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Samsung has pushed its long-running mobile browser onto Windows PCs with a region‑gated beta that brings cross‑device sync, built‑in Galaxy AI helpers such as Browsing Assist, and Samsung Pass credential integration to Windows 11 and Windows 10 machines in an initial rollout limited to the United States and South Korea. Background Samsung Internet began life as the default browser on Galaxy phones more than a decade ago and matured into a Chromium‑based alternative on Android and Tizen...

Microsoft has quietly started to push a major change to the Windows 11 taskbar: an opt‑in “Ask Copilot” search pill that blends the long‑standing Windows Search index with Copilot’s conversational, voice, and vision capabilities, arriving first to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels via Preview Build 26220.7051 (KB5067115). Background Windows Search began life as a lightweight indexer that let users find apps, files and settings quickly. Over the years Microsoft layered web...

Samsung’s long‑running mobile browser has finally stepped onto the desktop: Samsung has launched a region‑gated beta of Samsung Internet for PC, bringing cross‑device sync, Galaxy AI helpers (branded as Browsing Assist), and the company’s Smart Anti‑Tracking and Privacy Dashboard to Windows 10 (version 1809+) and Windows 11 machines in an initial rollout limited to the United States and South Korea. The beta — announced on October 30, 2025 — ships with builds for both x86/x64 and ARM Windows...

The construction industry is finally moving beyond canned promises and pilots: a new crop of vendor–hyperscaler partnerships and in‑house platform builds is turning generative and agentic AI into workflow‑embedded tools for estimators, project controllers, procurement teams and on‑site crews—yet the practical value will depend on governance, edge resilience and contractual clarity more than raw model capability. Background / Overview The past 18 months have seen two parallel trends converge...

Photoshop and Illustrator still dominate professional workflows, but if you want to start designing, editing, or creating pixel art on Windows this weekend without paying Adobe’s subscription fees, there are excellent free and low-cost alternatives that cover almost every creative need — from full raster editing to sprite sheets and template-driven social assets. Try GIMP for Photoshop‑style image work, Piskel for fast pixel art and sprites, and Canva for template-driven design and quick...

Burning a CD on Windows 11 is still a straightforward, dependable option for creating a physical backup, sharing music with older players, or archiving small, important data — and you can do it using only the operating system’s built‑in tools or with a well‑chosen third‑party app when you need advanced control. Background / Overview Optical media never disappeared entirely; it remains useful for niche tasks such as creating an audio disc for legacy car stereos, producing a secure offline...

HCLSoftware’s new collaboration with Microsoft aims to package the vendor’s Xperience‑Data‑Operations (XDO) blueprint as Azure‑hosted, marketplace‑transactable solutions—an effort designed to fast‑track AI‑powered digital transformation by unifying customer experience, data intelligence, and operational automation under a single, governed architecture. Background / Overview Enterprises today face three simultaneous pressures: rapidly rising customer expectations, sprawling legacy estates...

A widespread Microsoft Azure outage that began in the mid‑afternoon UTC on October 29, 2025, knocked key services — including Microsoft 365 web apps, Microsoft Teams, the Azure management portal, Xbox and several downstream customer sites — offline or into intermittent failure while engineers rolled back Azure Front Door to a previously validated configuration and worked DNS and routing convergence to restore normal service. Background / Overview The disruption centered on Azure Front Door...

Microsoft has quietly overhauled the way Windows 11 labels the updates you see in Settings and Update history, replacing long, catalogue-style titles with short, predictable names that lead with a clear classification (for example, Security Update or Preview Update) followed by the KB identifier and, where relevant, a compact build or component version token. This change is official, documented by Microsoft, and already rolling out to user-facing surfaces — a small but important usability...

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KPMG’s push to turn ERP systems from passive ledgers into proactive decision engines is no longer an abstract vision — it’s materializing in production pilots and packaged use cases built on Microsoft’s Copilot ecosystem, Dynamics 365, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Two compact but telling implementations — a Goods Received Not Invoiced (GRNI) Chaser and a supplier performance insight capability — illustrate how KPMG is composing Copilot Studio agents, ERP connectors, and external...

The AI-infrastructure race has moved from theory to trillion-dollar contracts: specialist GPU cloud vendor CoreWeave and hyperscale giant Microsoft are both doubling down on capacity, but they are playing very different games — one is a pure‑play, capital‑intensive operator with blockbuster customer contracts and heavy leverage; the other is a diversified platform company using Azure’s distribution, integrated software stack and deep pockets to turn AI demand into recurring enterprise...

AI tools can reclaim hours from your workweek when deployed with clear rules, minimal permissions, and a single-task focus — not as magic fixes but as deliberate productivity amplifiers that Indian professionals can adopt today. Background / Overview The surge of generative AI and workspace copilots has reshaped how professionals tackle email overload, meeting fatigue, content creation, and routine data work. Tools embedded inside Microsoft 365, standalone assistants like ChatGPT and Claude...

A sweeping interruption to Microsoft’s cloud fabric left millions scrambling on October 29 when a configuration error in Azure’s global edge fabric caused DNS and routing failures that knocked Microsoft 365, Xbox Live, Minecraft and the Azure Portal into partial or full outage for hours. Background / Overview Microsoft Azure is one of the world’s three hyperscale public clouds and hosts not only customer workloads but also many of Microsoft’s own SaaS control planes, including Microsoft 365...

Windows 11 users on recent preview builds are reporting a strange and persistent regression: closing Task Manager with the window “X” sometimes does not terminate taskmgr.exe, and each reopen can spawn another live Task Manager process — producing dozens of background taskmgr.exe instances that quietly consume memory and occasional CPU until explicitly killed. Background / Overview Microsoft released an optional preview cumulative update, identified as KB5067036, on October 28, 2025. The...

YouTube’s automated moderation engines have begun removing Windows 11 tutorials that demonstrate how to bypass setup restrictions — including guides for creating a local (offline) account during OOBE and for installing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware — and the takedowns are being justified with the platform’s “harmful or dangerous” policy language, a move that has provoked technical, legal, and community backlash. Background / Overview For several years Microsoft’s consumer Out‑Of‑Box...

Microsoft is quietly previewing a built‑in Windows 11 feature that can stream the same audio feed to two Bluetooth LE Audio devices at once — a practical, standards‑based step toward one‑to‑many wireless audio on the PC that’s currently rolling out to Windows Insiders on select Copilot+ systems. Background / Overview Microsoft’s new Shared audio (preview) surfaces as a Quick Settings control that lets a Windows 11 PC transmit a single synchronized audio stream to two paired Bluetooth Low...

Microsoft's PowerToys Command Palette is a quietly radical fix to a long-standing Windows problem: the default search and launcher experience is slow, noisy, and often gets in the way of productivity — and the case for folding Command Palette into Windows itself has never looked stronger. MakeUseOf’s recent write-up argues that Command Palette effectively renders Windows Search irrelevant for many users by delivering a faster, cleaner, and more extensible launcher; that assessment captures...

The optional October preview update KB5067036 can leave Task Manager running after you click the window “X,” and repeated open→close cycles may spawn additional background taskmgr.exe processes that accumulate memory and occasional CPU until you explicitly kill them or reboot — a reproducible but not universal regression that affects a subset of Windows 11 machines. Background Microsoft released the non‑security preview cumulative update identified as KB5067036 on October 28, 2025. The...

Alaska Air has hired Accenture to conduct a comprehensive audit of its IT systems after a cascading series of outages — including a global Microsoft Azure failure — forced the airline to ground flights, cancel hundreds of services, and leave tens of thousands of passengers stranded while the company and its investors reassess operational and financial risk. Background In late October 2025 a global outage affecting a major cloud provider’s edge and routing services disrupted a broad swath of...