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Microsoft’s announcement that Azure RemoteApp would “launch next week” was more than a simple product update — it was a public milestone in Microsoft’s strategy to deliver Windows apps in the cloud, allowing traditional Windows line‑of‑business software to be hosted centrally in Azure and streamed to users on nearly any device. The BetaNews piece and contemporaneous Microsoft posts announced that Azure RemoteApp would reach general availability on December 11, 2014, with pay‑as‑you‑go...

Manjaro Linux 16.06 "Daniella" landed as a polished, user-friendly alternative to Windows 10 this week, while Microsoft continued widening the Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones to cover many more Lumia models — and BetaNews’ weekly roundup highlights fresh Windows 10 apps that make the Store worth a second look. Background / Overview Manjaro’s 16.06 release, codenamed Daniella, is a milestone for the Arch‑based, rolling-release distribution: it bundles the Xfce 4.12 desktop as the...

Microsoft’s long‑running, famously austere Notepad has quietly crossed another milestone: lightweight, Markdown‑backed table creation and live AI streaming have moved beyond Insider previews and are being reported as available to the broad Windows 11 user base, completing a months‑long staged rollout that began in the Windows Insider program. Background Notepad’s transformation from a sub‑100KB plain‑text utility into a modern, Markdown‑aware authoring surface has been deliberate and...

Microsoft has quietly finished turning one of Windows’ oldest helpers into a more capable, structured writing surface while also testing a Handoff‑style continuity feature for Android apps — two changes that together reveal Microsoft’s current priorities: reduce friction for small tasks, fold cross‑device experiences into Windows, and lean on AI where latency matters most. The Notepad update adds a visual table inserter and streaming AI results, and Microsoft’s Phone Link / Cross‑Device...

A deceptively small UX convenience — letting Copilot accept a prefilled prompt from a URL — was chained into a practical, one‑click data‑exfiltration technique that security researchers named Reprompt, and the discovery forced a rapid hardening of Microsoft’s consumer Copilot surface during mid‑January 2026. The episode is a textbook case of how agentic AI features expand productivity but also create fresh, subtle attack surfaces that traditional endpoint controls struggle to observe...

If you’re hunting for serviceable, safe drivers for older AMD laptop APUs — specifically the AMD A6‑3420M (Radeon HD 6520G) or the 7th‑Gen AMD A6‑9220 (Radeon R4) — and trying to reconcile references to Radeon Adrenalin 18.9.3, Windows 7, Windows 10, and clearance/third‑party driver shops, this guide lays out what actually works, what is risky, and the exact, verifiable places and steps to get the right drivers and avoid common pitfalls. Background / Overview AMD’s laptop graphics support...

Microsoft’s strategy to move the world onto Windows 10 created two distinct narratives: a rapid and measurable uptick in enterprise adoption, and at the same time a public relations fiasco over how that push was executed. New and contemporaneous industry research shows businesses embraced Windows 10 faster than its predecessor, while Microsoft’s own executives later admitted the company crossed a line during the aggressive free-upgrade campaign — a mix that changed how enterprises, IT teams...

The ROG Xbox Ally X represents the most aggressive hardware bet yet on making Windows a believable handheld gaming platform, but early reviews — including a full review that recommends considering the Lenovo Legion Go 2 instead — make clear this is still a tradeoff between hardware ambition and software polish. Background / Overview The past two years have accelerated two parallel currents in PC hardware: the maturation of high-performance handhelds for gaming, and the mainstreaming of...

Would you trust an AI to read the contract you sign? In three separate developments this month—debates about AI reading legal texts, a growing industry emphasis on “context‑first” enterprise AI, and Alibaba’s Qwen app moving from chat to action—the same tension is visible: AI is becoming vastly more capable at doing, but that capability heightens the need for context, governance, and human oversight before we hand it authority over money, rights, or compliance. Background AI tools have...

Windows 10’s formal sunset has reshaped the platform’s news cycle: security stopgaps, nostalgia for older features, small utility updates, and even niche gaming minutiae now compete for attention as users decide whether to upgrade, patch, or preserve their machines. The most consequential story remains the rise of micropatching services such as 0patch as a practical — if imperfect — bridge, while smaller items like Project Spartan’s early steps, weekly app roundups, fix rollouts, and even...

Microsoft quietly shipped a substantive rewrite of Windows’ storage plumbing—Native NVMe—in Windows Server 2025, and the change has already leaked its way into consumer Windows 11 builds through community-discovered registry overrides. The result is measurable uplifts in small-block random I/O and a significant reduction in CPU cycles spent on storage overhead, but it arrives with genuine compatibility and stability trade-offs that make it a risky experiment for production machines...

Microsoft’s storage team quietly rewired a decades‑old bottleneck: a native NVMe I/O path that bypasses Windows’ SCSI‑style translation and — when enabled — can raise small‑block random SSD performance and cut CPU cost per I/O, but the client‑side route that enthusiasts are using today is unsupported, fragile, and should be treated as an advanced experiment rather than a drop‑in speed hack. Background / Overview For years Windows treated NVMe SSDs as if they were still part of the older...

A deceptively small UX convenience — allowing Microsoft Copilot to accept a prefilled prompt from a URL — was chained into a practical, one‑click data‑exfiltration technique that security researchers named “Reprompt,” and the discovery has exposed how quickly assistant conveniences can become operational attack surfaces for large‑scale phishing and covert extraction of user context. Background / Overview Microsoft Copilot has been folded into Windows and Edge as a conversational assistant...

Microsoft’s recent wobble may feel abrupt, but the elements that made the run-up possible — an aggressive AI build‑out, powerful distribution into enterprises, and a seat‑based monetization play — were always going to create a fragile, timing‑sensitive payoff. The Seeking Alpha piece that inspired this debate argued that Microsoft is the safest high‑quality way to own AI upside; reality shows that owning scale in a capital‑intensive AI era means accepting short‑term margin and multiple risk...

If you’re still running Windows 10 after Microsoft’s formal end-of-support date, you’re facing a real security crossroads: install a paid Microsoft Extended Security Updates (ESU) license for a short-term bridge, migrate to Windows 11 or another OS, or adopt third‑party mitigations such as 0patch’s micropatching service. ZDNet’s recent hands‑on review of 0patch—combined with official Microsoft lifecycle guidance and 0patch’s own documentation—shows that 0patch is a pragmatic, cost‑effective...

Galaxy Buds will pair with virtually every modern device you own, but the experience — and the features available — vary wildly between Android, iPhone, macOS, Windows 10 and Windows 11. This guide pulls together tested pairing steps, Windows-specific troubleshooting and the new LE Audio / Shared Audio landscape so you can connect reliably, preserve audio quality, and avoid the most common driver and firmware traps. Background Samsung’s Galaxy Buds family uses Bluetooth for audio and...

The landscape for Windows 10 users just shifted from a long, slow countdown to an urgent operational decision: with Microsoft’s mainstream security updates ended, third‑party micropatching services such as 0patch have moved from curiosity to practical mitigation for many stuck on older hardware. This feature examines what 0patch actually offers, how micropatching works, how it compares with Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates (ESU) and other mitigations, and who should — and should not —...

Microsoft’s January 13, 2026 cumulative update for Windows 11—KB5074109—delivers a heavyweight security rollup and several quality fixes, but it also introduced at least one verified enterprise-impacting regression and a raft of community-reported compatibility problems that make careful rollout planning essential. Background / Overview KB5074109 is the January 2026 Patch Tuesday cumulative update for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2, moving affected systems to OS build 26100.7623 (24H2)...

Microsoft’s January baseline cumulative, KB5074109, delivers a heavy set of security and quality fixes — including an important NPU power-state correction and preparatory Secure Boot certificate work — but it also introduced a client-side regression that can break Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365 Cloud PC connections in some managed environments; Microsoft has acknowledged the issue and published a Known Issue Rollback (KIR) mitigation while an out‑of‑band fix is prepared...

A deceptively small UX convenience—allowing Microsoft Copilot to accept a prefilled prompt from a URL—was chained into a practical, one‑click data‑exfiltration technique that targeted Copilot Personal and, until Microsoft pushed mitigations in mid‑January 2026, could quietly siphon profile details, file summaries and conversation memory from authenticated sessions. Varonis Threat Labs called the exploit “Reprompt”; their technical write‑up and demonstration show how three benign‑looking...