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Stronghold Data’s sudden venue change and the announcement of a hands‑on workshop on Microsoft Copilot and Excel is more than a local footnote — it’s a snapshot of how quickly artificial intelligence has moved from boardroom buzzword to practical, in‑the‑trenches tool for small and mid‑sized businesses. Organizers report that demand pushed the session from company headquarters to Joplin High School’s Black Box Theatre, and the agenda promises step‑by‑step demos showing how to fold Copilot...

Microsoft’s recent drop from the upper echelons of megacap valuations to a mid‑20s price‑to‑earnings multiple is not a mystery — it is the market’s blunt assessment of a company in the middle of a costly, high‑stakes transformation and the messy early returns from that pivot. Investors today are wrestling with three realities at once: Microsoft is deeply embedded across enterprise computing and productivity, it has doubled down on AI at colossal expense, and the early commercialization...

Nomad Factory’s long-running Blue Tubes collection has been rebuilt for modern DAWs and platforms, arriving as Blue Tubes v4 — a ground-up modernization that preserves the series’ vintage character while adding native Apple Silicon support, a redesigned audio architecture, and updated, resizable high‑resolution GUIs. Background / Overview Blue Tubes first earned attention more than two decades ago for bringing analog-style harmonic coloration and musical dynamics into the plugin domain. It...

Microsoft has issued a cumulative firmware and driver update for the Surface Pro (11th Edition) that addresses a cluster of high-impact issues — including loss of cellular connectivity when a VPN is active, unexpected shutdowns during Microsoft Teams calls, an eSIM configuration regression that flipped devices to a physical SIM, and a Dolby Vision playback error that produced a black screen and “playback isn’t authorized” message. The release, published to Surface update history as the...

I ignored AutoArchive for years — and my mailbox paid the price, until I turned it on and reclaimed tens of gigabytes and a lot of mental overhead. Overview If your Outlook inbox feels like a cluttered attic — thousands of messages, folders layered with old threads, and a mailbox that slows down searches and syncs — there's a simple, long‑standing tool inside the classic Outlook client that can help: AutoArchive. AutoArchive automatically moves older items out of your live mailbox and into a...

The mainstream AI assistants sweeping into everyday workflows are now being built and operated by companies whose core businesses are, in many cases, advertising and attention monetization — and that structural fact reshapes every privacy, legal, and architectural decision engineers and IT leaders must make today. The SitePoint trend piece that flagged this shift is right to sound the alarm: when Google Gemini, Meta’s AI, Amazon’s Alexa+/Bedrock stack, and Microsoft Copilot become the...

[SOLVED] KB5077181 Failing at 78–79% — Full Start‑to‑Finish Fix Guide (With ISO Checks + BitLocker Notes) Posting this to help anyone dealing with the same issue I spent days fighting. My system refused to install KB5077181 (26200.7840) and always failed in the exact same way. Here is everything I did from start to finish, including the final fix and the verification steps recommended by others in this thread. --------------------------------------- 1. Symptoms of the Problem...