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Microsoft is rolling generative AI into Phone Link on Windows 11 so the app can suggest three ready-made SMS replies when you get a text — a convenience feature that’s enabled by default, uses a cloud-based “intelligent suggestion model,” and uploads recent conversation text to Microsoft services to generate and monitor those suggestions. (blogs.windows.com) (support.microsoft.com) Background Microsoft announced the new Suggested replies capability for the Phone Link app in a Windows Insider...

Phison's latest public posture on the Windows 11 SSD scare shifts the narrative from an alleged vendor-level "bricking" spree to a coordinated investigation, but the episode leaves important questions about testing transparency, firmware distribution, and how quickly platform vendors communicate risk to users and enterprise administrators. Background In mid‑August 2025 Microsoft shipped the combined servicing stack + cumulative update for Windows 11 (commonly tracked as KB5063878, OS Build...

Microsoft’s latest move to automate and AI‑assist Windows Server 2025 upgrades promises to cut the friction and risk that have long dogged enterprise patch cycles, but the effort is also a reminder that automation without clear metadata and robust controls can make things worse as quickly as it makes them easier. ds an ambitious blend of hybrid cloud integration, hardened security primitives, and operational tooling intended to modernize how enterprises patch and upgrade their...

For more than a decade, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the engine that transformed Amazon from an online retailer into one of the world’s most valuable and strategically diversified technology companies—and yet, the cloud computing race is no longer a straight sprint for raw scale. Recent earnings and market-data prints show AWS still the clear leader by revenue and footprint, but a mounting gap in growth momentum, coupled with an industry redefining itself around generative AI and...

Microsoft’s latest update to Copilot for Windows 11 pushes the assistant farther into the OS — adding third‑party extensions that let Copilot act on your behalf across the web, new “settings” skills that can change system options for you, and AI enhancements in core apps like Photos and Clipchamp — while Microsoft continues to monetize advanced access with the Copilot Pro $20/month plan. Background Microsoft introduced Copilot as a deeply integrated AI experience for Windows, and the company...

Microsoft’s August preview updates quietly deliver a major new enterprise capability: Windows Backup for Organizations has been promoted into Release Preview and is being positioned as the supported, tenant‑gated path for backing up and restoring user settings and Microsoft Store app lists in managed environments — while Microsoft also ships targeted reliability fixes for File Explorer, SMB over QUIC, ReFS, Family Safety, and device management policies in KB5064080 (Windows 11) and KB5063842...

Microsoft's latest Windows 11 update brings a long‑awaited fix for muffled Bluetooth headset audio: support for Bluetooth LE Audio's super‑wideband stereo, letting game audio remain high‑fidelity while voice chat or calls run at a much higher sample rate than the old Hands‑Free Profile allowed. This change replaces the decades‑old compromise where activating a headset microphone forced a drop to low‑quality, telephone‑grade voice; with LE Audio and the LC3 codec, Windows 11 can now sustain...

Microsoft has quietly shifted a major piece of device provisioning from a manual follow-up task for end users to an automated, admin‑controlled step in setup — beginning with the September 2025 Windows security update, eligible Windows 11 devices can check for and install quality updates during the Out of Box Experience (OOBE) so that devices arrive to users already patched and compliant. (techcommunity.microsoft.com) Background Windows updates have long been one of IT’s perennial headaches...

Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 deadline for Windows 10 support is no longer a distant calendar entry — it is the hinge point of a transition that will reshape how millions of consumers and businesses think about desktop operating systems, security, and the economics of software as a service. Microsoft will stop delivering routine feature, quality, and security updates for most Windows 10 editions on that date, but the company has layered a short‑term safety net — the Windows 10 Consumer...

Microsoft has quietly started rolling out a native, Apple‑style handoff for Android phones in Windows 11 — a Cross Device Resume feature that, in its first public preview, lets you pick up a Spotify session from your phone and continue it on your PC with a single click. (blogs.windows.com) Background / Overview Windows has long tried to blur the lines between phone and PC: Project Rome, Continue on PC, Your Phone (now Phone Link), and the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) were all steps...

Parallels Desktop 26 for Mac arrived as a significant, broadly compatible virtualization update — offering full support for Apple’s forthcoming macOS Tahoe and Microsoft’s Windows 11 25H2, along with measured performance improvements and a suite of new enterprise management features that aim to simplify large-scale Mac deployments. Background Parallels has long sat at the center of cross-platform workflows on macOS, providing the ability to run Windows, Linux, and other operating systems...

Microsoft’s new VibeVoice marks a striking shift in what open-source text-to-speech can do: from short, single-voice clips to hour‑scale, multi‑speaker spoken audio that resembles a produced podcast — and it’s available now for researchers and tinkerers to try. The framework packages a compact LLM planner with novel continuous tokenizers and a diffusion‑based acoustic decoder to synthesize up to 90 minutes of coherent speech with up to four distinct speakers, including English and Mandarin...

OpenAI’s planned corporate overhaul — a pivotal step toward an eventual IPO and deeper outside investment — is now widely reported to be slipping into next year as fraught negotiations with its largest strategic partner, Microsoft, remain unresolved. What began as a calendar-year push to rework governance, investor rights, and commercial terms has become a delicate tug-of-war over cloud exclusivity, intellectual property access, and the controversial “AGI clause.” The delay puts a material...

The 2025 desktop gaming market has matured into a clear split: compact, high-efficiency small-form-factor rigs for living-room-worthy performance, and purpose-built towers that prioritize raw frame rates, thermal headroom, and upgradeability. This feature pulls together the best pre-built systems on the market today, verifies their specifications against manufacturer and retail listings, and delivers practical buying guidance so you get the best balance of performance, value, and long-term...

Much of keeping a Windows PC feeling fast and reliable comes down to discipline—regular cleanups, timely scans, and dependable backups—and automating those chores with the built‑in Windows Task Scheduler is one of the most effective ways to remove the human factor from maintenance and make a machine reliably unobtrusive. Background / Overview Windows Task Scheduler is the long‑running automation engine that ships with Windows and lets you run programs, scripts, or built‑in utilities...

Keeping track of what Windows 10 has installed on your PC is a small habit that pays huge dividends when troubleshooting, validating security patches, or confirming whether a feature update actually applied — and it’s easier than most users think. This guide takes the short how‑to you may have read and expands it into a practical, verifiable reference: three quick methods (Settings, Command Prompt, PowerShell), a deeper look at the logs and version history, and a clear set of troubleshooting...

Phison’s latest public update frames the SSD problem that rocked Windows 11’s August rollout as an industry-wide, workload-dependent storage regression under investigation — not a single-vendor “bricking” event — but the episode exposes sharp risks in modern storage co‑engineering and offers concrete lessons for users, system builders, and IT teams who must balance rapid patching with hardware diversity and data safety. (wccftech.com) Background / Overview In mid‑August 2025 Microsoft...

Perplexity’s latest play changes the calculus of how AI services can — and might — compensate the news ecosystem: the company’s Comet Plus subscription promises to funnel a substantial share of revenue back to publishers whose work is surfaced by its AI assistant and browser, while also arriving amid a wave of copyright lawsuits and competitive moves that have made the economics and legality of AI-sourced content one of the technology industry’s hottest debates. (perplexity.ai) Background...

Last week’s dust-up over a new Microsoft Research paper — and a Patheos blog post reacting to it — landed squarely on familiar ground: the tension between tidy, task-level metrics and the messy, context-rich reality of human work. The Microsoft study, Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI, analyzed roughly 200,000 anonymized Copilot conversations and produced an “AI applicability score” that ranks occupations by how closely their routine activities align...

0patch’s decision to “security-adopt” Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 2019 — and to package that commitment into new paid plans — reshapes the post‑end‑of‑support landscape for millions of users who either can’t or won’t migrate to Microsoft 365 or Windows 11 before Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 cutoff. This development brings a pragmatic, third‑party safety net in the form of in‑memory micropatches and tiered subscriptions; it also raises important questions about reliance on unofficial...