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Anon installs Microsoft Windows 11 — the short, deadpan greentext image circulating on meme sites and Reddit is a tiny artifact that reveals a much larger story about software, culture, and the friction between user expectations and platform evolution. What begins as a punchline in the classic >be me greentext format quickly branches into debates about forced updates, hardware compatibility, community tooling, and the security trade‑offs that accompany modern OS design. This feature unpacks...

Microsoft has quietly closed a small but persistent annoyance in Windows 11: the Start‑menu option “Update and shut down” now behaves as advertised after Microsoft pushed a servicing correction into Insider preview builds and an optional October 28, 2025 preview cumulative update (KB5067036). Background For several years many Windows users — especially laptop owners and administrators — reported the same odd behaviour: selecting Update and shut down would apply updates but then leave the...

Microsoft’s long-simmering complaint about bloated right-click menus may finally get a meaningful fix: recent developer previews and a WinUI community demonstration show a split context menu approach that surfaces a single sensible default action for a file type while tucking related but less common commands into a compact secondary flyout — a design change that promises to trim vertical clutter in File Explorer and make contextual actions far more relevant. Background Windows’ context menu...

Endpoint protection is rapidly becoming one of the most critical components of a business data-security strategy, and the latest PC Pro roundup (November 6, 2025) reinforces that endpoint management consoles are no longer optional — they are mission-critical infrastructure for any organisation that wants to keep endpoints patched, configured and resilient against modern attack chains. The piece highlights ManageEngine’s Endpoint Central as a comprehensive unified endpoint management (UEM)...

CAEVES says its new AI-powered Deep Storage™ platform for Microsoft Azure will turn long-forgotten archives from cost centers into “AI-ready” assets — promising up to 70% lower TCO, semantic search across millions of files, and integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot so archived content can be queried directly in an enterprise Copilot environment. These claims, announced in a company press release and echoed across trade outlets and the vendor’s own site, position CAEVES as a storage-and-AI...

If Task Manager on your Windows 11 PC keeps spawning invisible copies of itself after you click the Close (X) button, you’re dealing with a recently reported duplication bug tied to the optional October 28, 2025 preview update KB5067036; this regression causes multiple background taskmgr.exe instances to accumulate, each using roughly 20–30 MB of RAM and a little CPU, and can be stopped or reversed with several practical workarounds until Microsoft ships a patch. Background / Overview The...

A single, tongue-in-cheek experiment — a Daily Mail screenshot fed into Microsoft Copilot and prompted to imagine “what Elon Musk would look like without hair transplants or weight‑loss drugs” — has become a flashpoint for two much bigger conversations: the limits and liabilities of AI image generation, and how public perception of a tech titan’s body and appearance intersects with real medical facts and health risks. The image that resulted — an exaggerated caricature more Dr. Evil than...

Microsoft’s latest update to Edge—Copilot Mode—is one of the more consequential shifts in how mainstream browsers treat artificial intelligence: it turns the browser from a passive viewer into an active assistant that can see what’s on your screen, reason across multiple tabs, remember ongoing research, and, with permission, act on your behalf to fill carts, click buttons, or prepare bookings. Background Copilot Mode is Microsoft’s attempt to make AI an integrated, day‑to‑day tool inside the...

Pasco County Schools will begin a cautious, teacher-led rollout of Microsoft Copilot for high school students on December 1, opening a controlled window for AI-assisted learning while explicitly keeping classroom authority, age gating, and evolving guidelines at the center of its approach. Background Pasco County’s shift reflects a broader trend across K–12 districts: move away from blanket bans on generative AI and toward managed, tenant‑grounded deployments that combine technical controls...

Microsoft’s attempt to defuse an Australian consumer-protection complaint by apologising and offering refunds has had the opposite effect: the company’s admission and remedial offer have sharpened the regulator’s allegations, broadened public scrutiny, and handed the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) a richer evidentiary record to pursue its Federal Court case. Background Microsoft integrated its generative‑AI assistant, Copilot, into consumer Microsoft 365 Personal and...

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong used the APEC leaders’ stage in Gyeongju to deliver a clear policy imperative: governments must take the lead in preparing workers for the AI transition rather than leaving reskilling and social protection to the market alone. This message — delivered at the Asia‑Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting on 31 October–1 November 2025 — frames workforce training, AI assurance, and cross‑border data frameworks as the three pillars that will...

The free-AI chatbot era that began in 2022 has matured into a full-blown ecosystem battle in 2025 — a practical, messy, and often brilliant landscape where ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, DeepSeek, and Meta AI each stake a claim to being the “best” assistant for different jobs. My hands-on re-test of eight widely used chatbots (112 text and image prompts across ten text tests and four image tests) — the same approach described in the comparison piece you...

Anthropic has pushed Claude from chat assistant to spreadsheet coworker, rolling out a beta "Claude for Excel" add‑in and a broad set of licensed data connectors and prebuilt finance workflows designed to put the AI directly into the temple of modern finance: Microsoft Excel. Background: why this matters right now Finance runs on spreadsheets, licensed market data, and auditable workflows. Embedding an LLM that can read, edit and generate workbooks inside Excel is more than a productivity...

Microsoft’s Copilot platform just received a sweeping Fall update that stitches generative AI into Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365 more tightly than ever — introducing twelve headline features (including a new expressive assistant called Mico), deeper enterprise-facing connectors and memory, shared “Groups” sessions for up to 32 participants, and a new stack of Microsoft-built MAI models intended to reduce reliance on third-party LLMs while enabling tighter multimodal workflows. Background...

Microsoft’s quick apology and refund offer after Australia’s consumer watchdog sued over the Copilot rollout has exposed a deeper fault line: a well-intentioned remediation that appears to backfire by drawing fresh attention to design choices, regulatory exposure and the ethics of monetising AI inside subscriptions. Background / Overview Microsoft folded Copilot, its generative AI assistant, into consumer Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plans as part of a broader product and pricing change...

Microsoft has quietly added a formal channel for staff to flag ethical, human‑rights, and dual‑use concerns about product development and customer deployments, following months of internal unrest and high‑profile reporting about Azure’s alleged use in Israeli military surveillance operations. Background / Overview In late 2025, a string of investigative reports alleged that Israeli military intelligence — widely associated in reporting with Unit 8200 — had used Microsoft Azure to ingest...

Microsoft’s global Azure disruption on October 29 — traced to a single, inadvertent tenant configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) — exposed how brittle cloud architectures can become when a centralized control plane, identity services, and automated deployment pipelines are tightly coupled. The incident left Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, Xbox Live, and thousands of customer websites suffering increased latencies, sign‑in failures, and intermittent availability for nearly nine...

Windows’ decade-long dominance is ending in a way few anticipated: the Sunset of Windows 10 has created a sudden — and unusually visible — intersection of security deadlines, corporate refresh cycles and a literal pile of valuable materials waiting inside old machines, and what began as a technical lifecycle notice has become both an environmental alarm and a commercial opportunity for refurbishers, recyclers and IT planners. Background Windows 10 shipped in 2015 and has been a long-running...

EaseUS’ Disk Copy 6.9.0 introduces a one‑step “Migrate to Win11” workflow that promises to clone a system disk and perform a Windows 11 upgrade on the target drive in a single, guided operation — including automated compatibility checks and workarounds for TPM and Secure Boot blockers. Background Microsoft’s hardware and firmware requirements for Windows 11 — most notably UEFI + Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, and a modern CPU baseline — left a sizeable portion of the Windows 10 installed base with a...

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong used the APEC leaders’ stage in Gyeongju to deliver a clear, policy-forward message: governments must lead the effort to prepare workers for the AI transition, not leave retraining and social protection to market forces alone. His intervention — urging reskilling and upskilling at national scale, redesigning jobs around human‑AI collaboration, and building trusted governance frameworks for AI — crystallises the argument that public policy must do the...