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Shopify and Google’s announcement of the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) marks a decisive step toward a world where AI agents not only recommend products but complete purchases, manage subscriptions, and handle post‑purchase support — all inside conversational interfaces. For small businesses that depend on discovery, conversion, and customer trust, the move from click‑through commerce to agentic commerce changes where, how, and with whom you compete. This article explains what UCP is, how...

Microsoft has issued emergency, out‑of‑band Windows updates to fix two functional regressions introduced by its January 2026 Patch Tuesday rollup — one that breaks Remote Desktop sign‑ins in certain cloud and remote‑session scenarios, and another that causes some Windows 11 systems with System Guard Secure Launch enabled to reboot instead of shutting down or hibernating. These targeted quality updates restore access to Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 sessions for affected clients and...

Microsoft’s latest permissionsush to make Windows an “agentic” operating system — with Copilot surfacing everywhere and autonomous agents that can act on users’ behalf — has catalyzed a furious mix of technical criticism, security warnings, and viral mockery that together answer the question on many minds: yes, Microsoft has gone much further into AI-first Windows than most users expected, and that choice is creating real friction across performance, privacy, security, and trust. Background...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer just a chat box you open in a browser — it’s increasingly an operating‑system feature on Windows 11 and a tightly gated set of on‑device experiences that Windows 10 simply can’t match. The difference isn’t cosmetic: it changes what the assistant can do on your machine. If you’re stubbornly sticking with a non‑upgradeable Windows 10 laptop, here’s a deep, practical look at what you’re actually missing, how Microsoft’s product and hardware strategy drives that...

Microsoftosoft’s January cumulative update for Windows 11, published as KB5074109 on January 13, 2026, delivered a heavy bundle of security fixes and an NPU-related battery optimization—but it also coincided with a wave of high-impact regressions that have left gamers and some enterprise customers choosing between security and usability. Reports from community forums and editorial test labs describe persistent frame-rate losses on systems with NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, intermittent black-screen...

Agenticonstraints checkout has crossed an important threshold: what was once a demo-room thought experiment is now live across multiple major AI platforms, and the technology is reshaping how discovery, selection, payment, and post‑purchase flows are stitched together inside conversational interfaces. Over the past 12–18 months leading into early 2026, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Perplexity and Amazon have each moved to let AI agents not only recommend products but actively assemble carts...

Overcut’s approach to agentic automation is a study in restraint: deliver autonomous, multi‑step workflows that actually fit inside enterprise operational boundaries rather than promising unbounded autonomy. The company builds its execution plane on Azure primitives—AKS for orchestration, Azure AD identities for workload access, ACR for verified runtimes, Event Hubs for the workflow bus, Premium Azure Files for shared storage, and a per‑workspace Azure OpenAI deployment for model...

Microsoft’s new retail playbook makes a bold claim: the next frontier of store experience will be run by agentic AI—robots and software agents that sense the environment, reason about priorities, and interact naturally with cused tomers and staff—moving intelligence from dashboards and back offices onto the sales floor itself. view The business case Microsoft lays out for what it calls Frontier Transformation is straightforward and urgent. Retailers face rising customer expectations, tighter...

Cosmos has launched a dedicated APAC distributor and services arm, Cosmos APAC, establishing a regional hub meant to accelerate adoption of its cloud-native reporting and analytics platform for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central across Asia–Pacific. Background Cosmos is positioned as a cloud-first reporting and analytics platform purpose-built for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. The company’s announcement describes Cosmos APAC as an independent, New Zealand–headquartered...

Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool still provides the simplest path to downloadd Windows 10 and build a bootable USB flash drive or DVD, but the landscape around Windows 10 has changed: Windows 10 reached end‑of‑life in October 2025, the Media Creation Tool has seen intermittent compatibility issues, and power users often prefer alternative tools such as Rufus or Ventoy for better control and reliability. c Overview This feature walks through the modern, reliable ways to download Windows 10...

Microsoft’s January security rollup introduced urgent reliability problems that forced the company to ship emergency, out‑of‑band (OOB) patches days later — fixes you should install now if your device shows the symptoms described below. Background / Overview Microsoft’s regular Patch Tuesday for January 2026 (released January 13) delivered a large security rollup across Windows servicing branches. Within hours and days of that release, telemetry and user reports revealed two distinct...

Samsung’s AKG‑branded USB‑C earbuds, a short how‑to on NVIDIA’s Control Panelanel for Windows 10, and a practical guide to getting Bose QuietComfort 35 II working on Windows 10 — three lightweight Born2Invest items supplied for this feature add up to an instructive set of issues that matter to Windows users: hardware teardowns reveal hidden silicon and capability limits, store‑distributed system utilities are changing how OEMs surface controls to users, and longstanding Bluetooth quirks...

Windows 11’s PowerToys just got a refresh that mixes arcade nostalgia with serious productivity upgrades: a new CursorWrap utility that literally warps your mouse like an old-school arcade spaceship, and a deep rework of the Command Palette that pulls more of PowerToys’ functionality into a single, keyboard-first surface. Background PowerToys has evolved from a grab-bag of desktop experiments into a modular productivity platform for power users on Windows 10 and Windows 11. Over the past...

Microsoft’s January cumulative for Windows 11—released as KB5074109 on January 13, 2026—was intended to deliver critical security fixes and platform improvements, but instead triggered a cascade of disruptive regressions: brief black-screen/display freezes on some desktops, classic Outlook (POP) profiles that refuse to exit cleanly, and authentication failures that broke Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 sign‑ins for many customers; Microsoft shipped targeted out‑of‑band (OOB) updates...

Artificial intelligence tools have moved from niche lab projects into the center of everyday Windows workflows, and the numbers behind that shift are now impossible to ignore: market telemetry shows OpenAI’s ChatGPT controlling an overwhelming share of AI chatbot web traffic, analyst reports place the chatbot market in the tens of billions of dollars over the next five years, and enterprise case studies claim dramatic productivity and cost improvements—while some widely quoted adoption...

Microsoft’s securityy playbook for 2026 centers on four interlocking priorities that together reframe identity as the primary control plane for defending modern networks: deploy AI-driven protection at operational speed, treat AI agents as governed identities, stitch identity and network controls into a single Access Fabric, and harden the identity foundation with phishing‑resistant authentication and robust recovery. These priorities reflect an urgent shift from static, perimeter-based...

Microsoft is quietly testing two practical — and potentially game‑changing — enterprise controls in Microsoft Edge for Business: dynamic watermarking on protected content and a protected clipboard that warns or blocks paste operations outside managed boundaries. The features arrived in preview streams alongside Microsoft’s wider Copilot Mode and security controls announced at Ignite, and they are already shaping how organizations think about browser‑level data protection, DLP integration...

A quietly dangerous interaction between Azure Private Link’s DNS behavior and well-meaning Private Endpoint deployments can produce an unexpected denial-of-service effect across tenant resources — and defenders need to treat it like a design flaw, not merely a documentation footnote. Unit 42’s investigation shows how creating Private Endpoints or Private DNS zone links in one virtual network can force DNS resolution down a path that returns NXDOMAIN for the same resource from other VNets...

Microsoft’s announcement that the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Packs for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) are deprecanted — with support ending in January 2027 — is a tectonic shift for enterprises that still rely on on‑premises, SCOM‑centric telemetry. This move pushes Microsoft’s recommended monitoring path toward Azure Monitor + Azure Arc + Log Analytics, replaces a long‑standing...

PowerToys 0.97 lands with a focused, user‑facing refresh of the Command Palette, a practical new mouse utility called CursorWrap, expanded command‑line controls for several modules, and a collection of polish and safety tweaks that make the suite more customizable and more scriptable for power users and IT pros alike. Overview PowerToys has quietly become one of the most useful productivity toolkits for Windows power users. Version 0.97 continues that trend by turning the Command Palette —...