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Microsoft quietly pulled the plug on the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), but that doesn’t mean Windows 11 users are bereft of Android apps — they aren’t tied to Google Play on the desktop the way they once were, and there are safe, practical paths to keep using Android utilities on a PC. The official deprecation of WSA and the Amazon Appstore on Windows (effective March 5, 2025) is the key change; it removes the simplest native route to run Android apps on Windows, but the two most...

Microsoft has pulled back the curtain on Known Issue Rollback (KIR), the behind-the-scenes mechanism that lets Windows selectively undo problematic non‑security changes delivered in updates—using runtime feature flags, Group Policy templates, and the Windows Update cloud to flip specific behaviors back to their prior state without uninstalling entire updates. Background Windows updates are a constant trade-off between delivering new fixes and avoiding regressions. Historically, when an...

Microsoft’s return to a recurring BitLocker recovery bug — one that can force affected PCs into the 48‑digit recovery screen after installing October cumulative updates — is more than a one‑off irritation; it’s a stark reminder that Windows update rollouts still face fragile interactions with pre‑boot security and platform power states. Background The October servicing wave released on October 14, 2025 included cumulative updates that, in a subset of installs, caused affected devices to boot...

Windows 11 makes keeping your system clock accurate easy: enable a single toggle in Settings and Windows will sync with internet time servers, automatically handle daylight‑saving adjustments, and—when necessary—let you force an immediate sync or change the time zone manually. The short how‑to in the supplied Windows Report tutorial walks readers through the essential steps (Settings → Time & Language → Date & Time → Set time automatically), offers optional troubleshooting (Sync now...

A Daily Mail screenshot of Elon Musk on the Joe Rogan Experience, fed into Microsoft Copilot with the prompt “what would Elon Musk look like without hair transplants or weight‑loss drugs,” produced an exaggerated, grotesque AI‑generated portrait — a small stunt that illuminates much larger questions about generative AI, media practice, health reporting, and the limits of reconstructive imagery. Background / Overview Elon Musk’s public appearance and physical history have repeatedly become...

Microsoft’s abrupt reshaping of Microsoft 365 subscription tiers — folding Copilot into consumer plans, raising renewal prices, and failing to clearly disclose a non‑AI “Classic” alternative — has sparked a regulatory showdown in Australia, a public apology from Microsoft and a refund offer to affected subscribers, while raising urgent questions about subscription UX, disclosure obligations and the monetisation of AI features in everyday software. Background / Overview Microsoft began...

In a month when Microsoft continued to expand Copilot’s reach, hardened Teams against a sophisticated supply‑chain campaign, and pushed new hybrid‑work automations into the client, the November Microsoft Teams conversation felt less like a monthly update and more like a strategic pivot: Teams is becoming simultaneously more collaborative, more integrated with AI, and more entangled in enterprise governance conversations. The highlights — a reported email‑to‑chat convenience that lowers the...

Infosys’ new AI Agent for the energy sector marks a concrete step from marketing talk to operational automation: the solution stitches together Infosys Topaz, Infosys Cobalt, and Microsoft’s Copilot Studio and Azure OpenAI Foundry models (including legacy ChatGPT‑4o capabilities) to convert field and engineering data into conversational, actionable insights aimed at improving safety, reducing non‑productive time (NPT), and speeding decisions on wells and assets. Background The energy...

Microsoft Copilot’s Week 10 card for the NFL — published as part of USA TODAY’s ongoing experiment — reads like a fast, tidy primer for bettors and casual readers: one-line winners, precise final scores, and a compact explanation for each pick. The experiment again showcased the assistant’s strength at generating readable narratives and consistent heuristics, but the project also reinforced the same, nagging editorial concerns: data freshness, overprecision, and the human work required to...

The quiet hum of massive data centers and the clang of severance notices now define Seattle’s tech landscape: while Amazon, Microsoft and other regional giants pour billions into artificial intelligence infrastructure, the same companies are simultaneously shrinking corporate workforces — a paradox that has left managers, engineers and entire neighborhoods grappling with optimism about new AI products and profound anxiety about careers, community stability and operational resilience...

SACHI’s announcement that it has partnered with Microsoft Azure to power its pixel‑streamed, Unreal Engine 5 worlds marks a bold attempt to merge AAA cloud streaming with Web3 tokenomics — a combination that promises instant, console‑quality play from any browser while tying in decentralized ownership and in‑game economies. The claim is simple and headline‑friendly: stream full Unreal Engine 5 experiences from the cloud (no downloads, no high‑end GPU required) and use $SACHI to access...

Nebius’s Token Factory is the latest, and arguably most calculated, salvo in the unfolding competition for enterprise AI inference: a single platform that promises freedom from hyperscaler lock‑in, turnkey production inference at scale, and the operational guarantees large customers demand — all delivered from a rapidly expanding “neocloud” that only months ago signed a multi‑billion dollar supply deal with Microsoft. Overview Nebius unveiled Nebius Token Factory as a production‑grade...

Microsoft Azure suffered a regional disruption on 5 November when a reported datacenter “thermal event” in its West Europe cloud region forced automated cooling and hardware-protection actions that took a subset of storage scale units offline and produced degraded performance across numerous services — an incident that underlines how physical datacenter events can cascade into broad cloud outages and why redundancy choices matter now more than ever. Background / Overview Microsoft’s West...

Microsoft and Abu Dhabi’s G42 today announced a coordinated expansion that will add 200 megawatts (MW) of new data‑centre capacity in the United Arab Emirates through Khazna Data Centers, a G42 subsidiary — a project the partners say will be online before the end of 2026 and is explicitly framed as a strategic expansion of Azure‑grade cloud and AI infrastructure inside the UAE. Overview This development is part of a far broader push by Microsoft to expand its Gulf footprint and by the UAE to...

Microsoft’s latest Visual Studio roadmap makes one thing clear: the IDE’s next act is an aggressive shift from assistant-style suggestions to agentic, context-aware automation that can plan, act, and persist across the entire software lifecycle — and Microsoft is explicitly wiring the platform to host multiple high-capability models (including GPT‑5‑Codex) while giving enterprises governance primitives through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Background Microsoft’s Visual Studio team...

Microsoft has shipped a tangible step toward making Windows behave like a handheld console: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7051 (KB5067115) brings a full‑screen, controller‑first “Full Screen Experience” (FSE) to a broader set of devices—most notably MSI’s Claw family—while also surfacing an opt‑in Copilot taskbar experience and a handful of device‑gated experiments. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Full Screen Experience (commonly shortened to FSE) first appeared as the out‑of‑box...

Microsoft’s Teams ecosystem took another big step toward becoming the default hub for hybrid work this month, with a packed update wave that spans Teams Rooms hardware management, a multi‑model Copilot strategy, a high‑profile NHS Copilot trial, fresh security takedowns, and practical automation examples from a Norton Rose Fulbright engineer who turned Message Center noise into a Teams-driven change process. The implications are clear: Microsoft is folding AI, device management, and admin...

Infosys’ new AI Agent for energy operations is a purposeful step toward industrializing agentic AI across drilling, production and field operations — promising faster analysis of well logs, automated report generation, and predictive alerts while leaning on Infosys’ Topaz and Cobalt portfolios and Microsoft’s Copilot/Foundry stack to deliver the models, runtime and cloud plumbing needed for production deployments. Background / Overview Infosys announced an energy‑sector AI assistant that it...

Microsoft has quietly begun rolling out MAI-Image-1 — its first image-generation model built entirely in-house — into consumer-facing products, marking a clear strategic shift toward owning more of the generative-AI stack that powers Copilot and Bing features. Background / Overview Microsoft AI’s MAI-Image-1 was announced in mid-October and immediately positioned as a product-first, photorealism-focused text-to-image engine that prioritizes speed and workflow integration over headline...

Microsoft’s attempt to placate Australian subscribers with an apology and a refund offer after folding Copilot into consumer Microsoft 365 plans has had the opposite of the intended effect: the remediation has amplified the regulator’s allegations, produced fresh documentary evidence and intensified scrutiny of how companies monetise AI inside subscription services. Background / Overview Microsoft began integrating its generative‑AI assistant, Copilot, into consumer Microsoft 365 Personal...