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Microsoft’s software for macOS has quietly matured from rough ports into a first‑class, often native experience — and for Mac users who need cross‑platform muscle, that matters. What started as Word and Excel running in compatibility mode is now a full productivity ecosystem: Microsoft 365 on macOS supports system Dark Mode, Continuity Camera and other macOS features; OneDrive tightly integrates into Finder with Files On‑Demand; OneNote and Outlook offer robust cross‑device sync; Edge brings...

Microsoft’s update cadence for Windows 11 may be quietly shifting again: a Known Issue Rollback (KIR) connected to the October 2025 Windows 10 cumulative update has surfaced internal metadata that appears to reference a Windows 11 build labeled “version 26H1”, and community reporting links that trace to Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon X2 family and a codename in Microsoft’s internal flight branches. Background / Overview Microsoft moved Windows 11 from a semiannual feature-update cadence to a...

Microsoft Flight Simulator is the rare piece of software that can make a desk-bound user feel the unmistakable hush and throttle of a real cockpit — and yet, in recent years, the franchise has also become a case study in how modern simulation depends as much on cloud infrastructure, live data, and continuous service design as it does on aerodynamics and pixel-perfect scenery. Background Microsoft’s Flight Simulator franchise stretches back to the early 1980s and has evolved from pixelated...

Amazon Renewed marketplaces were quietly listing dozens of refurbished PCs that cannot be upgraded to Windows 11 — a problem Techlicious exposed that forced Amazon to remove listings but left a larger question about how refurbished-device marketplaces police compatibility and protect buyers. The story is straightforward and urgent: Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and many low-cost Renewed listings were for machines that lack the hardware baseline...

Microsoft has pushed a fresh Canary‑channel flight — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27982 — that quietly advances three user-facing experiences (lock‑screen widgets, a redesigned Widgets board with multiple dashboards, and a top‑of‑screen drag tray for sharing) while delivering a small but meaningful set of stability fixes and a couple of noteworthy regressions still under investigation. Background Canary‑channel builds are the earliest public preview of Windows platform work, intended for...

Windows ships with a tidy, low‑noise instrument for spotting the kinds of crashes and driver problems that quietly erode a PC’s day‑to‑day reliability: the built‑in Reliability Monitor. It runs without fanfare, produces a simple 1–10 stability score, and surfaces application crashes, Windows failures, installation events and other markers you can act on — often faster and less painfully than digging through raw Event Viewer logs. This piece examines what Reliability Monitor actually does...

Three decades after it first landed on desktops, Windows 95 has found a second life inside modern browsers — booting, running classic apps, and serving nostalgia — but the browser-based resurrection carries the same practical and legal risks as the original OS, plus a few new ones unique to web emulation. Background / Overview Windows 95 is one of the most consequential consumer operating systems Microsoft ever shipped. It was released to retail on August 24, 1995, introduced the Start menu...

Best Buy has quietly dropped the price on select Surface Pro models—most notably a Snapdragon X Plus–powered Surface Pro variant—bringing an attention‑grabbing early Black Friday price down to roughly $699.99 and re‑igniting frantic comparison shopping across outlets and forums. This isn’t just another markdown: it’s a rapid re‑evaluation of the value proposition for Microsoft’s Copilot+ Surface line, especially for buyers who want an ultra‑portable 2‑in‑1 that also claims meaningful...

I turned my Ubuntu 24 desktop into something that looks and feels remarkably like Windows 11 — and the result is more useful than a simple gimmick. What started as a cosmetic experiment (themes, icons, a centered taskbar and a Start‑style menu) quickly revealed a practical middle ground: the visual familiarity of Windows 11 combined with the speed, flexibility and privacy of a modern Ubuntu installation. This walkthrough and analysis pulls the XDA‑style how‑to into sharper technical focus...

Microsoft has confirmed a display bug in Windows 10 that is incorrectly warning some users their systems “have reached the end of support,” even when those devices are still eligible for Extended Security Updates (ESU) or are running supported Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) releases. The false alert has caused confusion and concern because it appears in Windows Update and explicitly claims, “Your device is no longer receiving security updates,” a statement that — in many reported cases —...

Florida Crystals Corporation’s expanded agreement with Celonis marks a decisive step in marrying process intelligence with enterprise AI, setting the sugar producer on a path from tactical process improvement to an enterprise-wide AI orchestration strategy that touches finance, procurement, supply chain, and plant maintenance. Background / Overview Florida Crystals Corporation (FCC), a large integrated cane sugar producer with extensive agricultural and milling operations in South Florida...

Seriun’s sell-out “Foundations for AI Success” at Crow Wood Hotel signalled a pragmatic, region-first approach to AI adoption that put governance, culture and stepwise pilots ahead of hype — and it offered Lancashire businesses a clear playbook for turning curiosity about generative AI into controlled, measurable change. The day-long launch of Seriun Intelligence, led by Seriun Directors Mark Edwards and Richard Lee, combined practical demonstrations (including Microsoft Copilot and Copilot...

Microsoft has turned Copilot from a helpful assistant into a builder: starting this week the Microsoft 365 Copilot pane can now generate working, shareable apps, build multi‑step automations, and scaffold lightweight AI agents from ordinary natural‑language prompts — all inside your tenant and without writing a line of code. Background / Overview Microsoft’s push to make generative AI a first‑class tool for everyday knowledge work has been steady: Copilot began as an assistant that...

A misleading “Your version of Windows has reached the end of support” banner began appearing in Settings > Windows Update on a subset of Windows 10 PCs after the October cumulative update, alarming administrators and home users even though many of those machines remain entitled to security updates through Extended Security Updates (ESU) or are running supported LTSC/IoT Enterprise builds; Microsoft has acknowledged the display error and delivered a two-track remediation (a cloud...

Microsoft’s November Game Pass cadence opens with a heavy hitter and a handful of sharply contrasting indies: Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will arrive as a day‑one Xbox Game Pass release on November 14 across Cloud, Console, and PC, while an eclectic lineup that includes Dead Static Drive (November 5) and cozy critter‑adventures joins the service in early November. The first wave of November additions delivers blockbuster spectacle and boutique creativity side by side — but it also surfaces the...

Microsoft’s “create confidently with AI” pitch for Copilot and Designer distills a simple idea: anyone can turn a brief sentence into a usable image, and Microsoft wants that first step to be fast, safe, and integrated into the apps people already use. The company positions Copilot as an approachable on‑ramp for novices while folding richer imaging tools into Microsoft Designer, the Photos app, and Office workflows—promising low friction, iterative control, and tight integration with...

ADMANITY’s CEO Brian Gregory has announced the filing and public rollout of PRIMAL AI — an asserted, trademarked emotional persuasion layer and the commercial packaging of what the company calls its “Mother Algorithm” — a portable communication logic intended to make any large language model (LLM) deliver brand-level, conversion-focused messaging without retraining the base model. Background / Overview ADMANITY positions itself as a decade-plus research project that distilled advertising...

A recent emergency WSUS patch intended to close a critical remote‑code‑execution hole instead produced an unexpected outage in Microsoft’s restart‑free Hotpatch delivery for a small number of Windows Server 2025 instances — a servicing mishap that forced affected systems off the Hotpatch cadence for two months and sent administrators scrambling to choose between immediate security and zero‑downtime guarantees. Background / Overview Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a widely used...

Microsoft’s announcement that it will invest roughly $15.2 billion in the United Arab Emirates and has secured U.S. export approvals to deploy advanced NVIDIA GB300-class systems in-country marks a watershed moment in the global AI infrastructure race—one that reshapes where frontier AI compute lives, how hyperscalers manage export controls and national security constraints, and what IT leaders should expect when planning for cloud-native AI deployments. Background Microsoft’s investment...

Reddit users in the United States, India and several other countries were hit by a widespread outage on November 4, 2025, leaving tens of thousands unable to load feeds, post or even log in—an interruption the company said it had identified and was actively fixing while the incident renewed focus on how DNS and cloud control‑plane dependencies can amplify a single failure into a multi‑region disruption. Background The November 4 outage echoed a string of high‑profile cloud incidents this...