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IBM’s Enterprise Advantage packages IBM Consulting’s internal deliveryivery platform and playbooks into an asset‑based consulting service designed to help large organizations build, govern and operate internal AI platforms at scale, while explicitly supporting multi‑cloud environments and both open‑ and closed‑source models. Background IBM has repackaged elements of its internal AI tooling and delivery methodology—originally branded as IBM Consulting Advantage—into a commercial offering...

Microsoft moved quickly this week to ccontain a surprising reliability regression in Windows 11 after January’s Patch Tuesday cumulative updates left a subset of systems unable to shut down or hibernate and caused widespread Remote Desktop sign‑in failures — an emergency out‑of‑band (OOB) remedy, published on January 17, 2026 as KB5077797 for Windows 11 version 23H2 (and companion KBs for other branches), corrects the most critical symptoms but leaves important testing and deployment...

Some Windows 11 users found a routine shutdown suddenly turned into an unexpected restart after Microsoft’s January 2026 security rollup, but the problem is narrowly scoped and already patched — here’s what happened, who was hit, and exactly how to avoid the bug on your PC. Background / Overview On January 13, 2026 Microsoft distributed its monthly security updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10; one of those packages for Windows 11, version 23H2 — identified as KB5073455 — introduced a...

The University of Manchester has moved from pilot to promise: it will make Microsoft 365 Copilot available to every student and staff member across its campus community — roughly 65,000 people — with a staged rollout set to complete by summer 2026. The move is framed as part of a wider digital and AI transformation that prioritizes equitable access, long‑term AI literacy, and responsible integration rather than a narrow technology purchase. Early pilot figures the university shared —...

Microsoft officially ended mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, leaving millions of machines exposed and many users scrambling for viable options — and 0patch is one of the most talked-about stopgaps. In practice, 0patch delivers tiny, targeted “micropatches” in memory to neutralize specific vulnerabilities on legacy Windows builds; it promises low friction, rapid zero‑day coverage, and a low per‑device cost for ongoing post‑EoS protection. This feature tests those claims...

Windows has long tucked useful recovery shortcuts behind everyday menus — one of the most consequential is the Shift + Restart trick that sends a machine straight into Advanced Startup (WinRE), and a related, lesser‑known emergency reboot hidden behind Ctrl+Alt+Del that forces an immediate restart. These two shortcuts represent opposite ends of the recovery spectrum: Shift + Restart is the controlled, supported path into recovery and Safe Mode, while the Emergency Restart (Ctrl+Alt+Del →...

Microsoft pushed emergency, out‑of‑band Windows updates on January 17, 2026 to fix two high‑impact regressions introduced by the January 13 Patch Tuesday rollup: a configuration‑dependent Secure Launch shutdown/hibernation bug that caused some Windows 11 systems to restart instead of powering off, and widespread Remote Desktop (RDP) authentication failures that blocked access to Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PCs until corrective patches were issued. c Background Microsoft’s...

NVIDIA’s move to bring Arm-based system-on-chips to Windows PCs — long rumored and now increasingly visible in supply‑chain reporting — appears set to begin in earnest in 2026 with a family of chips codenamed N1 and N1X, timed to ship on a new Windows platform baseline Microsoft is preparing (visible in Insider builds as Windows 11, version 26H1). The story is not just about another vendor making chips: it ties together Microsoft’s platform strategy (a device-targeted “Bromine” branch)...

Microsoft’s polished Windows 11 “Home of Gaming” spot briefly included a pinned Google Chrome icon on the taskbar — a tiny production detail that was later removed from the master ad in a quiet edit — and the episode has become a revealing case study in platform messaging, marketing QA, and the political theatre of browser competition. overview The short, high‑tempo commercial titled “Windows 11: The Home of Gaming” was posted to Microsoft’s official channels during the 2025 holiday period...

The Narendra Modi government’s sweeping tax rewrite has done away with the familiar pair of terms that generations of Indian taxpayers and accountants learned to dread and love in equal measure — Previous Year and Assessment Year — replacing them with a single, unified concept: the Tax Year. This change, enacted by the Income‑tax Act, 2025 and slated to take effect from April 1, 2026, is more than a lexical tidy‑up; it reorganises how income is framed, assessed and communicated across...

Origin Digital’s announcement that it has earned Microsoft’s Advanced Specialization for AI Platform on Microsoft Azure marks a consequential validation: the company has passed Microsoft’s audited gates for production‑grade AI delivery on Azure, positioning itself as a verified partner able to design, deploy, and operate enterprise AI workloads with governance, MLOps, and measurable outcomes. Background Microsoft’s partner ecosystem has evolved from single‑exam certifications into a layered...

More than 50 lakh Indian taxpayers remain in limbo because their income tax returns for Assessment Year 2025–26 have not yet been fully processed and associated refunds remain on hold, a backlog driven by a record filing season, stepped-up data cross‑matching and a deliberate compliance campaign known as NUDGE. Background The 2025–26 filing season saw unusually high volumes of Income Tax Returns (ITRs), pushed by extended deadlines and an expanding tax base. Media reporting in early January...

Origin Digital’s announcement that it has earned Microsoft’s Advanced Specialization for AI Platform on Microsoft Azure signals a meaningful vendor milestone: the company has passed Microsoft’s audited gates for production‑grade AI delivery and is positioning itself as a validated integrator for enterprise AI on Azure. Background / Overview Microsoft’s partner ecosystem layers Solutions Partner designations with workload‑specific advanced specializations intended to provide verifiable...

Microsoft released its January 13, 2026 security rollup for Windows 11 and within days administrators and users began reporting a troubling side effect: on a narrow but consequential set of machines the system would refuse to power off or enter hibernation, instead immediately restarting after a shutdown or hibernate request. The vendor acknowledged the issue in its release notes and shipped out-of-band corrective packages on January 17, 2026 — but the episode raises broader questions about...

Origin Digital has won Microsoft’s Advanced Specialization for AI Platform on Microsoft Azure, a program-level, audited recognition that confirms the company’s capability to design, deliver and operate production‑grade AI solutions on Azure. The announcement — carried in Origin Digital’s own announcement and distributed via PR Newswire and secondary outlets — emphasizes that Origin passed Microsoft’s third‑party audit and met the program’s performance, skilling and delivery gates...

Schleswig-Holstein has quietly pulled off one of the most significant public-sector IT pivots in Europe in recent years: a planned, state-wide shift away from a proprietary, Microsoft-centric desktop toward an open-source ecosystem that now powers the majority of administrative workstations. What began as a strategic declaration in late 2024 has, within the span of a year, become a functioning operational reality — with LibreOffice designated as the standard office suite, the migration of...

Microsoft shipped emergency, out‑of‑band patches that restored broken Remote Desdesktop authentication and corrected a configuration‑dependent shutdown/hibernation regression caused by January’s cumulative rollup — an incident that underlines both the speed of Microsoft’s incident response and the fragility of complex, widely distributed update pipelines. c Background In January 2026 Microsoft distributed its monthly Patch Tuesday updates on January 13, a routine cumulative set that included...

Microsoft’s first Windows 11 security rollup of 2026 delivered a routine library of fixes — and, for a narrow but important subset of devices, it broke the most basic user expectation: the ability to shut down cleanly. Within days of Patch Tuesday (January 13, 2026) reports surfaced that some Windows 11 machines were restarting instead of powering off or entering hibernation, and some Remote Desktop sign‑in flows were failing. Microsoft acknowledged the regressions and published an...

More than 50 lakh Indian taxpayers remain in limbo as their income tax returns for Assessment Year 2025–26 sit unprocessed and refunds are delayed, and the causes stretch from high-volume filing pressure to deliberate data-driven compliance checks that the Central Board of Direct Taxes has expanded this year. Background The Income-tax Department recorded a record filing season for AY 2025–26, with filings running into crores. Officials and multiple public reports show that total ITR filings...

Success in enterprise AI now hinges less on novelty and more on operationalization: the ability to scale models, embed them into everyday workflows, and govern them across hybrid and regulated environments — a reality underscored by recent industry lists and vendor metrics that place Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, and major systems integrators at the center of 2026 AI deployment decisions. overview Analytics Insight’s "Top 10 AI Integration Companies to Consider in 2026" frames the market...