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If you still own a PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT and you're hunting for a cheap Windows 10 driver, the short version is blunt but practical: you can get a stable, basic display driver through Microsoft Windows Update, you can attempt to restore older Catalyst features by manually installing archived AMD drivers (Catalyst 13.1) at your own risk, and the “one‑click” cheap driver bundles you’ll find floating around the web are a security and stability minefield. Practical recovery is...

Microsofts Copilot ist auf dem Weg, nicht mehr nur ein optionaler Assistent zu sein, sondern sich als persistente, handlungsfähige AI‑Schicht in Unternehmens‑ und Endnutzer‑Umgebungen zu etablieren — nun auch mit nativem Mac‑Client und einer klaren Roadmap für Agenten‑Intelligenz, Governance und Entwickler‑Ökosysteme. Hintergrund / Übersicht In den letzten zwölf bis achtzehn Monaten hat Microsoft Copilot von einem reaktiven Chat‑Assistenten zu einer plattformweiten, handlungsfähigen...

The era when the Magnificent Seven could be excused for spending without immediate proof of returns appears to be ending: this quarter’s results have crystallized a new investor imperative — evidence of durable returns on the staggering capital being deployed into AI infrastructure. Amazon’s shock $200 billion capex target for 2026 was the headline, but it is the broader, synchronous ramp in spending across Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and others — a single-year hyperscaler build-out that...

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When Microsoft Teams refuses to start and shows the message “We’ve run into an issue. We can’t find a required component to run Teams,” the culprit is very often the same thing: the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime is missing, broken, mismatched for your architecture, or Windows is being tricked into thinking it’s already present. The symptom is straightforward and infuriating — a “Get Edge WebView2” button that does nothing, installers that say WebView2 is already installed, and Teams that...

Microsoft has quietly removed the long‑standing convenience of credential autofill in Windows sign‑in dialogs — a deliberate security hardening shipped in January 2026 that forces organizations to choose between uninterrupted remote support workflows and a stronger defense against a serious Windows Hello tampering vulnerability. Background / Overview For years enterprises and support teams relied on a handful of practical but risky patterns to keep users productive: remote technicians typing...

Microsoft’s February cumulative update KB5077181 is leaving a significant number of Windows 11 devices unusable—driving endless restart loops, blocking sign‑ins with System Event Notification Service (SENS) errors, and corrupting network functionality—while Microsoft’s official advisory has not, at the time of reporting, acknowledged these specific failures. verview KB5077181 was distributed on Patch Tuesday, February 10, 2026, as the monthly cumulative for Windows 11 and is delivered as a...

Microsoft keeps promising a sleeker, more unified Windows. What it actually shipped in many places is a modern skin that looks cleaner but often gets in the way of speed, clarity, and control — and for a surprising number of everyday tasks the old, battle‑tested tools still outperform the shiny replacements. Background Windows has been through at least two major UX shifts over the past decade: a long migration from the old Control Panel / Win32 shell to a Settings / WinUI world, and an...

Microsoft has quietly started the work that will prevent a class of very old Secure Boot signing certificates — the ones first shipped in 2011 — from being usable after they expire between June and October 2026, and that work matters for anyone who cares about boot‑time integrity on Windows machines, whether at home, in school, or across a corporate fleet. Background Secure Boot is a firmware‑level trust mechanism implemented through UEFI that helps ensure only trusted, signed code runs...

Microsoft’s February cumulative for Windows 11, delivered as KB5077181, has left a significant number of users in the field facing crippling startup failures — endless restart loops, login-blocking SENS errors, and networking that shows “connected” but produces no internet — with community troubleshooting pointing to a reliable short-term mitigation: remove the offending cumulative and pause updates while engineering investigates...

The fourth quarter of 2025 changed the conversation about who’s winning the AI arms race in the cloud: all three hyperscalers—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud—reported robust, AI-driven growth, but one vendor stood out for the speed of adoption and the leverage it’s squeezing from its model stack. Google Cloud’s Q4 performance wasn’t just another strong quarter; it delivered the fastest growth, the sharpest margin improvement, and a surge in enterprise commitments that...

Windows includes a surprising number of productivity tools that most people never discover — and the payoff for using even one of them can be hours saved every month. Background Windows has, over the last several releases, folded a set of quietly powerful features into the OS that were originally aimed at power users, enterprise admins, or accessibility-minded folks. Many of those features — from quick local file transfers to ephemeral sandboxes — sit behind small UI gestures (a hover, a...

Microsoft’s Windows story this week is less about headline-grabbing new features and more about course corrections, security hardening, and the quiet work required to keep a decades‑old platform usable for millions of workflows — from vertical monitor power users to enterprise administrators. What stood out: Microsoft is prototyping a long‑requested, pragmatic fix to Windows 11’s locked taskbar; Patch Tuesday delivered important security patches and a Secure Boot certificate refresh that has...

Brazil’s competition authority has opened a formal administrative inquiry into whether Microsoft leveraged commercial terms and device-configuration practices to steer PC makers into shipping Microsoft Edge as the dominant, out‑of‑the‑box browser on new Windows machines — a probe triggered by a complaint from Opera and now amplified by a wider coalition of rival browser vendors. (press.opera.com Background Why this probe landed in Brazil Opera formally filed a complaint with Brazil’s...

Microsoft will begin delivering a coordinated refresh of Secure Boot certificates through Windows Update in March 2026, a multi‑stage effort designed to replace the aging 2011 trust anchors before they begin expiring in mid‑2026 and to preserve pre‑boot security and updateability across millions of Windows PCs. Background Secure Boot is a UEFI firmware feature that enforces a small, firmware‑anchored chain of trust at system start‑up. It validates signatures on bootloaders, option ROMs and...

Consumer reporting and a spate of lab results have pushed Avira back into the spotlight as one of the most compelling antivirus options for Windows users — but the headline “best antivirus” needs context. Recent syndicated coverage summarized Consumer Reports’ pick of Avira Free Security Suite for free protection and Avira Antivirus Pro for paid protection, which rekindled debate about whether a third‑party antivirus still beats the built‑in defenses in Windows. s those claims, verifies them...

Microsoft’s staged refresh of the Secure Boot signing chain is working exactly as designed — it is a phased, telemetry-gated update that may produce informational TPM‑WMI events (including Event ID 1801) and transient “under observation” messages in Event Viewer, but those logs alone are not a sign of system compromise or immediate failure; they are status indicators that Windows and OEM firmware are coordinating to apply the new Windows UEFI CA 2023 certificate safely...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a set of behind‑the‑scenes dynamic updates for Windows 11 that refresh the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) and change how the Boot Manager is signed under UEFI Secure Boot — changes that administrators, OEMs, and power users must treat as image‑level maintenance, not optional tweaks. com](https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/topic/kb5077178-safe-os-dynamic-update-for-windows-11-version-26h1-february-10-2026-040babb2-5a34-452f-9691-34e21399a0d4) Background /...

Microsoft’s senior AI leadership has openly signaled a strategic shift: the company is preparing to build its own frontier-grade foundation models and the gigawatt-scale compute to train them, reducing operational dependence on OpenAI even as commercial ties remain in place. Background Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI has been one of the defining public tech partnerships of the last several years. The collaboration brought OpenAI models into Microsoft products—Bing Chat, GitHub Copilot...

This week’s Microsoft beat was dominated by three tightly related themes: a broad, sometimes messy Patch Tuesday rollout that fixed a critical Notepad remote‑code execution flaw and began refreshing Secure Boot certificates; renewed signals that Microsoft is finally repairing Windows 11’s controversial taskbar; and a rapid expansion of third‑party tooling and distribution options that together reshape how users and administrators interact with apps, drivers, and diagnostics on Windows...