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Microsoft’s June 23, 2026 Windows 11 preview update, KB5095093, fixes a storage bug in which the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal system file can reportedly swell from a few kilobytes or megabytes to tens or hundreds of gigabytes on affected PCs. The failure is not glamorous, but it is exactly the sort of Windows problem that makes users distrust the operating system: silent, obscure, and discovered only after the C: drive starts gasping for air. As ZDNET’s Lance Whitney reported, building on...

On July 7, 2026, Connected World reported that Microsoft is pitching AI assistants for freight rail through CSX and Brazil’s Rumo, using Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI, and SharePoint to turn shipment, procedure, and operations data into faster customer and frontline decisions. The case studies are not really about chatbots, even if chat is the interface. They are about whether railroads can finally make use of the operational data they have been collecting for decades without...

Dave Plummer, the former Microsoft engineer best known for creating Windows Task Manager, recently demonstrated a Notepad-like Windows application called TinyRetroPad that fits into roughly 2,686 bytes, and Windows Central used the project to argue that modern Windows software often ships far more machinery than the job requires. That is not a nostalgia stunt so much as an indictment. The point is not that every Windows app should be written in x86 assembly, or that Copilot-era Notepad...

Micro Center says AMD Ryzen is now its leading gaming desktop CPU family and that roughly one in three gaming desktop graphics cards it sells is AMD Radeon, according to a July 7 Wccftech report quoting Micro Center president and CEO Rick Mershad. The claim is narrow but meaningful: this is not global market share, and it is not a Steam survey, but it is a signal from one of America’s most enthusiast-heavy PC retailers. AMD’s CPU win now looks less like a hot product cycle and more like a...

ASRock has marked the 10th anniversary of its Taichi brand with a “Decade of Mastery” showcase that includes concept versions of Z890 and X870E motherboards, a Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card, a 540Hz OLED monitor, a 1650W Titanium PSU, and a 360mm AIO cooler. The important word is not anniversary. It is concept. As reported by Wccftech and laid out on ASRock’s own anniversary microsite, these machines are not heading to retail shelves, at least not in their commemorative form. That makes...

CiraSync said on July 7, 2026, in an EIN Presswire release from Austin, Texas, that government agencies and emergency response organizations are using its Microsoft 365 contact-sync platform to push current directory data to employee devices and reduce communication delays in the field. The pitch sounds narrow, almost clerical: keep phone numbers and contact cards fresh. But for public-sector IT, the humble address book has become one of those low-glamour systems whose failure is felt only...

Intel’s next-generation Nova Lake client CPUs are reportedly set to restore AVX-512-class support through AVX10.2, with Linux kernel patches spotted on July 7, 2026 indicating 512-bit vector execution across both performance cores and efficiency cores. That is not a launch announcement, and Intel has not yet stood on a stage and said the words. But if the reporting from Tom’s Hardware, Guru3D, and Wccftech holds, this is more than another esoteric checkbox in a CPU feature table. It is Intel...

Microsoft is previewing Cloud rebuild in Windows 11 Insider Experimental Preview Build 26300.8772, released July 6, 2026, as a Windows Recovery Environment option that reinstalls the operating system from Windows Update even when the installed copy of Windows cannot boot. As ZDNET’s Lance Whitney reported, the pitch is simple: if Windows is too broken to rescue itself, Microsoft wants WinRE to fetch a clean Windows image and the device’s drivers without asking users to hunt for USB media...

Microsoft’s June 23, 2026 optional Windows 11 preview update KB5095093 addresses a storage bug in versions 24H2 and 25H2 that can cause the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file under ProgramData to swell from a few megabytes into tens or hundreds of gigabytes on the system drive. The issue, highlighted by Gizmodo and investigated in detail by Windows Latest, is a classic Windows problem in miniature: obscure plumbing, real user pain, and a fix hidden inside a bland cumulative-update...

Valve published official Windows 11 drivers for the 2026 Steam Machine on July 7, 2026, giving owners downloadable support for graphics, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and the SD card reader if they replace SteamOS with Microsoft’s operating system. As GamesRadar+ framed it with appropriate horror-comedy, this is now technically possible even if it feels spiritually wrong. The bigger story is not that Valve has invited Windows into its living-room cube; it is that Valve has made Windows a supported...

Microsoft said on July 6, 2026, that it will cut about 4,800 jobs globally, including roughly 3,200 roles in Xbox through fiscal 2027, while spinning out or divesting several game studios after years of costly expansion. The move is not simply another layoff notice from a Big Tech company trying to flatter margins. It is Microsoft admitting that the Xbox model it built through acquisitions, Game Pass, cloud ambitions, and multi-platform publishing has not produced the operating leverage Wall...

Nokia signed a multi-year agreement with SAP, announced July 2026 and concluded at the end of 2025, to move its SAP S/4HANA environment into a RISE with SAP transformation model hosted on Microsoft Azure. The deal is not a flashy consumer launch, but it is the sort of enterprise plumbing decision that quietly determines how AI actually reaches large companies. As reported by MENAFN from SAP’s announcement and echoed by SAP-focused outlets including Portal ERP and regional technology press...

Jack Wallen at ZDNET spotlighted Blip in July 2026 as a free personal file-transfer app for Android that also runs on Windows, macOS, iOS, and iPadOS, promising direct, original-quality transfers with no advertised file-size limits and a paid business tier. The interesting part is not that another utility can fling a photo across a room. It is that Blip aims squarely at the gap Apple, Google, and Microsoft still have not closed: painless sharing across the devices people actually own. For...

Windows 11 users can install Windows Movie Maker 6.0 from a preserved installer on the Internet Archive, according to PCWorld and Windows Latest, even though Microsoft ended Windows Essentials support on January 10, 2017, and no longer offers Movie Maker as a sanctioned download. That simple fact carries more weight than nostalgia usually deserves. The return of Movie Maker is not really about one abandoned video editor; it is about the widening gap between what Windows users remember as...

Microsoft’s 13-inch Surface Pro OLED with Snapdragon X2 Elite is now being tested as a 2026 flagship convertible, and Notebookcheck’s review data shows a familiar Surface story: strong display and audio polish, higher Arm performance, and lingering questions about value, thermals, and Windows-on-Arm tradeoffs. The headline is not that Microsoft has finally made a tablet that can pretend to be a laptop; it has been making that argument for more than a decade. The headline is that the Surface...

Microsoft is preparing a broad Microsoft Teams update for 2026 that will add a more proactive AI Facilitator, AI-generated notes for in-person Teams Rooms meetings, dedicated Muted and Meeting chat sections, revised guest invitation emails, and a cleaner screen-sharing interface across the collaboration app. The immediate story, first reported by Windows Latest and amplified by Windows Report, is a bundle of features. The larger story is Microsoft trying to make Teams feel less like a...

La Tienda de las Licencias is a Spanish online reseller operated by MYA WIFI S.L.U. that markets discounted Windows, Office, server, SQL, Microsoft 365, and security software licenses internationally, grounding its business model in the European Union’s 2012 UsedSoft v. Oracle ruling on resale rights. The company’s pitch is simple: genuine software, emailed quickly, at prices that make Microsoft’s retail store look like a luxury boutique. The harder story is that “activates successfully” and...

Microsoft Intune now lets administrators apply selected endpoint security policies to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint-managed devices that are not enrolled in Intune, extending cloud policy enforcement across Windows, Windows Server, macOS, and Linux through Defender rather than traditional mobile device management. That is the practical answer to the update highlighted by Petri and grounded in Microsoft’s own Intune documentation, but the larger story is not merely another checkbox in the...

S&P Global Market Intelligence has built a cross-region disaster recovery design for its Capital IQ platform on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, using SnapMirror snapshots and FlexClone volumes to make a read-only SQL Server environment available in AWS’s US-West-2 region within 15 minutes. The interesting part is not that a financial-data giant moved another workload to the cloud. It is that S&P Global chose not to treat disaster recovery as a binary switch between dead and fully restored. As...

Microsoft has extended the consumer Windows 10 Extended Security Updates program through October 12, 2027, giving enrolled personal PCs another year of critical and important security patches after Windows 10’s official end of support on October 14, 2025. The change was quiet, but not small. It is Microsoft admitting, without quite saying so, that Windows 10 is too widely installed, too useful, and too entangled with older hardware to cut loose on the original schedule. As noted by...