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Microsoft’s Windows Terminal Preview has taken another practical step forward with the 1.11 preview release, bringing a cluster of user-facing improvements—most notably the ability to minimize the app to the system tray, a refreshed Settings UI with unfocused appearance controls, expanded pane management (swap, move, split via context menu), and cosmetic options such as an acrylic title bar and adjustable intense-text rendering. These changes make Windows Terminal more flexible for power...

Waratek’s Locker promised a practical "bring your own security" (BYOS) approach for Java applications on Microsoft Azure — a lightweight, JVM‑embedded container that applies Runtime Application Self‑Protection (RASP) policies without touching application code — and while the idea remains compelling, the claims require careful scrutiny and real‑world validation before enterprises treat it as a silver bullet. Background Cloud adoption shifted the security conversation from perimeter defenses...

If you’re shopping the “PC 1080P Webcam with Mic” listings on Amazon that promise plug‑and‑play compatibility with Windows 10 and free shipping, the short version is this: you can get perfectly serviceable video‑call performance for less than $50, reliable 1080p/30fps clarity for most meeting scenarios, and a built‑in microphone good enough for casual calls — but you must pick carefully, expect compromises compared with dedicated studio cameras, and validate seller claims (especially about...

Microsoft released a small but focused Canary-channel maintenance flight today — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1371 (KB5073097) — that addresses a handful of high‑feedback UI and stability issues in Start, File Explorer, input settings and an elevated Windows Terminal hang, while calling out a cosmetic watermark mismatch as a known issue. Background Canary is Microsoft’s earliest Insider ring: a rapid testbed for platform plumbing, silicon enablement and experimental UX changes that...

FluentFlyout’s newest release finally delivers two headline features many Windows 11 power users have been waiting for: native ARM64 builds and multi‑monitor / per‑display flyout placement, alongside a collection of polish fixes and taskbar widget improvements that make the app feel more production‑ready on modern hardware. This update narrows the gap between third‑party polish and built‑in system UX, while underlining both the opportunity and the care required when adopting community‑built...

If the colors on your PC make it hard to read, Windows includes a simple, built‑in way to change the entire color palette: Color filters. These filters can help people with color vision deficiencies, reduce visual noise for light‑sensitive users, or create high‑contrast displays that make small UI elements easier to see. The feature is available in both Windows 11 and Windows 10, and can be toggled from the Accessibility (Ease of Access) settings or with a keyboard shortcut once enabled...

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The West Midlands Police intelligence that led to a November 2025 travel ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters was founded, in part, on a fabricated match reference produced by an AI assistant — a mistake the force initially blamed on a Google search and later admitted was created by Microsoft Copilot. That erroneous intelligence, described by one officer as an “AI hallucination,” has triggered a damning review by the chief inspector of constabulary, prompted the Home Secretary to say she has...

Microsoft's Computex-era reveal of the Windows Collaboration Display quietly opened a practical, IoT-aware flank in its meeting‑room hardware strategy: a certified, sensor‑packed, multi‑touch display designed to run as the smart centerpiece of conference spaces while leaving the compute — and much of the cost — to the customer’s choice of PC. The product family is less a standalone “Surface Hub killer” than a modular alternative: large, pen‑friendly 4K panels from partners such as Sharp and...

The Microsoft Agentic Framework is not a speculative research toy — it is an open-source, production-minded SDK and runtime that stitches together multi-agent orchestration, tool connectors, identity, and observability into a single engineering story for building cooperative, long‑running AI systems. The framework’s arrival and rapid adoption mark a turning point in how teams design automation: from brittle prompt glue and single-turn assistants to auditable, policy‑driven agent fleets that...

Microsoft’s push into enterprise document intelligence is no longer theoretical: EY has adopted Azure AI Document Intelligence to automate tax return preparation, shifting weeks of manual-entry work into an automated, model-driven pipeline that the vendor says scales across thousands of form types. The result, as Microsoft’s published customer materials and independent industry analyses report, is a radical drop in repetitive labor and a repeatable model-building factory that turns one...

Microsoft has pushed a small maintenance flight to the Windows Insider Canary Channel — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1371 (KB5073097) — that focuses on a handful of targeted stability and UX fixes for Start, File Explorer, input settings and an elevated Windows Terminal hang, while calling out a cosmetic watermark mismatch as a known issue. Background / Overview The Canary Channel is Microsoft’s most experimental Insider ring, used to trial platform-level changes, silicon...

Microsoft’s new retailer playbook isn’t theory — it’s a practical roadmap that tells merchants exactly how and why their products can vanish from AI recommendations if catalogs, structured data, and live site experiences aren’t ready for conversational and agentic commerce. The guide, published by Microsoft Advertising on January 6, 2026, reframes product discoverability away from “traffic” and toward influence inside assistants, intelligent browsers, and autonomous agents — and it lays out...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a new platform branch of Windows 11 into the Canary channel — labeled Windows 11, version 26H1 (Build 28000) — but this is not the next consumer feature pack for every PC. Instead, it’s a device‑targeted platform baseline (internally known as Bromine) intended to enable a new generation of Windows‑on‑Arm hardware — particularly Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 family — and to give OEMs a validated, factory‑flashed image for day‑one compatibility. Background / Overview...

The University of Vermont’s Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) is running a new series of drop‑in sessions called Copilot Café, inviting faculty, staff, and students to explore Microsoft Copilot, ask practical questions, and see live demonstrations of how generative AI can be used inside Microsoft 365 to save time and improve productivity. These office‑hours style workshops meet regularly (first Wednesdays at 12:00 PM and third Thursdays at 9:30 AM), cover both the freely available Copilot...

Microsoft’s public preview of Windows Virtual Desktop brought desktop Windows into Azure as a managed service — a move that promised simplified VDI, a true multi-session Windows 10 experience, Office 365 optimizations, and a migration path for Windows 7 workloads — and the announcement accelerated a rapid shift in how IT teams approach desktop delivery. Overview Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) arrived as a service that separates the management control plane (hosted by Microsoft) from the...

Microsoft quietly pulled the standalone Windows 10 security update KB4524244 after users and administrators reported installation failures, system freezes, and broken recovery paths, exposing a rare but serious problem: a security patch designed to protect the UEFI Secure Boot environment can itself render systems unstable when it interacts unexpectedly with OEM firmware and third‑party boot components. Background KB4524244 was published as part of Microsoft’s February 11, 2020 security...

Microsoft’s standing with CIOs is more than a headline — it’s a strategic signal that corporate IT spending, cloud workloads and the early monetization paths for generative AI are converging to favor Microsoft’s platform-led model this year and beyond. Background / Overview A Morgan Stanley CIO survey, summarized in recent market coverage and industry write-ups, shows CIOs expecting modest acceleration in software budgets (to roughly 3.8% annual growth in 2026) and naming Microsoft as the...

Microsoft is quietly adding a compatibility check to Windows Update so Windows 10 users can see — right in Settings > Windows Update — whether their machine meets the minimum requirements to upgrade to Windows 11, and the change has implications that go beyond a simple convenience notification. Background The system requirements for Windows 11 have been a recurring source of confusion since the OS was announced: TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, and a tight list of supported CPU families created a large...

Bluetooth headphones that once paired flawlessly can suddenly refuse to connect, play no audio, drop in and out, or switch to a tinny mono voice channel on Windows 10 — this feature article explains why that happens, how to diagnose the problem step by step, and which fixes actually work for the most common and the most stubborn cases. Background / Overview Bluetooth is the short‑range wireless backbone for headphones, earbuds, speakers, keyboards and mice. On Windows machines the Bluetooth...