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Samsung and Microsoft have officially brought Microsoft Copilot to the living room, embedding a conversational AI companion into select 2025 Samsung TVs and Smart Monitors as part of Samsung’s Vision AI initiative — and yes, it arrives on-screen as a friendly animated character that talks back. The partnership pushes Microsoft’s “Copilot Everywhere” strategy beyond PCs and phones and into the big screen, promising conversational search, spoiler‑safe recaps, context‑aware recommendations, and...

Thanks — I can do a few different things with that RSM piece (summarize it, rewrite it as a WindowsForum.com feature, produce an in‑depth analysis, etc.). Which would you like? Options I can do next (pick one or tell me another): Write a full WindowsForum.com feature (≈2,000+ words, IT‑journalist tone, citations and analysis of Copilot + agentic AI strategy and risks). Produce a 400–600 word news story/press‑style summary for the forum. Create a concise executive summary (5–10 bullet...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Windows Backup for Organizations, a tenant‑scoped, Intune‑integrated backup and restore capability designed to capture user preferences and Microsoft Store app lists so IT can restore a familiar Windows experience on Microsoft Entra‑joined devices during enrollment. This is not a full image or file backup: it saves settings and Store app manifests to the organization’s tenant and replays them during Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) enrollment on qualifying Windows...

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Screenvision Media has completed a rapid, high-stakes migration of its core business systems into a multi‑cloud architecture built on Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), a move executed by Oracle‑specialist managed services provider Cintra in an intensive 12‑week program that the companies say caused zero disruption to operations and immediately improved resilience, scalability, and cost transparency. envision Media is a national leader in cinema advertising with an...

Microsoft’s Agent Factory guidance sharpens the focus on agent observability as the non-negotiable foundation for reliable, safe, and scalable agentic AI — and its recommendations are timely: as agents move from prototypes to workflows that touch business-critical data and systems, observability becomes the difference between confident automation and operational risk. view Agent observability extends traditional monitoring practices into the domain of autonomous AI. Where conventional...

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Acer’s Swift 16 AI lands as a striking rebuttal to the idea that large-screen ultraportables must be expensive: its 16-inch 3K OLED panel, Lunar Lake silicon, and long endurance make it one of the most compelling value propositions in the premium-thin Windows segment — but close inspection reveals a mix of thoughtful engineering and a few puzzling compromises that every buyer should weigh. (trustedreviews.com, laptopmedia.com) Background The Swift 16 AI is Acer’s attempt to marry a big...

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Microsoft has quietly closed one of PC audio’s most annoying gaps: Windows 11 now supports a super‑wideband stereo path for Bluetooth LE Audio that keeps stereo game and media audio intact while using a headset microphone, eliminating the long‑standing drop to muffled, mono voice quality on supported headsets. (theverge.com) Background For more than a decade, Bluetooth audio on PCs has been hamstrung by an architectural trade‑off baked into Bluetooth Classic: A2DP provided high‑quality...

Microsoft’s Copilot is rolling off the PC and into living rooms: Samsung has announced that its 2025 Smart TV and Smart Monitor lineup will include Microsoft Copilot via the new Samsung Vision AI platform, bringing a conversational AI assistant, contextual on‑screen search, translation and smart‑home controls to televisions and large displays. Background Microsoft built Copilot as a contextual AI assistant that spans Windows, Office, Edge and cloud services; since its debut it has been...

Microsoft has quietly flipped a fundamental behavior in Word for Windows: new documents now default to being saved to the cloud with AutoSave enabled, creating a cloud-backed identity for a file the moment you start typing rather than waiting until you press Save. This change—rolling out first to Microsoft 365 Insiders in the Windows build track identified as Version 2509 (and reported builds in the 19221.xxxxx series)—adds a new option in Word’s Save settings called “Create new files in the...

Microsoft has quietly flipped a foundational behavior in Word for Windows: new documents you create now start life in the cloud, with AutoSave enabled by default and an immediate OneDrive/SharePoint identity — a change rolling out in Word for Windows Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000) and later that shifts the default from local-first documents to a cloud-first experience. (thurrott.com) Background / Overview For years Microsoft’s Office apps have supported both local and cloud workflows: you...

Microsoft has quietly begun threading tighter continuity between Android phones and Windows 11, shipped a handful of small but genuinely useful input and UI tweaks, and continued the long march of Copilot’s integration into the operating system — all surfaced this week in Insider builds and rolling Store updates. These changes are modest on the surface but meaningful in practice: a one‑click “resume” for phone-to‑PC Spotify playback, native keyboard shortcuts for en‑ and em‑dashes, battery...

Microsoft’s latest push to fold everyday feedback workflows into its AI assistant stack landed this week with the public preview of Surveys Agent, an AI-powered agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot that promises to let teams design, launch, monitor, and analyze surveys from a single conversational interface. The feature is being released to commercial customers through Microsoft’s new Frontier program—an early-access channel for experimental Copilot innovations—and surfaces in the Copilot...

Microsoft has quietly—yet materially—expanded Windows 365’s regional footprint in Asia by making the Korea Central Azure region available for Cloud PC provisioning, enabling organizations operating in South Korea to host Cloud PC storage and compute within the country and reduce latency for local users while strengthening data‑residency guarantees. (microsoft.com, azurespeed.com) Background Microsoft introduced Windows 365 in 2021 as a cloud‑hosted “Cloud PC” service that streams a full...

Forgiving someone who has wronged you does not make the past disappear — but new, large-scale research shows it reliably blunts the emotional sting those memories continue to deliver, with measurable effects on revenge, avoidance, and benevolence toward the offender. Background Forgiveness is one of those human actions that sits at the crossroads of morality, emotion, and memory. For centuries philosophers and faith traditions have debated whether forgiveness is a moral imperative, a...

Microsoft’s Copilot is arriving on Samsung’s 2025 smart screens, bringing conversational AI, context-aware recommendations, and Microsoft 365—style productivity features to a range of TVs and smart monitors through Samsung’s Vision AI framework and an embedded Copilot web experience. This shift extends Microsoft’s “Copilot Everywhere” strategy beyond PCs and mobile devices, positioning the living room and home office as new frontiers for generative AI-driven assistance and cross-device...

Storm-0501’s latest operation — a hybrid assault that began on-premises, pivoted into Azure, exfiltrated and destroyed cloud data, and culminated in a ransom demand delivered through a compromised Microsoft Teams account — marks a stark turning point in how ransomware actors pursue profit and persistence in modern IT estates. The intrusion is not a simple malware drop and network scramble; it is a playbook built around identity abuse, synchronization-service compromise, and cloud-native...