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AMD’s brief documentation slip over Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 touched off an outsized panic — but the facts are clearer and more nuanced: AMD’s Adrenalin driver packaging and installer continue to support Windows 10 in practice, even as AMD shifts its public documentation and engineering focus to Windows 11 after Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end-of-support milestone. Background / Overview Windows 10 reached its formal end of support on October 14, 2025, a calendar milestone that stopped...

In a revelation that reframes the origin story of one of modern India’s most recognisable election lines, Union Minister Piyush Goyal says the now‑iconic slogan “Abki Baar Modi Sarkar” nearly never existed after advertising legend Piyush Pandey initially declined to work on the campaign — a refusal that, according to Goyal, followed a seven‑hour meeting and was reversed only when Pandey called back the next morning to say, “Yeh desh ki zaroorat hai.” Background: the slogan, the man and a...

A veteran tinkerer has reduced a running copy of Windows 7 to a mere 69 megabytes on disk — a headline‑grabbing proof of concept that boots to a desktop but deliberately strips nearly everything that makes Windows usable, leaving a minimal kernel+shell that exists to teach, provoke, and expose the boundary between what an operating system needs to boot and what it needs to be useful. Background / Overview The recent Tiny7 stunt continues a long running hobbyist tradition: pushing mainstream...

The internet’s backbone hiccuped in late October, and the resulting cascade of outages — most notably a major Microsoft Azure interruption on October 29 and a preceding AWS incident in mid‑October — reopened a crucial conversation for Windows administrators and enterprise architects: single‑vendor cloud dependence is a systemic risk that must be engineered away, not accepted as inevitable. Background / Overview The October 29 Microsoft incident began when an inadvertent configuration change...

Microsoft is previewing a Bluetooth audio sharing feature in Windows 11 that can stream the same audio to two Bluetooth LE Audio devices at once — effectively letting a laptop play audio into two pairs of headphones, two earbuds, two speakers, or even two hearing‑aid receivers simultaneously. Background Bluetooth audio has evolved rapidly from the days of single-stream A2DP and SBC codec limitations. The new generation — Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio, led by the Bluetooth SIG and...

Microsoft’s October preview for Windows 11 (KB5067036) has introduced a puzzling regression: closing Task Manager with the window Close (X) button sometimes does not terminate taskmgr.exe, leaving behind “ghost” Task Manager processes that accumulate with each reopen and can degrade system performance on affected PCs. Background Microsoft released the optional preview update identified as KB5067036 on October 28, 2025, delivering OS builds 26200.7019 and 26100.7019 for Windows 11 versions...

Piyush Goyal’s recent revelation — that the now‑ubiquitous 2014 election slogan “Abki Baar Modi Sarkar” almost never existed because advertising legend Piyush Pandey initially declined to work on the campaign — reframes a familiar story about political branding into a moment of human hesitation, principle and persuasion that helped shape modern Indian political communications. The anecdote, reported by Storyboard18, says Goyal spent seven hours convincing Pandey, who initially refused on...

The United Arab Emirates has vaulted to the top of global rankings for workplace AI adoption after a new Microsoft analysis found that more than 1.2 billion people worldwide now use artificial intelligence — making AI the fastest‑adopted technology in human history — and that the UAE leads the pack with roughly 59.4% of its working‑age population using AI tools daily. This combination of scale and concentration — broad global diffusion paired with deep national penetration in a handful of...

Websites and services around the world that rely on Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure recovered after a high‑profile outage on October 29, 2025, which left high‑traffic sites — including airline check‑in pages, major UK banks, large retailers and gaming services — intermittently unreachable for hours. Microsoft identified an issue in its Azure Front Door (AFD) edge routing and networking layer, attributed to an inadvertent configuration change, and reverted to a previously working...

The field of conversational AI has moved from a single-name conversation to a crowded, capability-driven marketplace where multimodality, ecosystem integration, data governance, and cost are the clearest differentiators — and a new generation of chatbots is actively competing with ChatGPT for users, developers, and enterprise adoption. Analytics Insight’s roundup of the leading challengers captures that shift, noting that rivals such as Google Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, Microsoft Copilot...

Microsoft has quietly expanded the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) to include MSI’s Claw family, and owners who don’t mind Insider Preview software can now boot their Claw into a console‑style, controller‑first launcher by updating to the right Windows 11 preview build and enabling the feature in Settings. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Full Screen Experience (FSE) is a Windows 11 mode designed specifically for handheld gaming PCs. Rather than replace Windows, FSE layers a console‑like...

Alix Earle’s recent shout-out for Microsoft Copilot as her “secret weapon” for organizing a friend reunion in Los Angeles has done more than prompt applause from her followers — it underlines a wider shift in how mainstream consumers, creators, and brands are positioning conversational AI as a friction‑killer for everyday tasks like group travel planning. The lifestyle influencer’s anecdote — that she used a Copilot Group Chat to pull flight times, suggest a lounge‑vibe dinner, generate...

Microsoft’s consumer support for Windows 10 officially ended on October 14, 2025, and that change has immediate, practical consequences for billions of devices worldwide — but it’s not the abrupt “turn your PC off forever” scenario some headlines suggested. What changes, what stays, and what you should do next all depend on the choices you make in the coming weeks and months. Background / Overview Microsoft set a clear deadline: Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025. After...

Changing the Microsoft account on a Windows 11 PC is a deceptively simple task that touches sign‑in identity, cloud sync, device security, and — in some Windows builds — the initial setup behavior of the operating system itself. Background / Overview Windows 11 supports two primary local sign‑in models: a Microsoft account (MSA) — an email‑based identity that ties your device to OneDrive, Microsoft Store purchases, and cloud sync — and a local account, which exists only on the device and...

Dell’s new 14-inch convertible has arrived at an opportune moment: the Dell 14 Plus 2‑in‑1 is surfacing as a practical, well‑priced Copilot+ convertible that could legitimately climb to the top of Canada’s hybrid laptop segment — but the claim that it will become a “top seller” needs to be treated as early-market optimism rather than established fact. Background / Overview The Dell 14 Plus 2‑in‑1 is a mid‑range convertible from Dell’s newly simplified product family designed to deliver...

In a fast-moving episode that reshapes the European cloud competition narrative, the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) — through its European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) — has signalled a turning point: Microsoft has been moved out of the amber category after delivering a set of commercially equivalent licensing concessions to CISPE members, while Broadcom has been flagged again with a critical red assessment and is facing a formal legal challenge seeking the...

Microsoft has quietly published KB5070349 — an Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE) update for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 (and Windows Server 2025) — a targeted, installer‑time package that modifies the initial setup flow and the files that drive the first‑boot UI. Background OOBE updates are a specialized class of Windows packages that run only during the first‑time setup (the Out‑of‑Box Experience) when a device has an active internet connection. They are not delivered like typical...

Dell’s convertible ambitions for the 14‑inch market have graduated from rumor into reality: the Dell 14 Plus 2‑in‑1 is listed on Dell’s regional storefronts and major retailers with Copilot+ AI readiness, Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen AI options, integrated Intel Arc or Radeon graphics, Wi‑Fi 7 and modern port sets, putting a feature-rich convertible squarely into the mid‑to‑premium segment customers in the UK and beyond can actually buy today. Background / Overview Dell reorganized its...

Microsoft quietly issued two targeted dynamic updates for Windows 11 — KB5068516 (Setup Dynamic Update) and KB5067040 (Safe OS / WinRE Dynamic Update) — aimed squarely at improving the setup binaries used during feature upgrades and the Windows Recovery Environment used for Reset, cloud reinstall and Automatic Repair on Windows 11 24H2, 25H2 and Windows Server 2025. Overview Microsoft’s October 28, 2025 releases are small, narrowly scoped packages intended for image hardening rather than...

After a fresh Windows install you should turn off a handful of defaults that drain battery, chew CPU cycles, clutter the interface, and quietly share extra diagnostics — doing so will usually make a laptop feel faster, extend battery life, and reduce telemetry without breaking core functionality. Background Windows ships with numerous convenience and discovery features enabled by default: telemetry tiers, Start menu recommendations, background app permissions, web‑driven search highlights...