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FlyOOBE’s latest public build, reported as FlyOOBE 1.51.644 in recent coverage, doubles down on the project’s shift from a one‑trick installer patcher into a compact Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) toolkit — bundling the original Flyby11 upgrade bypass as a native extension, expanding the PowerShell extensions engine, polishing UI scaling on high‑DPI displays, and refining how third‑party scripts are surfaced to users. Background / Overview Windows 11’s strict hardware gating — TPM 2.0, UEFI...

Microsoft has warned that a wave of October 2025 cumulative updates can unexpectedly drop some Windows 10 and Windows 11 machines into the BitLocker recovery screen — forcing users to supply a 48‑digit recovery key before the system will boot — and the problem has been linked to the October 14, 2025 updates (notably KB5066835 for Windows 11 and KB5066791 for Windows 10). Background / overview Windows’ built‑in full‑disk encryption, BitLocker, ties disk access to measured platform state (TPM...

EaseUS’ latest Disk Copy 6.9.0 pushes a bold gamble into the Windows migration market by combining disk cloning and a one‑step Windows 11 migration into a single workflow — the “Migrate to Win11” mode promises to clone your drive, upgrade the OS in place on the target disk, and even bypass common hardware checks such as TPM and Secure Boot where required, all while preserving files, applications and settings. Background Windows 10 reached its widely publicized end‑of‑support milestone in...

Microsoft and Meta’s coordinated rollout of Mixed Reality Link on October 30, 2025, moves the idea of a headset as a real productivity display from demonstration to deployable option: Quest 3 and Quest 3S owners can now stream a full Windows 11 desktop (local or Windows 365 Cloud PC), place multiple virtual monitors in mixed reality, use an ultrawide curved workspace, and — in later Horizon OS builds — open up to 12 app windows concurrently, all inside a single headset session. Background /...

A wave of October cumulative updates triggered a BitLocker recovery prompt on a subset of Windows PCs, and for some users the follow‑up behavior made recovery impossible without a stored recovery key — a scenario that risks permanent data loss if the key is not available. Background Microsoft shipped its October servicing wave on October 14, 2025. Within days, administrators and home users reported two distinct but related failures: affected machines could boot directly into the BitLocker...

Microsoft Teams — one of the world’s most widely used collaboration platforms — was shown to contain a set of trust‑breaking flaws that could let attackers impersonate executives, spoof notifications, rewrite chat history silently, and even forge caller identities in voice/video calls; Check Point Research disclosed the findings and Microsoft has issued fixes, including an iOS patch tracked as CVE‑2024‑38197. Background / Overview Microsoft Teams sits at the heart of many organizations’...

Windows 10’s retirement received an unexpected glitch: a post–October cumulative update caused some machines that are still eligible for extended support to display alarming “end of support” banners in Settings, prompting confusion for home users and alarm at scale for administrators. Background / Overview Microsoft formally ended mainstream support for the last serviced branch of Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. For most consumers that date marks the cessation of free, routine OS security...

Microsoft’s recent admission that some Windows 10 machines are showing an “end of support” banner even after customers enrolled in Extended Security Updates (ESU) has caused a predictable spike of alarm — but the root cause is a display bug, not a sudden loss of security patches, and Microsoft has pushed an automated server-side correction while preparing a longer-term fix. Background: what changed and why people noticed it Windows 10 reached its planned end of mainstream servicing in...

Windows 11’s 25H2 maintenance release arrives as a familiar-but-refined shell over last year’s 24H2 codebase, and with it comes the same friction many users have come to expect: taskbar clutter, persistent tips and recommendations, Web‑driven Copilot hooks, widget feeds, and a raft of preinstalled apps and prompts that make a “fresh” install feel busy instead of calm. This feature‑forward posture is optional to an extent — Microsoft exposes supported toggles to turn most of these behaviors...

Microsoft’s October servicing wave left a fresh scar on enterprise admins and cautious home users alike: several Windows 11 systems booted into the BitLocker recovery screen after installing October cumulative updates, and in a related regression USB keyboards and mice stopped responding inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). What began as isolated field reports escalated into an official Microsoft advisory and an out-of-band emergency patch — but the incident underscores both the...

Microsoft has quietly closed a frustrating chapter in Windows reliability by shipping a servicing fix that, for many users, finally makes the “Update and shut down” command do exactly what it promises: install updates and power the PC off instead of unexpectedly restarting or returning to the sign‑in screen. The change first appeared in an optional October 28, 2025 preview cumulative update (KB5067036) for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 24H2, and Microsoft has staged it for broader...

Microsoft has quietly added a small but consequential convenience to the Microsoft Store: a web‑created, multi‑app install workflow that lets you pick a curated set of apps, download a single tiny launcher, and have the Store download and install everything for you in one go. Background Setting up Windows has long involved a mundane ritual: visit vendor sites, download installers, answer permission prompts, and repeat that cycle a half dozen to a dozen times. Power users solved this with...

Microsoft is quietly testing a native Windows 11 feature that can stream the same Bluetooth audio to two headsets, earbuds, speakers or hearing aids at once — surfaced to Windows Insiders as a Quick Settings tile called Shared audio (preview) and built on the new Bluetooth LE Audio stack that includes the LC3 codec and Auracast-style broadcast primitives. Background / Overview Bluetooth audio on PCs has long been hamstrung by legacy design choices: high-fidelity one-way playback via A2DP or...

Artificial intelligence is not just another productivity tool — early research suggests it may be reshaping how we think, learn, and even speak, with consequences that range from practical classroom challenges to deeper cognitive shifts in memory, attention, and problem solving. New empirical work and a growing body of cognitive-science literature point to a complex picture: AI can be a powerful amplifier of human capability, but habitual reliance on generative systems appears to encourage...

Microsoft’s latest sovereignty push is a clear course correction: the company is packaging operational guarantees, localized compute capacity and partner-run national clouds into a single play designed to make Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure AI services acceptable to governments and regulated industries that insist data—and the AI work performed on it—stay inside national borders. Background / Overview Microsoft’s announcements over the past weeks extend existing data-residency work (the EU...

Nebius’s new Nebius Token Factory, unveiled on November 5, 2025, is a full-stack production inference platform that explicitly targets enterprises tired of closed, proprietary AI stacks and hyperscaler lock‑in — promising support for more than 60 open‑source models, sub‑second inference latency, autoscaling throughput and a 99.9% uptime SLA while running on Nebius’s growing global AI cloud. Background / Overview Nebius began life as the non‑Russian remnant of Yandex and completed its...

Microsoft has expanded Azure Migrate to support moving VMware virtual machines directly into Azure Local, giving IT teams a cloud‑managed, on‑premises migration path that preserves data residency, reduces pre‑migration setup, and introduces automation and IP retention features designed to minimize downtime and operational friction. This update — now documented as supported for Azure Local 2311.2+ and promoted from preview into broader availability — brings agentless discovery/replication...

Apple appears to be preparing a deliberate, pragmatic entry into the budget‑laptop market: a lightweight Mac codenamed J700, aimed at students, businesses and casual users, priced well under $1,000 and built around an iPhone-class system-on-chip rather than Apple’s M-series silicon. Background Apple’s rumored low‑cost Mac has circulated in rumor channels since mid‑2025, driven by analyst notes from Ming‑Chi Kuo and follow‑ups from supply‑chain reporters and tech press. The narrow narrative...

A sudden, alarming banner in Settings telling some Windows 10 PCs that they have “reached the end of support” was a cosmetic UI error — not a revocation of security updates — and Microsoft has pushed a cloud configuration correction plus an enterprise Known Issue Rollback (KIR) to clear the message for affected machines. Overview Shortly after Microsoft’s October servicing wave, a subset of Windows 10 devices began showing a red banner in Settings → Windows Update reading “Your version of...

Microsoft has quietly widened the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) beyond the ROG Xbox Ally family, rolling the console‑style, controller‑first shell out to additional Windows 11 handhelds via the Windows Insider Preview — most notably the MSI Claw — and exposing the path that will let more OEMs ship a handheld experience that looks and behaves more like a console than a traditional Windows desktop. Background Microsoft built the Xbox Full Screen Experience as a session posture layered on...