and experimentation, followed by pockets of frequent ad‑hoc use, and now a push toward governed, auditable deployment...

South Africans report high familiarity with artificial intelligence and near‑ubiquitous everyday use, but they remain cautious about delegating high‑stakes decisions to machines — and the gap between convenience and trust could shape business strategy, regulation and workplace practice across the country. Background / Overview The latest coverage of an infoQuest survey, published in national outlets, paints a picture of a South African public that knows AI, uses AI, and nevertheless...

The U.S. House of Representatives has quietly reversed a year‑and‑a‑half‑old prohibition on Microsoft Copilot, approving a pilot rollout that will put Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat into the hands of thousands of House staffers — a move that signals both a major vote of confidence for Microsoft’s AI stack and a pivotal moment for government adoption of generative AI. Background Last year the House Office of Cybersecurity barred staff from using Microsoft Copilot after security...

Microsoft has confirmed that it has ceased and disabled a set of cloud and AI services provided to a unit within Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an internal review found evidence consistent with media reporting alleging the misuse of Azure for large-scale civilian surveillance. Background In early August, investigative reporting raised a global alarm by alleging that an Israeli military intelligence unit had used Microsoft Azure to store and process recordings and metadata from millions...