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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...

Support for Windows 10 ended on October 14, 2025, and that deadline is now the practical fulcrum driving enterprise decisions about security, compliance, device lifecycle and the next wave of end‑user computing modernisation. Background / Overview Microsoft’s official lifecycle calendar put a firm end date on routine servicing for Windows 10: October 14, 2025. After that date standard security updates, cumulative quality fixes and mainstream technical support for Windows 10 editions ceased...

If a recent Adrenalin driver note made you worry that AMD had quietly cut off Windows 10 support for Radeon GPUs, take a breath — the panic was born of a documentation change, not an abrupt engineering cutoff, but the episode is nevertheless an important warning that the Windows 10 era is entering its final, managed decline. Background / Overview The immediate trigger was AMD’s latest Adrenalin driver package (Adrenalin 25.10.2), published as a WHQL-recommended release on October 29, 2025...

A days‑long internet stunt has become a serious technical demonstration: a veteran Windows tinkerer known as Xeno released a bootable Windows 7 x86 image that measures just 69.0 MB on disk — a size so small it fits comfortably on a vintage floppy image several times over. The build boots to a desktop, but it has been pruned to the point that “virtually nothing can run” without additional system files; the project is best understood as a proof‑of‑concept that exposes what is and isn’t...

Windows 11’s Focus feature is the operating system’s native answer to the constant avalanche of pings, badges, and flashing icons that fragment attention—and it’s more than a simple “mute notifications” toggle. Focus ties system-level Do Not Disturb behavior to a visible timer in the Clock app, lets you customize which alerts (if any) can break through, and integrates with Microsoft To Do and Spotify so you can pair tasks and background audio with timed work blocks. Background Windows has...