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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 arrives on PC with a clearly tiered set of system requirements, an enforced firmware-level anti‑cheat posture, and a timed preload window — all of which matter for anyone planning to play at launch or in the first few weeks after release. Background / Overview Beenox (in partnership with Treyarch and Activision) delivered the PC client for Black Ops 7 as a platform‑first build, emphasizing performance tuning, vendor upscaling/frame‑generation support, and deep...

Microsoft’s latest push to make voice a first‑class way to interact with PCs signals a deliberate pivot: Windows is being reframed not just as an operating system, but as a conversational, context‑aware assistant platform that expects users to speak, show and — in carefully permissioned cases — let the machine act on their behalf. Background / Overview Microsoft has been iterating on voice and accessibility tools in Windows for years, from early speech recognition systems to the modern Voice...

Microsoft’s October servicing wave forced an uncomfortable spotlight onto BitLocker’s recovery model this month: a security update released October 14, 2025 pushed some Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems into the BitLocker recovery screen, and on a subset of machines the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) refused to accept USB keyboard and mouse input — a worst‑case combination that left users with recovery keys but no way to enter them. Microsoft acknowledged the problem, published...

Microsoft’s WinUI team quietly showed a path out of one of Windows 11’s longest‑running UX gripes: the bloated right‑click (context) menu. The company is experimenting with a Split Context Menu pattern — powered by a new WinUI control referred to as SplitMenuFlyoutItem — which collapses related verbs into a single, split menu row (left side = immediate/default action; right side = compact secondary flyout). The aim is straightforward: make context menus far shorter and more useful by...

Infosys’ announcement that it has developed an AI Agent tailored for energy‑sector operations signals a calculated move to convert agentic generative AI from marketing rhetoric into a practical, production‑oriented offering for drilling, utilities, pipelines and power generation — a solution the company says combines Infosys Topaz, Infosys Cobalt and Microsoft’s Copilot Studio plus Azure AI Foundry models (including ChatGPT/GPT‑family capabilities) to automate reporting, surface predictive...

Boeing has quietly launched a new digital training product called Virtual Airplane — starting with the Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer (VAPT) for the Boeing 737 MAX — a cloud-enabled, tablet- and laptop-friendly platform that pairs Boeing-authored procedural content with Microsoft Flight Simulator visuals and Microsoft Azure cloud services to deliver on‑demand procedural rehearsal, authoring, and learning analytics to airlines and training organisations. Background Boeing’s move follows...

Nebius this week unveiled a production-grade “Open AI Platform” — marketed as Nebius Token Factory — a full‑stack inference and model‑lifecycle product pitched as an enterprise alternative to hyperscaler AI services and designed to host, fine‑tune and run open‑weight models at scale. Background Nebius is an AI‑infrastructure company that emerged from the international operations of a larger search‑engine group and has since re‑positioned itself as a vertically integrated “neocloud” provider...

EaseUS’ latest Disk Copy 6.9.0 bundles disk cloning, UEFI/GPT preparation, Windows 11 payload staging and an in-place OS upgrade into a single guided wizard called “Migrate to Win11”, promising to move a running Windows 10 system to a new drive and complete the Windows 11 upgrade on that clone without reinstalling apps or reconfiguring user settings. Background / Overview Microsoft’s announced end-of-support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has put many consumers and small IT teams on a...

Keeper Security’s new Forcefield lands as a direct countermeasure to one of the fastest-growing attack vectors on Windows endpoints: memory-based credential theft and in-memory “infostealer” malware that scrapes browsers, extensions and running apps for secrets. Background Memory-based attacks have surged in frequency and impact over recent years as adversaries shift from noisy, disk-resident malware toward fileless techniques that live in process memory. Security telemetry and industry...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider preview has pushed handheld Windows gaming into a new, console‑like direction — and the MSI Claw 8 AI is one of the first devices to show what that future looks like in practice. Background / Overview Microsoft introduced a purpose‑built, controller‑first session posture for Windows — the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) — as part of its ongoing work to make handheld Windows PCs feel more like dedicated consoles when you want to play. The feature is not...

Windows 10 and 11 both hide powerful, no‑install screen recording tools that let you capture, narrate, and save video clips in just a few clicks — whether you want a quick how‑to, a classroom demo, or a gameplay highlight. Built into the OS, the Xbox Game Bar and (in modern Windows 11 builds) the Snipping Tool handle the vast majority of everyday recording needs, leaving heavier workflows to third‑party apps like OBS or ShareX. Background / Overview Windows historically shipped with simple...

Microsoft has finally closed one of those quietly maddening Windows chapters: the Start‑menu command labeled “Update and shut down” now behaves as advertised in the tested Windows 11 builds, thanks to a targeted servicing correction shipped in the October 28, 2025 optional preview (KB5067036) and staged for broader distribution on Patch Tuesday, November 11, 2025. This fix addresses an intermittent, environment‑dependent orchestration bug that in many systems caused the OS to install updates...

Microsoft has quietly solved one of typing’s long-standing irritations in Windows 11: you can now insert an en dash (–) with Windows key + minus (-) and an em dash (—) with Windows key + Shift + minus — system‑wide, across text fields, and without fuss. Background For decades, Windows users who cared about typographic precision have been forced into a patchwork of workarounds: memorizing Alt codes (Alt+0150 for en dash, Alt+0151 for em dash), opening the Character Map, using the Emoji &...

Cloud security has reached a clear inflection point: new IDC research — amplified by Microsoft’s security team — reports that organizations saw an average of more than nine cloud security incidents in 2024, with 89% of respondents saying incidents increased year‑over‑year, and the data is pushing security leaders toward unified, cloud‑native defenses. Background Cloud adoption accelerated through the last several years, and the security picture has changed from perimeter defense to...

Lakeside Software’s launch of a dedicated SysTrack Cloud region in Microsoft Azure’s India footprint is a pragmatic expansion aimed at lowering latency, improving data residency controls, and giving enterprise IT teams in India and nearby markets a locally hosted option for Digital Employee Experience (DEX) telemetry and analytics. Background / Overview Lakeside Software builds SysTrack, an AI-driven Digital Employee Experience (DEX) platform that collects endpoint telemetry, analyzes...

Boeing today unveiled the Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer (VAPT), a cloud-enabled training product that pairs Microsoft Azure infrastructure with Microsoft Flight Simulator to let pilots and training teams practice flight‑deck procedures on laptops and tablets — starting with the Boeing 737 MAX and expanding to other types later. Background Aviation training has been quietly evolving for a decade as airlines, training centres and OEMs look to reduce costs, increase access and scale...

Perplexity AI is now something you can run like a native app on Windows — but there are distinct ways to get there, each with trade‑offs. The Vietnamese guide posted on Báo Nghệ An summarizes three practical routes for Windows 10 and 11 users: installing the official Perplexity desktop installer, or creating a Progressive Web App (PWA) wrapper using Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome. Those three methods give you the same Perplexity experience in different packaging: a signed native installer...

If you’ve noticed more frosted glass around Windows 11 lately, you’re not imagining things: Microsoft’s Fluent visuals are quietly evolving, and the platform is giving developers finer control over where and how the familiar Acrylic blur appears inside apps. What used to be an either/or choice — apply blur to an entire window surface or not at all — is shifting toward a model where Acrylic and related backdrop materials can be targeted to individual UI elements such as menus, flyouts, and...

The October 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5066835) shipped critical security patches — but it also introduced multiple regressions that broke localhost HTTP/2 connections for developers, disabled USB input inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), interfered with File Explorer’s preview pane, and caused a string of installation errors and peripheral quirks that forced Microsoft into emergency remediation. Background / Overview Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday (released...

Windows 11’s quiet, incremental upgrades have a habit of being overshadowed by flashy headlines — and right now the headline magnet is Copilot. But the single most consequential feature added to the OS in recent updates isn’t an AI assistant at all: it’s passkeys — a modern, cryptographic, and phishing‑resistant replacement for passwords that Windows now surfaces natively in Settings and ties to Windows Hello. This change makes everyday sign‑in both safer and dramatically easier for millions...