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NVIDIA’s archived GeForce driver branch that includes version 341.74 is a legitimate, vendor-published Windows 10 x64 package released to support legacy GeForce families — and yes, it is the driver many owners of older cards such as the GeForce 9800 GT will still turn to when attempting to run those GPUs on Windows 10. The build is listed on NVIDIA’s official driver pages as GeForce Windows 10 Driver — Version 341.74 (released July 29, 2015) and is published as a 64‑bit package for Windows...

Windows 11 ships with a lot of useful features — and an equal amount of defaults that many power users call intrusive, noisy, or wasteful. After a fresh install it can feel like an advertisement platform that happens to run an operating system. The six changes below address the biggest practical complaints: remove Copilot and its background footprint, stop in‑OS ads and lock‑screen junk, silence OneDrive prompts and automatic sync, minimize telemetry, trim startup apps, and remove Bing web...

Microsoft pushed the first cumulative for Windows 11 in 2026 — KB5074109 — to devices on January 13, 2026, folding last month’s preview fixes and a raft of staged, Copilot-era UI and gaming polish into the 24H2/25H2 servicing stream while also addressing several reliability concerns that mattered to handheld and NPU-equipped PCs. Background / Overview Windows 11’s servicing model has shifted toward incremental, staged feature delivery: binaries are shipped broadly while higher‑visibility...

Microsoft’s Canary preview has quietly flipped the version string to Windows 11, version 26H1, but this is not the next consumer feature release — it’s a platform-first engineering baseline built to enable next‑generation silicon and OEM device images rather than a mass feature update for existing x64 PCs. Background / Overview Microsoft published Insider Preview Build 28000 to the Canary Channel and deliberately clarified that “26H1 is not a feature update for version 25H2 and only includes...

Microsoft’s January cumulative for Windows 11, KB5074109, intended to deliver security fixes and platform improvements, has produced a ripple of real‑world problems: some PCs fail to install the package with servicing errors such as 0x800f0922 and 0x80070306, while other systems—particularly machines running NVIDIA GPUs—are reporting intermittent black screens and display freezes. Microsoft’s release notes and community telemetry confirm the update landed on January 13, 2026, and while it...

Microsoft Copilot users face a new prompt-injection vector that researchers say can be triggered with a single click — a technique reported as “Reprompt” that abuses URL parameters to feed malicious prompts into Copilot, bypass built‑in safeguards, and siphon sensitive content from user sessions without further interaction. The disclosure rekindles familiar patterns from earlier AI‑assistant attacks — indirect prompt injection, interactive output exfiltration, and OAuth‑consent deception —...

Microsoft’s new “Community‑First AI Infrastructure” pledge is a strategic pivot: the company promises to ensure its U.S. AI data‑center expansion won’t raise household electricity bills, will sharply cut and replenish local water use, will deliver local jobs and training, and will pay property taxes and invest in civic institutions — a five‑point commitment designed to defuse community opposition and reset the rules for hyperscale infrastructure growth. Background / Overview The scale and...

SAS has opened a new, government‑sovereign route for its Viya analytics platform: SAS Viya is now available to U.S. public‑sector organizations and their system‑integrator partners through Microsoft Azure Government as a managed offering—SAS Managed Cloud Services on Microsoft Azure Government—bringing the company’s full-stack analytics, ModelOps and “trustworthy AI” tooling into a physically isolated, U.S.-only cloud environment specifically designed for federal, state and local workloads...

Zorin OS 18 has quietly become one of the most visible beneficiaries of Windows 10’s end of support, crossing the 2 million downloads mark in under three months after its October 14, 2025 launch — and the Zorin team says roughly three‑quarters of those downloads originated on Windows machines, a figure that has reignited debate about whether Linux is finally converting serious numbers of desktop users. Background / Overview Microsoft formally ended mainstream, free support for Windows 10 on...

If you booted your PC recently and found a much larger, unfamiliar Start menu waiting for you, that sudden change is not a bug — it’s the new, redesigned Windows 11 Start rolling out to users now, delivered via optional servicing packages and staged feature flags that can make the appearance feel sudden and inconsistent across devices. Background / Overview Microsoft has reworked the Windows 11 Start menu into a single, vertically scrollable surface that places your pinned apps...

Windows 11’s trajectory in 2025 felt less like steady refinement and more like an accelerated sprint that left a lot of users watching features break, defaults change, and formerly optional telemetry become baked in. The result: a growing number of practical regressions — UI glitches, update-triggered drive encryption lockouts, forced online identity at setup, and AI (Copilot) features that reinstall themselves after removal. This article breaks down four concrete ways Microsoft’s moves made...

Microsoft’s latest push is blunt: if you want to be ready for “the next generation of computing,” buy a Copilot+ PC — a Windows 11 machine built around a high‑performance Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and a new hardware baseline Microsoft says is required to deliver the fastest, most intelligent Windows experiences. That message — delivered through blog posts, product pages and OEM briefings — reframes a routine PC refresh as a strategic decision to adopt on‑device AI, while raising new...

ESW says it is launching Copilot Ascend™, a role‑based Microsoft Copilot training and enablement program aimed at converting pilot‑stage AI experiments into repeatable, measurable workplace capability. Background / Overview ESW (eSoftware Associates), a US‑based Microsoft partner, published a press release on January 13, 2026 outlining Copilot Ascend™ as a packaged training and adoption service built around Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 workflows. The vendor frames the product as a...

Microsoft's claim at Build 2019—that its core platform is not merely Azure, Windows, or Office but trust itself—was less rhetorical flourish than a deliberate strategic thesis, and the evidence onstage, in code releases, and in subsequent community debate shows why that thesis matters as much today as it did then. Background / Overview Satya Nadella opened Build 2019 by framing a new operating premise: as computing becomes more deeply embedded in daily life, platform makers must treat trust...

NTT DATA’s expanded alliance with Microsoft marks a deliberate push to make Microsoft Azure the preferred public cloud for a wide range of enterprise digital transformation projects, combining NTT DATA’s system-integration scale and vertical expertise with Microsoft’s cloud platform, productivity stack and identity/security portfolio. This move — announced in a joint press release and reported across industry outlets — centers on accelerating cloud migrations, embedding Microsoft 365 and...

Windows 7 users are proving stubbornly reluctant to migrate, and recent market data underline a familiar pattern: the arrival of a newer Windows release does not automatically translate into mass movement away from a comfortable, well‑tested operating system. NetMarketShare’s monthly figures show only a marginal shift in April, with Windows 10 inching up from 43.62 percent to 44.10 percent while Windows 7 fell by a negligible 0.09 points to 36.43 percent—hardly the exodus Microsoft would...

Microsoft’s PowerToys have returned as an open‑source productivity toolkit for modern Windows — a community‑driven reboot that started as a nostalgic nod to the Windows 95 era and has since become Microsoft’s public laboratory for small, high‑value enhancements to Windows 10 and Windows 11. Background / Overview PowerToys began as an experimental set of utilities for power users in the Windows 95 era. The modern revival reimagined that spirit for contemporary Windows, packaging a modular set...

Headline (clickable for homepage use) Best Windows 10 apps this week — Series #333 (week of May 3, 2019) Intro — quick summary for the homepage Three-hundred-and-thirty-three in the series: this week’s roundup highlights two notable new Windows Store apps, a handful of discounted titles worth checking, and a small but useful update in Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge Canary channel that introduces a built-in translation capability. If you follow our weekly series you’ll find short hands-on...

Zorin OS 18 has quietly become a headline-making alternative to Windows after crossing the 2 million-download mark in under three months — and, crucially, the Zorin team says more than three-quarters of those downloads came from Windows machines. That timing — with Zorin OS 18’s launch coordinated around the end of free support for Windows 10 — has produced what the Zorin team and multiple outlets describe as an unusually large, forced migration experiment: millions of Windows users...

Microsoft’s new “Community‑First” pledge for AI datacenters landed with the kind of theatrical polish Microsoft excels at, but the reaction from the ground — from grassroots activists to snarky social feeds and skeptical local officials — made one thing clear: promises alone will not persuade communities that have seen resource strains, tax gamesmanship, and unkept sustainability claims before. Background: why datacenters wound up at the center of a political and social storm The past three...