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If you’re trying to get an ATI/AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4200 working reliably under Windows 10, the practical reality is simple and unambiguous: treat the HD 4200 as legacy hardware, accept the Microsoft‑supplied legacy driver from Windows Update (or your OEM’s Windows 10 package for the exact laptop model) as the safest path, and consider archived AMD Catalyst packages only as an advanced, last‑resort option that requires careful backups and technical experience. Background / Overview The...

Microsoft’s move to ship Windows 11 version 26H1 as a device‑specific, platform‑only release represents a deliberate engineering pivot: Microsoft will factory‑flash this release on a narrow set of next‑generation Arm machines (chiefly Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 line) rather than deliver it as a broad feature update for the existing PC installed base. This is not a cosmetic version bump — it’s a new platform baseline (internally codenamed Bromine) meant to enable deep kernel, scheduler...

When a local newsroom asked Microsoft Copilot to write a 300‑word Valentine to Indianapolis, the result landed like a carefully folded letter: warm, specific, and — as IndyStar put it — “steady, genuine and quietly confident.” That short experiment is more than a charming aside for Valentine’s Day; it’s a compact case study in what modern generative AI can do well, where it still falls short, and how newsrooms and communities should think about machines that can now write about us as...

For a generation of patients the warning label on symptom self‑help was simple: trust Dr. Google with caution. The new twist, delivered by recent research and independent audits, is sharper and more unsettling — conversational AI assistants like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot can make that caution feel insufficient. In controlled tests that mirror how ordinary people actually seek medical help, chatbots often underperformed traditional search engines and structured...

Microsoft quietly closed a nine-month gap that let some third‑party browsers either fail to launch or — worse — behave as if they were unblocked when Microsoft Family Safety’s Web Filtering was turned on, delivering the correction from the cloud rather than as a visible Windows update. Background / Overview For parents and administrators who rely on Microsoft Family Safety to enforce age‑appropriate web access, the system is intentionally Edge‑first: Microsoft Edge integrates directly with...

Intel’s latest Wi‑Fi driver package, version 24.20.0, is rolling out with a small but significant change for roaming behavior — an Advanced toggle that enables channel‑load‑based AP selection during roaming — and expanded support for Intel’s Wi‑Fi 7 silicon. The release bundles bug fixes, stability improvements, and clarifications about where full Wi‑Fi 7 functionality is actually usable (hint: modern Windows 11 builds and matching firmware matter). Background Wireless drivers are often...

Microsoft’s announcement that Windows 11 version 26H1 exists — and that it will only appear on a narrow set of new ARM PCs — is less a consumer-facing update and more an engineering concession to the realities of modern silicon. The release is a factory‑flashed platform image, tied to next‑generation SoCs such as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 family, designed to deliver the low‑level kernel, driver, power‑management and NPU plumbing those chips require out of the box rather than to push new UI...

Microsoft’s clarification that Windows 11 version 26H1 is a device‑targeted, platform‑level release — and Microsoft’s visible example of that targeting being Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 — has reset expectations around what this release actually is, who will see it, and whether other Arm entrants such as NVIDIA’s N1/N1X are included. Microsoft’s own support documentation labels 26H1 as “available only on new devices with select new silicon,” and the company explicitly frames 26H1 as platform...

Microsoft’s decision to ship Windows 11 version 26H1 as a narrowly scoped, factory-installed platform image for new Arm-based laptops — led by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 family — marks a deliberate engineering break from Microsoft’s usual annual feature cadence and raises immediate questions for consumers, enterprises, OEMs and developers about update pathways, device fragmentation, and the practical meaning of “Copilot+” hardware readiness. Background / Overview Microsoft published an...

The ET Now segment advising investors how to build a Rs 2 crore retirement corpus distilled a familiar and powerful message: disciplined SIPs, sensible core-satellite fund selection and annual step‑ups can materially change long‑term outcomes — but the headline figures hinge on return assumptions and on avoiding concentration and timing risks. Background / Overview Mutual fund SIPs remain one of the most accessible routes for Indian retail investors to build long-term wealth. The ET Now...

The first weeks of Matric 2026 are the most important you will spend this year: they set the tone for everything that follows, from assessment strategies and portfolio choices to mental-health routines and post‑school planning. What starts as a flurry of ceremonies and social milestones now needs to become a disciplined, realistic plan — one that balances ambition with wellbeing and that turns one-off effort into sustainable habits. This feature unpacks practical, evidence‑backed steps that...

A wave of tech‑support fraud that weaponized paid Bing search ads and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage burst into view in early February, converting routine web searches into convincing “Azure Support” scare pages and phone scams that hit at least 48 U.S. organizations across healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors within hours of the campaign’s start. s out not because it introduced a new malware family, but because it married two mundane, trusted technologies—search advertising and...

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 version 26H1 — the early, hardware‑focused release shipping with the first Snapdragon X2 PCs this spring — will not be offered an in‑place update to the annual 26H2 feature update this fall, leaving devices that ship on the new 26H1 platform on a separate servicing lane until Microsoft publishes a later convergence release. Background Microsoft’s Windows release cadence has settled into an annual, H2 feature update rhythm for the broad installed base...

DXC’s decision to roll Amazon Quick across its entire workforce and package that experience into a commercial practice signals a clear inflection point in how large systems integrators intend to sell, govern, and scale agentic AI inside enterprises—and it raises as many questions about risk, integration, and vendor dynamics as it promises practical value. Background DXC Technology announced on February 10, 2026 that it has completed an enterprise-wide deployment of Amazon Quick—the agentic...

Microsoft has begun internal tests of a free, ad‑supported path into Xbox Cloud Gaming that would let non‑subscribers stream select Xbox titles for short, ad‑backed sessions — a move that could materially widen access to cloud play while forcing Microsoft and its publishing partners to reconcile streaming economics, ad policy, and user experience trade‑offs. Background and overview Xbox Cloud Gaming — once known as Project xCloud — matured into the streaming backbone for Xbox Game Pass...

Microsoft has quietly resolved a long‑running Windows 10 parental‑controls problem that could let children temporarily bypass content filters when using non‑Edge browsers — a fix delivered from Microsoft’s servers rather than as a visible Windows update, and one that should reach affected machines automatically over the coming weeks. Background / Overview Parental controls in Windows have relied on Microsoft Family Safety’s web filtering to let parents restrict or monitor the sites their...

It’s happening quietly, but it’s consequential: Microsoft has stopped automatically distributing new legacy printer drivers (the long-familiar V3 and V4 packages) through Windows Update for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025, and the company has published a clear multi‑year timeline that redirects responsibility for legacy-driver servicing to printer manufacturers and IT teams. Background For more than two decades, Windows Update has been the safety net that let ordinary users and IT...

Microsoft has quietly moved desktop personalization further into the mainstream: Windows 11 now has a dedicated Free Themes Hub inside the Microsoft Store that bundles hundreds of curated, one‑click themes and ties them directly into Settings for instant application and management. Background / Overview For years Windows personalization lived in several places: a legacy Microsoft themes download page, scattered Store listings, and manual .themepack files users handled themselves. That...

The AI sector may be moving into what investors and some analysts are calling a cavitation period — a moment when gargantuan infrastructure spending collides with modest, still-maturing commercial revenues — and the consequences will test strategy, balance sheets, and the future shape of digital labor markets. Background Over the past two years hyperscalers and cloud providers have shifted from curiosity to full-scale industrialization of AI. Capital expenditure plans for 2025–2026 among the...

Microsoft and PC OEMs are coordinating a broad, time‑sensitive replacement of the Secure Boot certificates first deployed in 2011 — the original Microsoft UEFI/KEK/PCA certificates begin expiring in June 2026 (with a remaining production PCA following later in 2026). Microsoft has issued a replacement family (the 2023 CA set) and is delivering it via a mix of Windows servicing (automatic, phased updates) and OEM firmware packages; devices that do not receive the 2023 certificates before the...