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Microsoft’s Copilot Fall Release is a decisive pivot: the assistant is no longer only a single-user Q&A tool but a persistent, multimodal companion designed to remember, collaborate, and act — complete with an optional animated persona, shared group sessions, long-term memory, cross-account connectors, proactive research tools, and new browser and OS automations that together aim to make AI more human-centred and useful. Overview Microsoft packaged the Copilot Fall Release as a...

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform suffered a widespread outage on October 29, 2025, that traced back to a configuration error inside Azure Front Door (AFD) — Microsoft's global content delivery and routing service — and exposed how a single invalid configuration combined with a software validation flaw can cascade into global service disruption, long recovery windows, and painful downstream impacts for enterprises and consumers alike. Background / Overview Azure Front Door is the global edge...

Microsoft’s Azure platform suffered a high‑impact outage on October 29, 2025, after an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door triggered DNS‑related failures that left thousands of businesses, games, productivity tools and consumer services intermittently unreachable — a stark reminder of how concentrated modern internet infrastructure has become. Background Azure Front Door, DNS and the architecture that routes the web Azure Front Door (AFD) is Microsoft’s global application...

Microsoft’s cloud suffered a major outage on October 29, 2025 that left Microsoft 365, Xbox Live, the Azure management portal and thousands of customer websites intermittently unreachable for hours — a failure Microsoft attributes to an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) that produced DNS and routing faults — and the incident invites a direct comparison with an earlier AWS outage in October 2025 that stemmed from a DNS race condition in DynamoDB’s control plane...

A rare-but-terrifying alignment of cloud failures left millions offline and exposed a fragile truth about modern internet architecture: when Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure hiccup, winners and victims alike can be anyone who depends on the cloud — from global banks and airlines to Minecraft players and social-media users trying to refresh their feeds. Background Over the third week of October and again at the end of the month, two separate, high-profile outages illustrated how a...

You plug a USB drive into Windows and instead of the familiar chime you get a terse: “Unknown USB Device (Set Address Failed)” — a small message with big consequences that can put your files and workflow at risk in seconds. Overview The “Unknown USB Device (Set Address Failed)” message — frequently accompanied by Error Code 43 in Device Manager — means Windows failed to complete the USB enumeration handshake. The system could not assign the device an address on the USB bus, so the device...

Microsoft’s formal withdrawal of routine security updates for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025 has turned a long‑announced lifecycle milestone into an urgent risk-management problem for businesses, public services and individual users still running the OS — and local IT suppliers are warning that the window to act is now. Background / Overview Microsoft announced that Windows 10 support ended on 14 October 2025, which means the vendor no longer issues regular security updates, feature releases...

Windows 11’s Start menu has finally been rethought into a single, scrollable launcher with Category, Grid and List views — but Microsoft is rolling the update out gradually, and many users will not see the change even after installing the October preview. If you want the redesign right now, there are two routes: the supported path (install the optional preview package KB5067036 and wait for Microsoft’s staged enablement), or the unsupported community path (use ViVeTool to flip feature flags...

A large-scale disruption to Microsoft’s cloud platform briefly knocked a wide swath of services offline on October 29, 2025, after engineers traced the problem to an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD), Microsoft’s global edge and application-delivery service; the company moved quickly to block further Front Door changes, roll back to a known-good configuration, and reroute traffic, and by late in the day most affected services were reporting recovery though residual...

Microsoft's cloud spine briefly buckled on October 29, 2025, when a configuration change tied to Azure Front Door (AFD) triggered a cascading outage that interrupted a wide swath of Microsoft services — from Microsoft 365 Copilot and admin portals to consumer staples like Minecraft and Xbox authentication — and forced rapid remediation actions to restore global traffic routing. Background / Overview Microsoft's Azure platform hosts critical global services and underpins thousands of...

Microsoft’s Azure platform and a broad swath of dependent services were restored after a major global outage that began on the afternoon of October 29 and persisted into the early hours of October 30, with engineers tracing the disruption to a misapplied configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) and executing a staged rollback and node recovery to restore service. Background / Overview Azure Front Door (AFD) is Microsoft’s global Layer‑7 edge and application‑delivery fabric. It performs...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone stumbled on Wednesday afternoon, briefly knocking offline dozens of widely used sites and services around the world before engineers rolled back a problematic change and restored most systems within hours. The outage — traced to a configuration change affecting Azure Front Door and related DNS routing — disrupted everything from corporate email and gaming services to airline check-in pages and retail websites, and underlined the fragility that comes with...

Two high‑visibility cloud failures in October produced a familiar and uncomfortable spectacle: millions of users suddenly locked out of services they use every day — from Microsoft 365 and Minecraft to Snapchat and a raft of consumer apps — and companies scrambling to explain how a few lines of configuration or a DNS race condition could topple so much of the web. What happened was not a coordinated attack, but a pair of control‑plane failures that exposed the brittle coupling between edge...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone stumbled mid‑day on October 29, 2025, when an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door — the global edge and traffic‑routing fabric that fronts many Microsoft services and thousands of customer sites — triggered widespread latencies, authentication failures and management‑portal breakages that left millions of users and dozens of major businesses struggling through hours of disrupted workflows and online services. Background The outage centered on Azure...

Ubuntu’s 21st birthday this October landed against an unusual backdrop: Microsoft’s formal end of free support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and a renewed campus-level conversation about whether students should consider Linux as a practical alternative. The moment matters because it crystallizes two parallel truths: Ubuntu’s longevity as a gateway Linux distribution, and the real, pragmatic reasons everyday users — students included — are reconsidering the operating systems they run on...

Samsung’s move to bring Samsung Internet to Windows marks a deliberate push to make the Galaxy ecosystem more cohesive — the company has shipped a Windows beta that mirrors the mobile browser’s privacy-first toolkit and ties desktop browsing into Galaxy AI and cross-device sync, but the rollout is staged, region-gated, and carries real performance and privacy trade-offs that users and administrators must evaluate before switching primary workflows to this client. Background and overview...

Microsoft has quietly moved Copilot Vision on Windows from a voice‑first curiosity into a practical, multimodal assistant: Insiders can now type about what Copilot sees and get text replies in the same chat pane, with the ability to flip to voice mid‑conversation — a staged Copilot app update (package version 1.25103.107 and up) that Microsoft began rolling out to Windows Insiders on October 28, 2025. Background / Overview Copilot on Windows has been evolving rapidly from a sidebar chatbot...

A broad Microsoft Azure outage on October 29 produced localized travel delays for Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines but — according to the carriers’ statements — did not force any flight cancellations, as airlines and cloud engineers worked through a staged rollback and temporary manual procedures to keep passengers moving. Background The outage began in the mid‑afternoon UTC window on October 29 when Microsoft engineers and external monitors observed a sudden spike in gateway errors...

Microsoft’s cloud went dark for a chunk of the global workday on October 29, 2025, when a configuration error in Azure Front Door (AFD) cascaded through the company’s edge and identity fabric, knocking Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox services and thousands of customer sites into partial or total outage as engineers froze changes, rolled back to a “last known good” configuration, and rebalanced traffic to restore service. Background / Overview Azure is one of the world’s largest public...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone began to stabilize hours after a global outage on October 29 that left Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, gaming services and dozens of customer websites intermittently unreachable — an incident engineers traced to an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD), the company’s global edge and application delivery fabric. Background / Overview The outage started in the early afternoon U.S. time and rapidly produced a classic control‑plane failure...