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Samsung’s move to bring its long-running mobile browser to Windows marks a clear shift in how the company intends to weave its Galaxy ecosystem into everyday desktop computing, but the debut arrives with the predictable trade-offs of early-stage software: smart continuity and on-device convenience on one hand, and privacy, performance, and platform strategy questions on the other. Background Samsung Internet has been a quiet success on Android and Galaxy devices for more than a decade...

A surprising and disruptive regression in Microsoft’s October 28, 2025 optional preview update is leaving multiple copies of Task Manager running in memory after users close the window — a glitch that can quietly consume RAM and CPU and that so far has required manual containment rather than a vendor patch. Background / Overview Microsoft published the non‑security preview update KB5067036 (OS builds 26200.7019 and 26100.7019) on October 28, 2025. The package bundles a redesigned Start menu...

Microsoft’s latest Visual Studio update pushes GitHub Copilot from a context-aware helper to a more autonomous teammate by adding long‑lived project memories, automated multi‑step planning, and support for Anthropic’s newest Claude models — moves that speed common developer workflows but also raise nontrivial governance, security, and operational questions for teams adopting AI in production development environments. Background Visual Studio has been steadily evolving from a traditional...

Google and Reliance’s surprise tie-up to give millions of Reliance Jio subscribers free access to Google’s premium AI suite is not a small marketing stunt — it is a deliberate, high‑stakes move to accelerate AI adoption across India by bundling advanced generative AI, large‑context models, and significant cloud storage into a telecom distribution channel. The program, which begins with an 18‑month complimentary subscription to Google’s AI Pro offering for eligible Jio users, promises access...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update moves beyond answering questions to actually building the tools employees need: App Builder and Workflows — two new conversational agents inside Microsoft 365 Copilot that let business users create apps, dashboards, and multi-step automations in plain English, with an embedded, lightweight Copilot Studio for quick agent authoring. Background / Overview Since Copilot’s introduction, Microsoft has steadily expanded its role from a drafting and summarization...

The era when AI assistants lived in the cloud and answered our questions from distant data centers is rapidly giving way to an architecture that puts meaningful intelligence on the device itself — smaller models, specialized chips, and new privacy trade-offs are turning assistants from web tools into constantly present, low-latency helpers on phones, tablets, and PCs. This shift — traced from the ChatGPT moment to the launch and spread of on‑device models like Google’s Gemini Nano — matters...

MTN’s move to Azure for its Enterprise Value Analytics platform marks a watershed moment for telco cloud adoption in Africa: the operator says EVA 3.0 has been re‑engineered on Microsoft Azure (using Azure Databricks and Microsoft security tooling) to deliver faster analytics, earlier operational visibility and the scale to ingest extremely large daily volumes of telemetry — a blueprint MTN is positioning as a continent‑wide model for data‑driven telco transformation. Background The...

MTN’s migration of its Enterprise Value Analytics (EVA) platform to Microsoft Azure represents a decisive step in telco cloud modernisation: a move that promises faster analytics, broader scale, and tighter integration of AI into customer and operational workflows, while also resurfacing familiar telco concerns about vendor lock‑in, data governance, and the complexity of at‑scale cloud operations. Background / Overview MTN and Microsoft announced a strategic alliance in 2022 that set the...

Microsoft’s calendar cut‑off for Windows 10 arrived on October 14, 2025, and with it a stark choice for every organisation still running the decade‑old OS: buy time with paid Extended Security Updates, execute a fast — and often expensive — device refresh, or accept growing security, compliance and operational risk. Background / Overview Windows 10’s end of mainstream support is a hard lifecycle boundary: after October 14, 2025 Microsoft stopped shipping routine security patches, feature...

When the tech rumor mill threw a July release date into the mix for Windows 10, it set off the familiar cycle: excitement, cautious skepticism, and a flood of headlines. The eTeknix piece that circulated those claims pulled together bits from earlier briefings and third‑party sources to suggest Microsoft might ship Windows 10 as early as July — a possibility that would have accelerated OEM roll‑outs and given eager users immediate access to new features like DirectX 12. That rumor echoed...

Windows hides a lot of power behind the Services console — and while trimming nonessential services can sometimes shave a little resource use, there are a set of critical Windows services you should never disable because doing so breaks security, networking, hardware, or basic OS integrity. Background Windows runs dozens of long-lived background processes called services. Many are convenience features (indexing, peer update distribution, diagnostic telemetry) and can be disabled on carefully...

Germany’s federal digital authority has admitted it cannot say how many federal workstations still run Windows 10, who will pay for the Windows 11 migration, or when that migration will finish — a stark symptom of deeper breakdowns in inventory, license management, and IT governance across the federal administration. The accelerated end-of-support timetable set by Microsoft has turned a long‑running administrative weakness into an urgent security and budget problem: missing device...

The end of free, mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 turns a decade‑old desktop platform into an immediate operational and security challenge for organisations — but treated correctly it can also be the catalyst for a disciplined, cost‑effective modernisation of end‑user computing that improves security, reduces long‑term cost, and positions teams to benefit from Windows 11’s new productivity and on‑device AI capabilities. Background Microsoft formally ended mainstream...

YouTube has removed a pair of Windows 11 how‑to videos from the CyberCPU Tech channel — one showing how to complete Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) setup with a local account, the other outlining ways to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware — and the platform justified the removals by citing its “Harmful or Dangerous Content” policy, language that creators and the wider Windows community say plainly does not match the real-world risks of software installation guides. Overview Microsoft’s...

Microsoft has quietly moved Copilot from being a research assistant to an active operator: the Researcher agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot can now spin up a temporary, sandboxed cloud PC to use a computer on your behalf — opening browsers, entering credentials via a secure handover, clicking buttons, running terminal commands and even executing short code — all while providing a visible “chain of thought” so humans can watch, pause, or take control. This capability, marketed internally and in...

Microsoft’s October 2025 update to Microsoft Teams stitches several AI-driven innovations and communications refinements into a single release wave — from audio recaps and Copilot-powered file summaries to unified mobile calling and richer Teams Rooms controls — delivering tangible productivity upgrades while raising predictable governance and licensing questions for IT teams. Background Microsoft has been accelerating the integration of Copilot and generative-AI across Microsoft 365 and...

Suncorp’s move from experimentation to “full‑scale delivery” of agentic AI — with a cross‑functional execution roadmap, internal agent platform and live customer pilots — is a sober, deliberate step that crystallises how a large, regulated insurer intends to convert the promise of autonomous agents into measurable operational value while building governance, skilling and platform controls around it. Background Suncorp’s CIO Adam Bennett framed the development as an “acceleration of...

HCLSoftware’s newly announced global collaboration with Microsoft promises to package HCL’s Xperience‑Data‑Operations (XDO) blueprint as Azure‑hosted, marketplace‑transactable solutions — a move that aims to accelerate AI‑led enterprise transformation by combining HCL’s enterprise product portfolio with Microsoft Azure’s data, AI and security infrastructure. Background / Overview HCLSoftware frames XDO as a practical blueprint that fuses three enterprise imperatives: Experience (X), Data (D)...

Microsoft’s global cloud fabric stumbled on October 29, 2025, when a configuration error in Azure Front Door triggered DNS and routing failures that knocked Microsoft 365 (Office 365), Xbox Live and Minecraft sign‑in systems, the Azure Portal and thousands of downstream customer sites offline — an incident that produced a visible spike in outage reports and forced Microsoft to roll back a problematic change while failing management traffic away from the affected edge. Background / Overview...

Microsoft engineers pushed a rollback and other mitigations after a global Azure outage tied to an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD), restoring most services within hours but leaving a clear trail of operational and architectural questions for enterprises that rely on a single cloud provider’s control plane. Background The outage began in the early afternoon UTC on October 29, 2025, when monitoring systems and public outage trackers registered a sudden spike in DNS...