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Windows 10 users should treat a resurfacing adware family called FileTour as more than an annoyance: it can silently weaponize your browser, steal CPU cycles to mine cryptocurrency, and persist across reboots in ways that make detection and removal tricky. Background FileTour is not a traditional one-off virus but a packaged adware/downloader that has been observed distributing a range of unwanted programs — from aggressive adware and browser extensions to in‑browser crypto‑miners and, in...

Satya Nadella’s shorthand—that the company’s Copilot Stack “orchestrates” the AI breakthrough—is less a marketing soundbite than a strategic thesis: Microsoft argues that the real advance isn’t a single model but the systems that bind compute, data, models and user-facing agents into reliable, auditable workflows. That framing—first picked up and summarized in recent coverage—positions Copilot as the orchestration layer that turns raw model capability into everyday enterprise outcomes...

Microsoft has quietly upgraded Copilot on Windows with a major usability shift: Vision now supports text-in, text-out, turning what began as a voice-first screen‑sharing experiment into a truly multimodal assistant that can see your apps and answer typed questions directly in the Copilot chat pane. The change is being distributed as an update to the Copilot app through the Microsoft Store (package version 1.25103.107 and higher) and is rolling out to Windows Insider channels in stages, with...

A sweeping configuration failure in Microsoft’s global edge fabric on October 29, 2025, left Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, Xbox Live, Minecraft, Microsoft Copilot and the Microsoft Store intermittently inaccessible for millions of users and caused hundreds of third‑party websites that rely on Azure Front Door to return gateway errors—an incident engineers traced to an inadvertent change in Azure Front Door that produced DNS and routing anomalies and forced Microsoft to roll back to a...

Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has publicly exposed a focused cyberespionage campaign — tracked as PassiveNeuron — that deliberately targets Internet‑facing Windows Server hosts in government, financial and industrial environments across Asia, Africa and Latin America, using a blend of bespoke implants and commodity tooling to establish durable, stealthy footholds. Background PassiveNeuron first came to light in 2024 and, after an apparent six‑month pause, resumed...

Microsoft’s cloud and productivity ecosystems suffered a high‑impact disruption on October 29, 2025, when an inadvertent configuration change inside Azure’s global edge fabric — Azure Front Door (AFD) — triggered DNS and routing anomalies that left Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox/Minecraft authentication and numerous customer sites intermittently unreachable while engineers rolled back the change and rerouted traffic to restore service. Background / Overview Microsoft Azure is one of...

Microsoft’s Azure outage on October 29 briefly knocked Alaska Airlines’ website and mobile app offline, forcing passengers to check in at airport counters and exposing how a single control‑plane error at the edge can cascade into real‑world travel disruption. Background Alaska Airlines confirmed that several customer‑facing services are hosted on Microsoft Azure and that those services were affected during the global Microsoft outage on October 29. In guidance to travelers, the airline...

Samsung’s long-running mobile browser is staging what may be its most consequential return to the desktop: a Windows beta of Samsung Internet that promises cross-device sync, built-in Galaxy AI tools, and tighter integration with Samsung account services — but it also raises important questions about performance, password sync, and data flows that IT pros and power users will want clarified before switching browsers. Background Samsung Internet has been a staple on Galaxy phones for more...

The case for refreshing corporate PCs with Windows 11 and HP’s new AI‑capable hardware is both urgent and strategically promising: a hard Windows 10 end‑of‑support deadline, the arrival of Copilot+‑class devices with dedicated NPUs, and new vendor services that bundle procurement, financing and managed lifecycle operations make this refresh an operational opportunity rather than merely a compliance checkbox. Background / Overview Microsoft’s support calendar creates an immovable planning...

Satya Nadella’s simple framing — that Microsoft’s Copilot Stack is the orchestration layer that turned isolated model breakthroughs into practical, enterprise-grade AI — captures both the company’s product bet and the strategic argument that underpinned recent investor and product commentary across multiple forums. The claim is not just rhetorical: Microsoft has repeatedly described Copilot as the front-end conductor that binds datacenter scale, a governed enterprise data fabric, and a...

Microsoft’s decision to draw a line under routine Windows 10 updates on October 14, 2025 is now a practical security inflection point for millions of endpoints worldwide — a scheduled vendor lifecycle event that transforms a familiar, working OS into an increasingly risky liability unless organizations act fast. Background What changed on October 14, 2025 Microsoft ended mainstream support for most consumer and many commercial SKUs of Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. After that date...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a widespread outage on October 29, 2025, that temporarily disrupted Microsoft 365, Xbox/Minecraft authentication, the Azure management portal and a raft of third‑party services after an inadvertent configuration change in the Azure Front Door control plane caused routing, DNS and edge‑routing failures across global points‑of‑presence. Background / Overview The October 29 incident hit during the middle of the global workday: Azure detected elevated...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone faltered on the afternoon of October 29, 2025, when an Azure Front Door configuration error produced a global outage that briefly knocked Xbox storefronts, Xbox Game Pass installs, Minecraft authentication, Microsoft 365 admin consoles and a long list of third‑party sites offline — a high‑visibility incident that exposed how tightly modern gaming and productivity experiences are bound to centralized cloud routing and identity services. Background / Overview The...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric showed early signs of recovery late Wednesday after a global Azure outage that began mid‑day on October 29 and knocked a swath of Microsoft services, customer portals and dozens of downstream business systems offline — an incident engineers traced to an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD), Microsoft’s global edge and application delivery fabric. Background Microsoft Azure is one of the world’s three hyperscale cloud platforms and hosts both...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric suffered a major disruption beginning on October 29, 2025 (UTC) when an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door (AFD) triggered DNS, routing and authentication failures that cascaded across Microsoft 365, Azure management surfaces, Xbox services and thousands of customer sites worldwide — an outage that reached Australian hours on October 30, 2025 (AEDT) and renewed urgent conversations about cloud resiliency, vendor risk and incident readiness...

Gigantic’s open beta on Xbox One and Windows 10 arrived as a clear statement of intent: Motiga’s action‑MOBA would try to carve out a distinct niche in an increasingly crowded multiplayer market by coupling high‑twitch hero combat with a unique “Guardian” mechanic and cross‑platform play via the Windows Store and Xbox Game Preview. The title launched into open beta under Microsoft’s Game Preview program, offered as a free‑to‑play experience with the option to buy a Founder’s Pack that...

Samsung’s long-promised desktop leap finally arrives in beta form, delivering a Chromium‑based Samsung Internet client for Windows with Galaxy continuity, built‑in AI browsing assists, and a privacy‑forward dashboard — but the initial rollout is deliberately narrow, staged, and leaves several enterprise‑grade questions unanswered. Background Samsung Internet has been a quietly powerful alternative on Android for years, bundled as the default browser on Galaxy phones and tablets and praised...

Microsoft’s global cloud fabric suffered a broad, high‑impact disruption on October 29, 2025, when an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) triggered DNS and routing failures that knocked Microsoft 365 (Office 365), Xbox Live/Minecraft authentication, the Azure management portal and a host of third‑party services offline or into intermittent failure as engineers rolled back to a “last known good” configuration to restore routing and service availability. Background /...

Microsoft’s engineers reported initial signs of recovery after a widespread Azure outage that began mid‑afternoon UTC on 29 October 2025 and knocked large swathes of Microsoft 365, Azure management surfaces and numerous customer sites offline while the company rolled back to a previously validated configuration to restore edge routing. Background Azure Front Door (AFD) is Microsoft’s global, Layer‑7 edge and application delivery fabric: a combination of TLS termination, global HTTP(S)...

Alaska Airlines customers experienced disruptions to online check‑in and booking after a widespread Microsoft Azure outage took down parts of the carrier’s website and mobile app on October 29, 2025, a failure that underscores the operational and reputational risks airlines face when core customer‑facing systems sit on third‑party cloud platforms. Background Alaska Airlines — which has been rebuilding and consolidating its IT estate following its acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines and several...