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Microsoft's hard deadline for Windows 10 support — October 14, 2025 — has shifted the conversation for IT leaders from “if” to how fast and how wisely to move, and the time for planning alone has passed: organisations must now execute migration plans that protect security, preserve productivity, and control cost. (support.microsoft.com) Background Microsoft’s lifecycle timetable for Windows 10 is definitive: after October 14, 2025 the company will stop shipping feature updates, quality...

Honor’s new MagicBook Art 14 arrives as a slender, style-first Windows 11 laptop that tries to marry aerospace-grade materials with the latest Intel “Core Ultra” AI silicon, a dazzling 14.6‑inch OLED panel, and a removable magnetic webcam — but the headline-grabbing specs hide real-world trade-offs worth examining before you buy. (honor.com) Background The MagicBook Art 14 was unveiled alongside Honor’s Magic V5 foldable at a high‑profile event and immediately positioned as a premium...

Microsoft is adding a native, system-wide keyboard shortcut for the en dash and em dash—Win + Minus for an en dash (–) and Win + Shift + Minus for an em dash (—)—delivered as part of recent Insider builds and being rolled out gradually to Windows 11 users. (blogs.windows.com) Background Writers, editors, and anyone who uses punctuation regularly have long contended with Windows’ clumsy options for inserting typographic dashes. Historically, Windows users have relied on a handful of...

Phison’s terse lab summary — that it “was unable to reproduce” the reports that a mid‑August Windows 11 update could “brick” SSDs after more than 4,500 cumulative test hours — changed the tone of a fast‑moving controversy, but it did not close the book on a worrying, reproducible symptom set described by community testers and specialist outlets. (neowin.net) Background In the wake of Patch Tuesday on August 12, 2025, Windows 11’s combined servicing update for 24H2 — commonly tracked as...

The last Windows Weekly episode landed like a mixtape of outrage, optimism, and technical quibbling — a brisk tour through Microsoft’s week that touched on a campus lockdown, Windows 11 change-management headaches, Microsoft 365 and OneNote transitions, a sweep of AI news, several developer-facing adjustments, and a notable flurry of Xbox and gaming updates. The episode’s tone was familiar: sharp skepticism toward bungled product rollouts, cautious praise for incremental wins, and a steady...

Samsung’s Copilot has crossed the PC and phone divide and landed on living‑room screens: beginning with select 2025 Samsung TVs and Smart Monitors, Microsoft’s conversational AI is now built into the display experience as part of Samsung’s Vision AI initiative, promising voice‑first content discovery, spoiler‑safe recaps, SmartThings control, and light productivity features — free to use on supported models with optional Microsoft account personalization. ecrosoft announced the integration...

Microsoft quietly—then not so quietly—took a major step to collapse an awkward transition period: Windows 10 machines running the aging Edge Legacy (EdgeHTML) browser were slated to have that app removed and replaced by the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge via a Windows cumulative update released on April 13, 2021, turning what had been a passive recommendation into an automatic migration for most consumer devices. (blogs.windows.com) (learn.microsoft.com) Background Microsoft first shipped...

NVIDIA’s latest GeForce driver rollout — reported as version 581.15 WHQL in third‑party coverage — promises targeted stability fixes and expanded game support, but the release is surrounded by mixed signals and verification gaps that make cautious upgrading the prudent choice for gamers and creators alike. The package, as circulated in the community, claims Windows 10/11 64‑bit Desktop and Notebook installers, official support for recent AAA titles (notably Indiana Jones and the Great...

The countdown to October 14, 2025 is no longer a distant calendar note — it is a board‑level deadline that should be driving procurement, security and migration decisions across every business that still runs Windows 10. Recent regional reporting urging organisations to move from planning into action captures the moment: Microsoft will stop issuing feature and security updates for Windows 10 on that date, and the practical consequences for security, compliance and operations are immediate...

Microsoft has finally closed one of the most persistent UX gaps in PC audio: on supported Windows 11 systems, Bluetooth headsets can now deliver full stereo media audio while simultaneously using their built‑in microphone at super‑wideband quality, instead of collapsing to low‑fidelity, mono “telephone” audio the moment a voice chat or call begins. (theverge.com) Background / Overview Bluetooth audio on PCs long lived with an ugly trade‑off: legacy Bluetooth Classic split playback and voice...

Phison’s terse lab update — that its engineers “could not reproduce” the NVMe disappearances reported after a recent Windows 11 cumulative update — has shifted an alarmed headlines cycle into a cautious, technical debate about reproducibility, telemetry, and how the modern storage stack fails under extreme conditions. rview Windows 11’s mid‑August cumulative servicing (commonly tracked in community reporting as KB5063878, with a related preview KB5062660) triggered multiple independent...

Samsung’s 2025 TV and monitor lineup now plays host to Microsoft’s Copilot AI, turning living-room screens into interactive, voice‑driven companions that can summarize shows, recommend content, control smart‑home devices, and even perform light productivity tasks on supported monitors. (microsoft.com, news.samsung.com) Background Samsung and Microsoft announced a partnership to embed Microsoft Copilot into Samsung’s 2025 smart TVs and Smart Monitors as part of Samsung’s broader Vision AI...

Life Without Barriers’ recent security refresh shows how human‑services organisations can use integrated Microsoft tooling to both reduce risk and free frontline staff for the work that matters. Background / Overview Life Without Barriers (LWB), one of Australia’s largest human‑services nonprofits, has moved from a fragmented, legacy IT estate toward a unified security and data‑governance posture built on Microsoft technologies. The organisation — which Microsoft and LWB materials state...

Asus and Microsoft have taken the wraps off the ROG Xbox Ally family — two Windows 11 handhelds that marry ASUS’ ROG hardware design with an Xbox‑layered, controller‑first Windows experience — and they arrive on store shelves on October 16, 2025, positioning themselves as direct rivals to Nintendo’s Switch family and Valve’s Steam Deck. (press.asus.com) Background The handheld market that once seemed niche has been remade over the past three years by Valve’s Steam Deck and a wave of...

Phison’s lab campaign—more than 4,500 cumulative test hours and some 2,200 cycles—says it could not reproduce the Windows 11 KB5063878 “vanishing SSD” reports, but the episode still exposes a brittle cross‑stack interaction that administrators, gamers, and system builders should treat as a live risk until a joint, auditable post‑mortem is published. (tomshardware.com) (neowin.net) Background / Overview In mid‑August 2025 Microsoft shipped its Windows 11 24H2 cumulative update (commonly...

Microsoft has finally ended one of PC audio’s most stubborn compromises: on supported systems running Windows 11, Bluetooth headsets can now deliver stereo, high‑fidelity media audio at the same time their built‑in microphone captures voice at super‑wideband quality, rather than collapsing audio into low‑quality mono the instant the mic is used. Background / Overview For more than a decade the Bluetooth audio story on PCs has been defined by a trade‑off baked into older Bluetooth profiles...

Samsung’s 2025 TV and smart‑monitor lineup now ships with Microsoft Copilot built into the on‑screen experience, bringing a voice‑first, animated AI companion to the living room and home office and signaling a decisive pivot in how major TV makers are stacking conversational AI into the product — after Google Assistant support was removed from Samsung sets in 2024. (microsoft.com) (news.samsung.com) (samsung.com) Background / Overview Samsung and Microsoft announced on August 27, 2025, that...

Satya Nadella says he now runs parts of his day with GPT‑5 inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, sharing five concrete prompts that have moved the assistant from a helpful tool to a strategic layer in his schedule, meeting prep, project assessment and risk spotting. Background Microsoft’s rapid roll‑out of GPT‑5 across the Copilot family is more than a headline — it’s a platform pivot. In early August 2025 Microsoft began embedding the GPT‑5 model family into Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot...

AudioCodes' Voca Conversational Interaction Center (CIC) has been certified under Microsoft’s Teams Unify model and immediately leveraged that validation to claim another industry accolade — winning UC Today’s 2025 Best Microsoft Teams Contact Center award — a development that tightens the vendor’s Microsoft-first positioning and raises practical questions for IT teams about reliability, deployment models, and AI governance. (audiocodes.com) Background Microsoft’s Teams ecosystem has evolved...

Microsoft’s Windows Backup for Organizations has moved out of limited preview and into general availability for commercial customers — a tenant-scoped, Intune-integrated service that captures curated Windows settings and Microsoft Store app manifests to accelerate device refreshes, reimages, and Windows 10 → Windows 11 migrations. (support.microsoft.com) Background Windows Backup for Organizations is the enterprise-grade evolution of the consumer Windows Backup experience, redesigned to work...