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Microsoft’s consumer-facing Copilot rollout has produced a high‑stakes regulatory confrontation in Australia: the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says roughly 2.7 million Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers were misled about renewal choices after Copilot was bundled into those plans, and the dispute has now widened to include claims that Microsoft apologised and offered refunds to affected customers — a claim reported by some outlets but not yet clearly...

The upcoming IPWatchdog webinar on November 20, 2025, frames a question that has quietly become central to every patent shop and in‑house IP team: when should you reach for a general‑purpose AI like ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, and when does the task demand an IP‑specific AI trained and engineered for patent drafting, claim optimization, and office‑action responses? Background AI adoption in intellectual property workflows has moved past pilots and proofs‑of‑concept into everyday practice...

Microsoft’s decision to apologise and offer refunds after Australia’s consumer watchdog took the company to court marks a pivotal moment in how Big Tech must communicate AI-driven changes to subscription products—and it raises probing questions about transparency, UX design and regulatory appetite for policing the monetisation of generative AI. Background In late 2024 Microsoft began integrating its generative-AI assistant, Copilot, into consumer Microsoft 365 plans. The integration was...

Accenture Ireland has appointed Wendy Walsh as its new Talent & Organisation Lead, a move that signals renewed focus on people-centred transformation as organisations in Ireland grapple with rapid AI adoption, hybrid work models, and the need to reskill at scale. Background Accenture’s Talent & Organisation (T&O) practice sits at the intersection of human resources, organisational design, leadership development and technology-enabled workforce transformation. The Ireland market — home to...

Google’s experimental AI Mode in Search has taken a decisive step from “find-it-for-me” to do-it-for-me: Search Labs users in the U.S. can now ask Google’s AI to hunt real‑time availability and surface direct booking links for restaurant reservations, event tickets, and beauty & wellness appointments — effectively turning Search into an agentic, digital concierge that does the legwork across third‑party booking sites. Background / Overview AI Mode launched earlier in 2025 as Google’s...

Microsoft has confirmed that a display bug introduced after October’s cumulative updates is incorrectly telling some paid Extended Security Updates (ESU) customers that their Windows 10 installations have “reached the end of support,” even though those devices remain entitled to and continue receiving security patches. Background Microsoft formally ended mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and released the final broad monthly cumulative updates for the consumer servicing...

Microsoft appears to be widening the canvas for Windows 11’s visual language and smoothing a long-standing friction point for hybrid web apps: the Acrylic “frosted glass” material will be usable in smaller, targeted regions of WinUI apps, and WebView2-based apps are receiving drag‑and‑drop reliability and performance improvements that make web apps behave far more like native Windows 11 programs. Background Windows 11 introduced a distinct visual toolkit—Fluent Design—that blends subtle...

If you need to wipe, refresh, or completely restore a Dell laptop running Windows 10, there are multiple safe, supported ways to do it — from the Settings app and Windows Recovery Environment to BIOS/SupportAssist tools and command-line tricks — and each path has trade‑offs you should understand before you proceed. The Windows Report “7 Ways to Factory Reset Your Dell Laptop on Windows 10” guide lays out the common user-facing options, but there are important technical details, gotchas, and...

Microsoft’s web-based Store has quietly gained a practical new convenience: a multi-app install workflow that lets you pick a curated set of Windows apps in your browser, download a tiny launcher, and have the Microsoft Store app on your PC fetch and install all selected titles in one go — a GUI-driven, store-backed alternative to one-off downloads and a friendly complement to winget for non-command-line users. Background Microsoft has been steadily modernizing the Microsoft Store for...

Shopify’s third-quarter numbers arrived like a punctuation mark — strong top-line growth, a powerful GMV rebound, and a wave of AI-driven product moves that prompted Morgan Stanley to lift its price target and keep the stock on dealers’ radar. Background / Overview Shopify has long presented itself as a platform business built on two complementary engines: Subscription Solutions (merchant plans and software tools) and Merchant Solutions (payments, checkout, shipping, and financing). That...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 preview release signals a notable shift in how Microsoft will deliver security fixes: a preview hotpatch that installs without forcing a system restart, promising less downtime for users and faster compliance for administrators while exposing new operational trade-offs for IT teams and power users. Background Microsoft has expanded a technology long used on Windows Server—hotpatching—into Windows 11 client servicing. Hotpatch updates are a subset of...

EaseUS’ latest Disk Copy 6.9.0 adds a single‑wizard “Migrate to Win11” mode that promises to clone a system disk and perform a Windows 11 upgrade on the target drive in one automated flow — including automated partition preparation, Windows 11 payload staging, and built‑in compatibility workarounds to proceed where official hardware checks (TPM, Secure Boot, CPU list) would otherwise block the upgrade. Background Windows users and small IT teams face a hard calendar constraint: Microsoft...

FlyOOBE’s latest public build — version 1.51.644 — continues the project’s steady evolution from a compact Windows 11 installer bypass into a full-featured Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) toolkit, folding the legacy Flyby11 upgrader into the main app, expanding the PowerShell‑based extensions engine, and addressing several high‑DPI UI issues that affected 4K and scaling levels above 200%. Background / Overview FlyOOBE (formerly Flyby11) began as a pragmatic community tool to let technically...

Microsoft’s console-style Full Screen Experience has finally arrived for MSI’s Claw handhelds via the Windows 11 Insider preview, offering a controller-first launcher, measurable runtime trimming, and modest frame‑rate gains — but it’s a preview feature with real-world caveats that owners should test cautiously before making it a daily driver. Background / Overview The Full Screen Experience (FSE) is a layered Windows 11 session posture that makes a chosen “home app” — typically the Xbox PC...

Sony has finally delivered the long‑promised cloud upgrade for the PlayStation Portal, turning the handheld from a Remote Play accessory into a true, stand‑alone streaming device for thousands of PS5 games — but the move rewrites assumptions about ownership, network hygiene, and where PlayStation fits in a cloud‑first gaming era. Background / Overview The PlayStation Portal debuted in late 2023 as a tethered Remote Play companion for PS5 owners. It relied on a paired PS5 to run titles while...

Microsoft has moved Copilot Mode out of the experimental lab and into Edge for all users, turning the browser into a permissioned, voice-enabled assistant that can read pages, reason across tabs, and — with explicit consent — perform multi-step tasks on the web. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot strategy has been a multi-year effort to make conversational AI a first-class part of everyday computing, threading Copilot across Windows, Microsoft 365, and Edge. What used to be isolated...

When you finish a fresh Windows 11 setup and are greeted by promotional suggestions, recommended apps, and “helpful” tips peppered through the UI, it feels like the operating system is selling you things before it lets you work — and that experience can be fixed in minutes by flipping a handful of built‑in toggles. This feature walks through the exact settings to make Windows 11 largely ad‑free, explains why those promotional surfaces exist, weighs the trade‑offs and risks of disabling them...

Microsoft’s Store is quietly offering a new convenience: build a bundle of apps in your browser, download a single small launcher, run it on a PC and have the Microsoft Store app fetch and install the selected titles — up to a curated limit — in one go. Background / Overview The Microsoft Store’s new “multi‑app install” capability appears as a web‑only workflow that exposes a curated grid of Store listings grouped into categories such as Productivity, Creativity, Social, Entertainment, Tools...

Napster’s announcement that it is among the first Microsoft partners to deploy Azure agentic AI for enterprises marks a clear milestone in the shift from experimental pilots to productized, low‑latency conversational agents that can be deployed at scale—and it asks enterprise IT teams to make hard choices about architecture, governance, and cost control before pressing “go.” Background / Overview Napster—formerly Infinite Reality—rebranded and repositioned itself earlier in 2025 as a...

Microsoft’s latest AI push folds two big moves into one clear strategic play: a multibillion-dollar, in-region infrastructure and partnership program in the United Arab Emirates that formalizes sovereign cloud and in‑country Copilot processing, and a rapid rollout of Nvidia’s Blackwell family of AI processors across Azure to give Microsoft the rack‑scale compute needed for next‑generation generative and reasoning workloads. The headlines — tens of thousands of Blackwell‑class GPUs headed to...