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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...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric briefly failed in public view on October 29, 2025, when a configuration error in Azure Front Door (AFD) produced a cascade of latency, authentication failures, and service interruptions that knocked Microsoft 365, Outlook, Xbox Live, Microsoft’s own Azure Portal and a long tail of customer-facing sites partly offline — and the outage unfolded just hours before Microsoft’s scheduled quarterly earnings announcement. Background Microsoft Azure is one of the world’s...

Midday on Wednesday, October 29, thousands of organizations and consumers worldwide experienced a major disruption that left Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 admin surfaces, and a wide range of dependent services intermittently unavailable or sluggish — an incident Microsoft attributed to a problematic configuration change in its global edge routing fabric and subsequently moved to roll back to a “last known good” state while rerouting traffic and recovering nodes. Background / Overview On...

Thousands of Microsoft customers worldwide woke to interrupted workflows and unreachable portals on October 29 after a configuration error in Microsoft’s edge network knocked Azure and Microsoft 365 services offline for hours, forcing emergency rollbacks, traffic failovers and a frantic scramble to restore global routing and identity flows. Background On the afternoon of October 29 (approximately 16:00 UTC), Microsoft publicly acknowledged a widespread loss of availability affecting services...

If you’ve ever stared at your computer and wondered which operating system (and exact version) is actually running under the hood, you’re not alone — and it’s far easier to discover than most people think. This guide walks through simple, reliable ways to identify the exact version of Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS on any machine, explains why the difference between an “edition,” “version,” and “build” matters, and gives practical tips for troubleshooting, security checks, and enterprise...

Microsoft engineers reported that they had begun restoring service after a global Azure outage triggered by an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD), an incident that knocked Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, Xbox/Minecraft sign‑ins and thousands of customer sites offline before a staged rollback and traffic‑rebalancing plan began to reduce the outage’s scope. Background Azure Front Door is Microsoft’s global, Layer‑7 edge and application‑delivery fabric: a distributed...

Microsoft’s Copilot has a new face: a deliberately non‑human, animated avatar called Mico that Microsoft unveiled as the visible anchor of a sweeping “Copilot Fall Release” aimed at turning reactive chat into a persistent, voice‑first collaborator — and the company is explicitly pitching it as what Clippy should have been, not what Clippy became. Background / Overview Microsoft announced a major consumer push for Copilot in a staged fall rollout that bundles personality, long‑term memory...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a high‑visibility global outage on October 29, 2025 after an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) caused widespread DNS, routing and authentication failures that cascaded through Microsoft 365, Outlook, Copilot, Xbox Live, and numerous third‑party sites; Microsoft moved quickly to freeze AFD changes, roll back to a last‑known‑good configuration, and recover edge nodes, restoring service progressively over the following hours...

A widespread outage tied to an Azure Front Door configuration change knocked Microsoft Azure and a large swath of dependent services offline on October 29, 2025, forcing engineers into an emergency rollback while customers and critical industries scrambled to route around disrupted infrastructure. Background Microsoft’s Azure Front Door (AFD) is a globally distributed Layer‑7 edge and application delivery service that performs TLS termination, global HTTP(S) routing, Web Application Firewall...

Amazon Web Services reported that it was “operating normally” after a fresh wave of outage reports on Wednesday, insisting that Downdetector spikes and social-media complaints did not reflect any active incidents on AWS systems — even as Microsoft simultaneously logged an Azure disruption tied to an inadvertent configuration change. Background Cloud outages are rarely a single-company problem anymore. Over the last decade the internet’s backbone has consolidated around a few hyperscale...

Millions of users and thousands of businesses worldwide were knocked offline for hours after a widespread Microsoft outage tied to Azure Front Door left Azure, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, Xbox and other services unreachable or sluggish on October 29–30, 2025, exposing how a single configuration change in a global traffic management layer can cascade into a multi-hour, cross‑service disruption that affected everything from corporate email to airline check‑in systems. Background Microsoft’s...

Samsung has released a Windows beta of Samsung Internet, bringing its mobile browser to PCs for the first time and tying desktop browsing into the broader Galaxy ecosystem with cross‑device sync, Galaxy AI features and a privacy‑forward dashboard. Background / Overview Samsung Internet has been a quietly powerful alternative on Galaxy phones for years: a Chromium‑based browser with strong privacy controls, extension support, and increasingly visible AI tools on mobile. The new PC beta is...

Satya Nadella’s claim that the “Copilot Stack orchestrates the AI breakthrough” is more than a CEO soundbite — it’s Microsoft’s public thesis for turning raw model advances into reliable, auditable, and monetizable enterprise workflows, and the company has both architectural ingredients and economic incentives to make that thesis credible. Background / Overview Microsoft’s recent investor and product messaging frames Copilot not as a single assistant but as a layered platform: an...

Microsoft has quietly given Copilot on Windows a practical new ability: Vision can now accept typed inputs and return typed outputs, letting you share one or more app windows or a desktop region and type questions about what Copilot sees, with replies appearing in the same Copilot chat pane rather than only as spoken coaching. Background / Overview Copilot’s Vision capability is Microsoft’s effort to make the PC assistant truly multimodal — able to see what’s on your screen, hear your voice...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric hit a global snag that blanked sign‑ins, timed out checkouts and produced a livestream of memes across social media as engineers worked to roll back a change and bring services back online. Background / Overview The disruption began as a routing and DNS‑related degradation in Microsoft’s edge layer during the global workday, producing widespread timeouts and authentication failures for both Microsoft’s own properties and countless third‑party sites that rely on...

Ava Risk Group’s hybrid Annual General Meeting proceeded in person in Melbourne despite a last‑minute disruption to its virtual component after a global outage that hit Microsoft’s Azure platform, with the company warning shareholders that online participation and voting could be interrupted while its provider works to restore service; Ava said it was working with the Lumi team on recovery and estimated the online platform would be available by 10:30 am AEDT, while cautioning that further...