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Microsoft has quietly answered one of the longest-running user complaints about Windows 11 by rebuilding the Start menu into a single, scrollable launcher with new viewing modes, explicit controls for recommendations, and tighter Phone Link integration — and you can get it now via an optional October preview or, if you accept the risk, by using community tools to flip the feature immediately. Background / Overview Windows’ Start menu has been the emotional center of the desktop for decades...

Microsoft's Mixed Reality Link has left preview and entered general availability for Meta Quest headsets, turning Quest 3 and Quest 3S into capable, portable Windows workstations that can host multiple high‑resolution virtual monitors and connect to local Windows 11 PCs or managed Windows 365 Cloud PCs. Background Microsoft first introduced Mixed Reality Link as a public preview in December 2024, aiming to stream a Windows desktop into mixed‑reality headsets and test reliability, latency...

Microsoft has quietly added a long‑requested convenience to Windows 11: a built‑in Shared Audio (preview) feature that can stream the same audio feed to two Bluetooth headphones or other LE Audio receivers at once, powered by Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio and rolling out to Windows Insiders on select Copilot+ PCs in Build 26220.7051. Background / Overview For years, Windows users who wanted to share sound from a laptop or desktop had to choose between awkward workarounds — wired splitters...

Microsoft’s optional preview update KB5067036 for Windows 11 has produced a stubborn Task Manager regression: clicking the window Close (X) button can make Task Manager disappear visually while one or more underlying taskmgr.exe processes remain running, and repeated open/close cycles may spawn additional “zombie” Task Manager instances that silently consume memory and occasional CPU until explicitly terminated or the system is rebooted. Background / Overview KB5067036 was shipped as an...

Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 capability that can stream the same audio to two Bluetooth devices at once, using Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio and surfaced as a Quick Settings tile in the Windows Insider Preview Build 26220.7051 (Dev and Beta channels). Background / Overview Bluetooth audio on PCs has long been constrained by legacy profile trade-offs that forced systems to choose between high‑quality playback and usable microphone support. The arrival of Bluetooth LE Audio — with...

OpenAI’s promotion of Pragya Misra to Head of Strategy & Global Affairs, India marks a decisive escalation in the company’s India play — and more broadly signals a strategic shift in how frontier AI firms operationalize international growth. The move consolidates product, policy, partnerships and ecosystem development under a single Indian leadership remit at a time when OpenAI is simultaneously localizing pricing, launching education programs, registering a local entity, and preparing a...

OpenAI’s new Company Knowledge for ChatGPT promises to turn the chat window into a single-pane, evidence-anchored internal search and synthesis tool that can pull from Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, GitHub and a growing roster of enterprise systems—available now to ChatGPT Business, Enterprise and Edu workspaces. Background / Overview Company Knowledge is OpenAI’s latest enterprise push: a workspace-level capability that lets ChatGPT query connected corporate applications, synthesize...

The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has imposed a penalty of ₹8 lakh each on two high‑profile UPSC coaching institutes — Dikshant IAS and Abhimanu IAS — after finding that both ran misleading advertisements and engaged in unfair trade practices by using candidates’ names and photographs without clear consent and by publishing unsubstantiated success‑claims that distorted the institutes’ contribution to those results. Background The CCPA’s action follows formal representations...

Apple has quietly opened the door to a dramatic reshaping of Siri, reportedly asking Google to build a bespoke version of its Gemini large language model to power a long-awaited, AI-first revamp of the voice assistant — a move that would mark one of the most consequential third‑party integrations in the history of Apple software engineering. Background Apple’s Siri has been an integral part of iOS since 2011, but the service has lagged behind competitors for several years as the AI landscape...

ADNOC’s announced expansion of its AI partnership with Microsoft marks a significant escalation in the energy sector’s race to embed advanced artificial intelligence across operations, infrastructure and the energy systems that will power global AI growth. Background ADNOC and Microsoft have worked together for several years, evolving from enterprise productivity tools to large-scale AI deployments. The latest agreement, unveiled at a high-profile energy and AI gathering in Abu Dhabi, brings...

A public proof‑of‑concept called EDR‑Redir V2 can redirect Windows EDR product folders to attacker‑controlled locations by abusing Windows’ new bind link and cloud filter APIs, allowing DLL hijacking and other local evasion techniques — a demonstration that reportedly blinded Windows Defender on Windows 11 and that security teams must treat as a high‑priority detection and hardening problem. Background / Overview Windows 11 introduced a new Bind Link API and the Bind Filter driver...

Microsoft’s October 28, 2025 preview cumulative—KB5067036 (OS Builds 26200.7019 for 25H2 and 26100.7019 for 24H2)—has started landing for Windows 11 devices and brings a dense mix of visible shell changes, on‑device and cloud‑assisted AI actions, accessibility improvements, and a broad set of quality fixes; the package is being distributed as an optional Release Preview update and will be exposed gradually to devices via server‑side gating and hardware/license checks. Background / Overview...

Piyush Pandey’s death has produced not just tributes but a formal act of institutional memory: Ogilvy India has announced that it will retire the title of Chief Advisor as a lasting tribute to the creative leader who shaped modern Indian advertising, and the agency plans a global commemorative volume to preserve his body of work. Background / Overview Piyush Pandey’s career embodied a dramatic shift in Indian advertising — from English-speaking, urban-centric messaging to vernacular...

Microsoft’s latest Insider cumulative — delivered as Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7051 (KB5067115) — places a permissioned, multimodal Copilot directly on the taskbar and expands a console-style Full Screen Experience (FSE) for handheld Windows devices, while rolling out a handful of device-gated experiments such as Bluetooth LE Shared Audio and targeted quality improvements for Windows on Arm. Background Microsoft has steadily redesigned Windows around Copilot and selective...

Microsoft quietly published two targeted dynamic updates — KB5068516 (Setup Dynamic Update) and KB5067040 (Safe OS / WinRE Dynamic Update) — for Windows 11 (versions 24H2 and 25H2) and Windows Server 2025, delivering refreshed setup binaries and an updated Windows Recovery Environment intended primarily for image hardening and recovery reliability. Background / Overview Dynamic updates are a surgical servicing mechanism Microsoft uses to refresh only the files that Windows Setup and the...

MTN has migrated its Enterprise Value Analytics (EVA) platform to Microsoft Azure, unveiling a cloud-native EVA 3.0 that the operator says now runs on Azure Databricks, is protected by Microsoft Defender, and processes roughly 22 billion records per day across more than 800 analytics workflows fed by over 1,700 data sources — a modernisation MTN and partners describe as the largest telco cloud implementation in the Middle East and Africa and a blueprint for Group-wide data modernisation...

Microsoft’s decision to end free support for Windows 10 has set off a ripple of practical, environmental and economic effects — and experts warn the most visible of those is a likely surge in electronic waste that could be worth billions in recoverable metals even as it threatens pollution and worker health if handled badly. Background Microsoft formally ended mainstream, free support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, a move that removes routine security patches, feature updates and...

Microsoft has quietly repaired one of Windows’ quietly maddening UX bugs: the long-running “Update and shut down” option — which often installed updates only to leave machines powered on instead of finishing with a true shutdown — now behaves as labeled in recent Windows 11 preview builds. Background / Overview For many Windows users the “Update and shut down” power-menu option is meant to be a convenience: pick it, let Windows apply pending patches during the shutdown sequence, and come...

Microsoft has quietly corrected one of Windows’ most persistent little indignities: the “Update and shut down” option — the menu item millions of users have trusted to install updates and power the PC off — is now behaving as labeled in the latest preview releases after years of intermittent failures that left machines powered on instead of off. Background: the decade‑long annoyance in plain terms For many Windows users the power menu is simple: choose “Update and shut down” to let Windows...

Alibaba Cloud’s pivot toward an AI‑first platform feels less like a copy of Amazon Web Services and more like a deliberate alignment with Google Cloud’s developer‑ and data‑centric playbook, and that distinction matters for customers, partners, and investors alike. Momentum Works’ recent analysis argues that Alibaba is learning from Google Cloud’s strengths — high‑quality ML tooling, open models, and tight data‑to‑model integrations — rather than AWS’s infrastructure‑first...