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Microsoft has quietly reversed one of its newest Windows Update UI experiments: after removing month‑and‑year prefixes from update titles and provoking an immediate backlash from IT administrators, the company confirmed it will restore the date (month and year) to update titles shown in Settings and Update history. Background: what changed and why Microsoft tried it In late October, Microsoft introduced a simplified naming scheme for many update types — monthly security updates, preview...

ChatGPT’s dominance in Ireland — a near‑monopoly in referral telemetry — and the parallel, fast‑moving story of people turning conversational AI into a form of everyday therapy have become two of the defining tech narratives of 2025. New public telemetry shows ChatGPT is responsible for roughly four‑in‑five chatbot‑to‑website referrals worldwide and more than eight‑in‑ten in Ireland, while a separate and rapidly expanding body of clinical and technical literature documents both promising...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday left a small but vocal swath of Windows administrators staring at a blunt, alarming notice in Settings: “Your version of Windows has reached the end of support,” even on machines that remained legitimately entitled to security updates — including systems in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program and Long‑Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) builds that Microsoft documents as supported through 2027 or later. Background / Overview Windows 10’s mainstream...

Oakland’s new AI pilot solicitation signals a decisive shift from internal policy-setting to real-world experimentation, offering no-cost, 16-week pilots to vendors and researchers on a slate of 30 city‑identified use cases aimed at improving access, efficiency, and transparency across municipal services. The announcement — framed by the cross-departmental AI Working Group (AIWG) and anchored to an explicit AI Equity Statement and automated data‑classification protections — promises rapid...

Microsoft’s decision to place a new Azure cloud region — Southeast Asia 3 — in Johor Bahru signals a deliberate push to densify AI‑ready infrastructure in Southeast Asia and to lock in lower‑latency, in‑country compute for regulated and AI‑heavy workloads. Background / Overview Microsoft first announced a major multi‑year investment in Malaysia in 2024 and delivered the Malaysia West cloud region (Greater Kuala Lumpur) earlier in 2025 as its initial in‑country footprint. The new Johor Bahru...

Samsung has opened the door between Galaxy phones and Windows PCs: the company launched a region‑gated beta of Samsung Internet for PC on October 30, 2025, bringing cross‑device sync for bookmarks, history and (promised) passwords, plus built‑in Galaxy AI features such as Browsing Assist, to Windows 11 and Windows 10 (version 1809 and later) machines in an initial rollout limited to the United States and South Korea. Background / Overview Samsung Internet began as a mobile‑first browser...

For the first time in years of user grumbling and forum posts, the Start menu’s long‑promised “Update and shut down” command finally does what it says: install pending updates and then power off the PC. Microsoft documented the correction in Insider release notes and packaged the same servicing change into the October 28, 2025 optional preview cumulative update (KB5067036), which produces OS builds 26200.7019 for Windows 11 25H2 and 26100.7019 for 24H2. Background / Overview For many users...

A recent optional preview update for Windows 11 is producing a frustrating and easily reproducible regression: closing Task Manager with the window “X” can leave the underlying taskmgr.exe process running, and each reopen spawns a new visible Task Manager instance while earlier instances persist invisibly in the background — producing duplicate, accumulating processes that can consume memory, CPU cycles, and battery over time. Background Microsoft released the October 28, 2025 non‑security...

Microsoft has begun previewing a built‑in Windows 11 capability that can stream the same audio feed to two Bluetooth devices at once, using Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio to enable simultaneous listening on two pairs of headphones, earbuds, speakers, or even hearing aids from a single PC. Background Bluetooth LE Audio — the modern Bluetooth audio architecture built around the LC3 codec and the Auracast broadcast model — was designed to address long‑standing limitations of classic Bluetooth...

Sky has quietly decided to pull the plug on Sky Live: the Kinect-esque camera that turned Sky Glass into a motion-tracking fitness coach, a motion-controlled games console, a Zoom-capable TV and a “watch together” social screen will stop functioning on 4 December 2025, and Sky says anyone who bought one — either outright or on monthly payments — will receive a refund. The company is also offering purchasers a complimentary 12‑month Mvmnt subscription in the app’s non‑motion‑tracking form...

Sandeep Walunj, the Group Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Director of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd (MOFSL), has stepped down from his role, with his last working day reported as October 31, 2025 — ending an 18‑month tenure that included a high‑profile brand refresh and intensified digital marketing efforts. Background Sandeep Walunj was appointed Group Chief Marketing Officer of Motilal Oswal Financial Services on April 4, 2024, joining the storied Indian financial-services...

Microsoft has quietly reversed course on one of the more contentious UI experiments in Windows Update: after removing the long‑standing year‑and‑month prefix from update titles, the company says it will restore the YYYY‑MM date token to the visible update names in Settings and Update history. Background For decades Microsoft’s visible update titles in Settings → Windows Update and Update history included a verbose, catalog‑style string that gave immediate operational context — most notably a...

Microsoft Azure has pushed the limits of cloud inference performance: Microsoft reports an aggregated throughput of 1.1 million tokens per second from a single NVL72 rack running the new ND GB300 v6 virtual machines built on NVIDIA’s GB300 (Blackwell Ultra) hardware, a milestone that resets the practical ceiling for large-scale inference in public cloud. Background / Overview Microsoft’s ND GB300 v6 offering is the cloud-exposed packaging of NVIDIA’s GB300 NVL72 rack-scale system. Each NVL72...

Speccy puts a clear, no-nonsense snapshot of your PC in front of you within seconds — and on Windows 11 that simplicity can save time when you’re diagnosing temperature spikes, planning an upgrade, or preparing a support ticket. Background / Overview Speccy is a lightweight system-information utility originally developed by Piriform that collects and displays hardware and operating‑system details in a compact, readable interface. It reports everything from CPU model and per‑core temperatures...

Microsoft has quietly closed one of Windows’ most persistent little annoyances: the Start menu option labeled “Update and shut down” will now, in the scenarios Microsoft targeted, actually power the PC off instead of rebooting it — a fix that arrived first in Insider preview flights and was folded into the October 28, 2025 optional preview cumulative package (KB5067036). Background For many users the Start menu’s Update and shut down command is a simple convenience: apply pending Windows...

Microsoft’s October preview patch that finally fixed the long-running “Update and Shutdown” restart bug has introduced a surprising new regression: closing Task Manager with the window’s Close (X) button can leave behind live taskmgr.exe processes that accumulate in memory and may degrade performance. Background / Overview Microsoft published the optional preview cumulative update KB5067036 on October 28, 2025, shipping OS builds 26100.7019 and 26200.7019 for affected Windows 11 branches...

Microsoft has added built‑in passkey saving and cross‑device synchronization to Microsoft Edge’s Autofill (Microsoft Password Manager), enabling Windows desktop users to create, store and sync FIDO2/WebAuthn passkeys across Windows PCs signed into the same Microsoft Account — a change rolling out with Microsoft Edge 142 that folds cloud‑backed passkeys into Edge’s password‑management surface while preserving Windows Hello for local user verification. Background Passkeys are the standardized...

Microsoft has quietly opened the door for MSI Claw owners to run Microsoft's Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) on Windows 11 handhelds, rolling the feature out through the Windows Insider program and giving handheld gamers an opt‑in, console‑style launcher that aims to reduce background overhead and improve sustained gaming performance. Background Microsoft first introduced the Xbox Full Screen Experience as a handheld‑focused UI and runtime posture designed to make Windows 11 behave more...

If your screen suddenly flashes bright red, it feels like an emergency — but in many recent reports the culprit is not a dying monitor or failing GPU, it’s a software-side colour/rendering regression introduced by a Windows update and how Windows applies colour profiles and compositing. The immediate reaction — panic, unplugging cables, blaming hardware — is understandable. The safer, faster path is a short checklist of diagnostic steps, followed by measured fixes and an understanding of why...

Microsoft Teams is everywhere — installed, licensed, and often paid for at enterprise scale — yet many organizations still struggle to extract measurable business value from it. What started as a rapid chat-and-meetings rollout frequently stalls at day-to-day basics, leaving expensive licensing under‑utilized, integrated voice and contact‑center features untried, CRM and automation links under‑deployed, and AI capabilities like Copilot rarely harnessed. The result is a sharp adoption gap...