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Microsoft’s Azure cloud suffered a high‑impact outage on October 29, 2025, when a configuration error in Azure Front Door (AFD) — Microsoft’s global Layer‑7 edge and routing fabric — caused DNS and routing anomalies that temporarily knocked a broad range of Microsoft services and thousands of customer sites offline, including Xbox storefronts and downloads, Minecraft authentication and Realms, Microsoft 365 portals, and parts of the Azure management plane. Background / Overview Azure Front...

MTN says it has completed the cloud migration of its Enterprise Value Analytics platform to Microsoft Azure — a move the company and partners describe as the largest telco cloud implementation in the Middle East and Africa and a practical blueprint for telco cloud modernization across the continent. The revamped EVA 3.0 environment is reported to run on Azure Databricks, use Delta Lake semantics for data durability, and be protected by Microsoft Defender, processing roughly 22 billion...

Microsoft’s latest Insider cumulative — delivered as Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7051 (KB5067115) — lands as a compact but consequential update that places an opt‑in Ask Copilot entry directly on the taskbar, expands a console‑style Full Screen Experience (FSE) for handheld gaming PCs, and begins previewing Shared Audio using Bluetooth LE Audio on select Copilot+ hardware. Background / Overview Microsoft is continuing to fold Copilot deeper into the Windows shell, shifting the...

Microsoft’s long‑promised Start menu redesign arrived for mainstream Windows 11 users in the October 2025 non‑security preview (KB5067036), but the new single‑page Start surface and fresh layout options have arrived with a selection of odd regressions that are already frustrating testers and early adopters. The most visible issues reported so far range from newly installed apps and their Start‑menu folders not appearing until Explorer is restarted, to a one‑time “scroll to top” misbehavior...

You can indeed boot a working copy of Windows 95 inside a modern web browser — and the result is equal parts engineering neatness, digital preservation, and a cautionary tale about nostalgia versus practicality. Background Windows 95 was released to retail on August 24, 1995, and it represented a seismic shift in consumer PC usability: the Start menu, taskbar, long file names, and plug‑and‑play hardware support all became mainstream with that launch. This date and the product’s official...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 is quietly rolling out a small but significant preview called Shared audio (preview) that can stream the same Bluetooth audio feed to two separate headsets, earbuds, speakers, or hearing aids at once — a milestone built on Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio and surfaced to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels as a Quick Settings toggle on selected Copilot+ PCs. Background / Overview Bluetooth audio on PCs has long been hampered by a protocol-era compromise: the...

Wisenet’s SmartCam N1 is a competent indoor security camera with reliable facial recognition, local microSD recording and the sort of smart-assistant compatibility buyers expect — but its $150 asking price and the removal or monetization of cloud storage leave its value proposition unexpectedly thin compared with cheaper rivals. Background Wisenet’s SmartCam line began as a capable, midrange alternative to Nest-style indoor cameras: 1080p video, motion detection, two‑way audio, and companion...

Neudesic today unveiled a purpose-built Digital Workforce Management platform that promises to move enterprises from piecemeal agent pilots to a governed, Azure-native production environment for autonomous and semi‑autonomous AI agents. Background Azure AI Foundry emerged as Microsoft’s enterprise play for building, orchestrating, and running agentic applications — an “agent factory” that combines models, tools, observability, and governance into a single platform. Enterprises adopting...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview lands as a compact but consequential package: Build 26220.7051 (delivered as KB5067115) brings an opt‑in Ask Copilot taskbar entry that surfaces Copilot Vision and Copilot Voice straight from the taskbar, a preview of Shared Audio using Bluetooth LE Audio, and an expanded Full Screen Experience (FSE) targeted at handheld gaming PCs — all delivered under a matched Dev/Beta preview that opens a narrow window for channel switching. Background / Overview...

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Microsoft’s global outage that silenced storefronts, travel hubs and gaming portals on October 29 was traced to a control‑plane configuration error on Azure Front Door, and the affected websites were gradually returned to service after engineers halted rollouts, rolled back to a last‑known‑good state and rerouted traffic—an incident that again exposed the fragility of centralized cloud ingress and the real‑world consequences when a single edge fabric fails. Background In the late afternoon...

India’s data‑centre landscape has shifted from nascent to monumental over the past two years: global hyperscalers and domestic champions are committing tens of billions of dollars to build AI‑ready, gigawatt‑scale campuses, and that capital is already reshaping power, fibre and skills planning across multiple Indian states. New headline projects from AWS, Microsoft, Google, Meta (with Reliance), NTT, Yotta and CtrlS underscore a clear trend — India is now a primary battleground for the next...

Microsoft’s decision to put Halo on PlayStation — launching a full remake of Halo: Combat Evolved as Halo: Campaign Evolved on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC in 2026 — is the clearest signal yet that the old rules of console exclusivity are dissolving, and it has already ignited a mix of jubilation, strategic recalculation and cultural hand-wringing across the gaming community. Background / Overview For nearly a quarter-century, Halo served as Xbox’s flagship identity piece: a...

A recently discovered unofficial mirror hosting downloads of FlyOOBE — the community tool that evolved from the Flyby11 Windows 11 requirements bypass — has triggered an urgent developer warning and fresh debate about the risks of using third‑party installers to force unsupported machines onto Windows 11. The project's official release notes now carry a blunt SECURITY ALERT telling users to “DO NOT DOWNLOAD FROM FlyOOBE - FlyOOBE because the site is an unauthorised mirror that may host...

If you believe the single biggest security problem for Windows is the next malware strain or a clever phishing campaign, think again — the far more dangerous factor is the set of widely repeated security myths that lull users into bad habits and create predictable attack surfaces attackers love to exploit. Overview Windows security has improved dramatically over the last decade: built‑in protections such as Microsoft Defender, controlled folder access, Smart App Control, and the Windows...

Windows Hello has quietly moved from a novelty to a practical, everyday security layer for millions of Windows users — fast enough to feel effortless, secure enough that it actually changes how people behave at their desk, and flexible enough to underpin Microsoft’s broader push toward passwordless sign-in. Background / Overview Windows Hello debuted as part of Microsoft’s Windows 10 vision: a hardware-backed, biometric-first approach designed to make sign‑in faster and safer than passwords...

AI has quietly remade the data that matters most inside regulated businesses: everyday conversations with clients and partners have become structured, searchable, and actionable — and that transformation is forcing organisations to choose between innovation and oversight unless they adopt new governance models for messaging intelligence. Background / Overview LeapXpert has positioned itself at the intersection of that choice. The company’s communications platform — now extended with an AI...

Microsoft's cloud control plane faltered in a high‑visibility incident that knocked Xbox Live, Microsoft 365, Minecraft, and a raft of third‑party services offline for hours, leaving gamers and businesses scrambling while engineers rolled back an Azure Front Door configuration and rerouted traffic to restore service. Background / Overview On October 29, widespread reports and Microsoft's own status messages documented a significant outage that began in the early afternoon UTC and quickly...

Emotion-sensing artificial intelligence is closing the gap on human ability to read facial expressions and vocal cues: multiple commercial systems and recent academic benchmarks report real-world accuracies in the mid‑70s to low‑80s percent range, while controlled laboratory tests and human benchmarking still show people generally outperform AI on nuanced, context‑rich emotion understanding. Background Emotion-sensing AI — often called affective computing or emotional AI — refers to systems...

Seattle’s tech paradox landed on headlines last week when Amazon confirmed a major round of corporate reductions at the very moment the company — and the industry at large — is spending at scale on artificial intelligence infrastructure, raising hard questions about strategy, resilience, and whether this is the onset of a durable transformation or another over‑heated tech cycle. Amazon announced cuts affecting roughly 14,000 corporate roles, while regional reporting and analysts had earlier...