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I stopped getting predictable hour‑long crashes in a modern PC game by running a tiny, portable utility that watches Windows’ memory standby list and purges it before cached pages starve the game for usable RAM — an unglamorous, surgical workaround that fixed what looked like a memory‑management problem without reinstalling drivers, swapping hardware, or touching the game itself. rview Windows aggressively caches recently used data in the standby list so disk reads are faster and the system...

Microsoft has released an ARM-compatible version of the Xbox App for Windows 11, marketrking a major step in making Game Pass and the broader Xbox PC experience available — both locally and via cloud — to ARM-based Windows 11 devices. The move pairs a refreshed Xbox client with recent improvements to Windows’ Prism x86/x64-to-Arm translation layer and expanding anti-cheat support, creating a clear pathway for many Game Pass titles to run on Snapdragon- and other Arm‑powered PCs. Microsoft...

WSP’s large-scale rollout of Microsoftoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio marks a decisive move to use generative AI to reclaim engineers’ and scientists’ time, shorten validation cycles on infrastructure projects, and tackle the long‑running productivity malaise in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) sector. review The announcement and case materials describe a formal, multi‑year strategic partnership between WSP and Microsoft that folds Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio...

Ricoh’s decision to centralize cybersecurity capability into a European-based Global Security Operation Centre (GSOC) — built with PwC’s consulting and engineering support — marks a decisive pivot from product-led to service-led growth, and it lays out a replicable blueprint for other hardware-focused vendors transforming into managed security providers. Background Ricoh’s long history as a global imaging and electronics company positioned it well to notice a market inflection: customers...

Cosmos’ new APAC distribution move marks a deliberate push to regionalize Business Central reporting services, with Cosmos Data Technologies APAC Limited (Cosmos APAC) — led by Tim Turner and co-founders from New Zealand — appointed as the exclusive distributor and primary services provider for the Asia-Pacific region, in a deal announced January 20, 2026. The shift extends Cosmos’ already expanding distributor network (which includes UK and Benelux partners) and positions a locally based...

Microsoft’s January servicing wave has produced a messy and consequential regression: a cumulativetive update released on January 13, 2026 (KB5074109) introduced a file-access problem that can leave apps — most notably classic Microsoft Outlook when its PST files live in OneDrive or other cloud-synced folders — freezing, failing to save, or re-downloading messages, and Microsoft’s emergency responses and interim guidance have left administrators and users juggling security vs. stability...

In a rare bit of good news for people who still want their Windows desktop to act like a local desktop, OneDrive’s Folder Backup (Known Folder Move) on Windows 11 has quietly gained a better undo flow — in some builds you can now stop folder backup and have OneDrive move your files back to the local profile automatically — even as the wider problem of aggressive, sometimes hard‑to‑notice defaults remains unresolved. Background / Overview OneDrive’s Folder Backup (also commonly called Known...

Microsoft has acknowledged a serious regression in the January 13, 2026 Windows cumulative update that can leave Outlook (classic Win32 client) unusable for many users — particularly those running POP accounts or storing PST files on cloud‑backed storage such as OneDrive. The company’s support notices now list the issue as investigating, advise affected users to use webmail until a fix is available, and recommend moving PST files out of OneDrive or uninstalling the January update as...

If you’ve ever wished Windows handled app installs and updates the way Linux does — predictable, scriptable, and fast — you already have the tool you need built into modern Windows: the Windows Package Manager, aka WinGet. This command-line utility removes the repetitive clicking and guesswork from installing and updating apps, and once you learn a small set of commands you can provision a new PC, keep dozens of apps current, and create reproducible app lists with minimal fuss. Background /...

Microsoft has quietly lifted a major barrier for gaming on Arm-powered Windows PCs: the Xbox PC app now runs on Arm-based Windows 11 machines and can install and run supported titles locally, turning many devices that were previously streaming-first into legitimate, playable Windows gaming platforms. This change is the visible outcome of a year-long push across emulation, graphics drivers, anti‑cheat middleware, and store/client capabilities—work that transforms the Xbox app from a...

Microsoft’s January security roll-up for Windows 11, released as KB5074109 on January 13, 2026, has left a swath of classic Outlook users with a client that hangs, fails to close cleanly, and in some reported cases does not record sent messages — behavior that can lead to lost or unsynced mail and a major productivity hit for home users and IT admins alike. Background Microsoft shipped KB5074109 as part of its January 2026 security updates for Windows 11. The patch was intended to deliver...

Amazon is ending a quietly consequential beack‑end practice that has existed for years: starting March 31, 2026, Amazon will stop “commingling” identical SKUs across sellers in its fulfillment network, and will require stricter barcode and labeling rules that split inventory along seller and brand lines—an operational pivot aimed at restoring traceability and trust, but one that will reshape logistics, costs, and marketplace power dynamics for millions of sellers and buyers. Background /...

The era of passive applications is ending: AI agents are already reasoning, deciding, invoking tools, and acting across cloud and endpoint environments — and that shift demands a fundamentally different security posture than anything most organizations have prepared for. ]) Background: why agents change the security equation AI agents are not merely “smarter scripts.” They are composite runtimes that bind models, toolkits, data grounding, identities, and orchestration logic into autonomous...

Spinx’s move to unify its data across systems with LevelShift and Microsoft Fabric is a textbook example of how a modern, cloud-first data foundation can turn fragmented operational data into timely, actionable insight—and lay the groundwork for AI-driven business processes. Background / Overview Spinx, a South Carolina convenience and fuel retail operator, confronted a familiar problem: multiple transactional systems (Oracle, SQL Server, third‑party platforms), manual data handling, and...

Satya Nadella’s message at Davos — that AI is a “cognitive amplifier” with access to “infinite minds” and that energy will decide winners in the AI race — is less a CEO soundbite than a strategic roadmap for how Microsoft expects the next phase of generative AI to be built, governed and priced. He argued that AI’s basic unit — tokens — is becoming a global commodity whose value depends on how cheaply and responsibly societies can convert electricity and compute into useful economic outcomes...

Windows 11 users across forums and social channels woke up to the same infuriating symptom: built‑in and Store‑installed apps that used to open instantly—Notepad, Snipping Tool, some vendor control utilities and even game launchers—refuse to start and return error code 0x803f8001 (often accompanied by File system error (-2143322111)). The immediate takeaway is simple but important: this is not a harmless UI glitch; the operating system is failing to validate app licensing or app...

NVIDIA’s announcement that Arknights: Endfield ships on PC with day‑one support for DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation — claiming an average 3× frame‑rate uplift at 4K on GeForce RTX 50 Series — is the clearest example yet of how vendor-level AI upscaling and frame synthesis are reshaping launch‑day performance expectations for modern PC games. This development is both an opportunity and a caution for players, streamers, and hardware buyers: the performance headroom is real on paper, but the...

Microsoft’s January cumulative for Windows 11, KB5074109, was intended to close security holes and fix a handful of nagging bugs — but its rollout on January 13, 2026 quickly produced a string of regressions that have left enterprise admins and everyday users juggling stability vs. security decisions across desktops, VDI, and cloud PC environments. Background / Overview KB5074109 (OS Builds 26200.7623 and 26100.7623) is the cumulative security update Microsoft published on January 13, 2026...

The Xbox app is now officially avariousailable on Arm-based Windows 11 PCs, marking a clear inflection in Microsoft’s long-term effort to make Windows on Arm a viable platform for mainstream PC gaming and not just a streaming-only or niche experiment. Background and overview Microsoft announced on January 21, 2026, that the Xbox app is now supported on all Arm-based Windows 11 PCs, enabling players to download and play locally where titles are compatible and to use Xbox Cloud Gaming as a...

If you like a clean desktop and want your wallpaper to shine without the taskbar getting in the way, TranslucentTB is a small, free utility that does exactly what PCWorld described: it makes the Windows taskbar transparent, or blurry, acrylic, or opaque — and it does so with just a click from the system tray. The app is open-source, lightweight by design, and available from the Microsoft Store or GitHub releases; it supports both Windows 10 and Windows 11, offers per‑state and dynamic modes...