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Australia’s competition regulator has launched a high‑stakes Federal Court case accusing Microsoft of misleading roughly 2.7 million Australian Microsoft 365 subscribers after the company folded its Copilot generative‑AI assistant into consumer Personal and Family plans and altered renewal pricing—allegations that put product design, subscription disclosure and global AI‑monetization strategies squarely under legal and regulatory scrutiny. Background In late 2024 Microsoft began integrating...

Microsoft has quietly expanded Copilot Vision on Windows to accept typed input as well as voice, letting Windows Insiders share an app or their desktop with Copilot and ask questions by typing while receiving responses in text inside the same Copilot chat window. Background Microsoft’s Copilot effort has steadily moved beyond a sidebar chatbot into a system-level assistant that can listen, see, and — in guarded previews — act. Copilot Vision debuted earlier in Insider channels as a...

Microsoft’s October 21, 2025 update to Azure Linux — shipped as Azure Linux 3.0.20251021 — is a clear signal that the distribution is shifting from a conservative, minimal host to a more feature-rich, security-first base for Azure node images and first‑party services. The release pulls in AppArmor components, produces Azure Marketplace images with the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel, enables DMA Peer‑to‑Peer (P2P) device pathways, and bundles a broad set of package and kernel fixes that target modern...

Microsoft’s long-running experiment with the Windows 11 Start menu has finally produced a practical, much-improved design — and while Microsoft is rolling it out gradually via the October/November 2025 servicing preview (KB5067036), enthusiasts can get the new Start now if they’re willing to accept a few supported and unsupported trade-offs. Overview For users who’ve spent years complaining that Windows 11’s Start felt cramped, split, and dominated by the “Recommended” feed, the new Start...

Microsoft has begun turning on a rebuilt Start menu for Windows 11 users via the October non‑security preview update (KB5067036), delivering a single, scrollable app surface, three new All apps view modes, deeper Phone Link integration, and several Taskbar and File Explorer refinements — but the redesign is being rolled out gradually and certain controls, enterprise behaviors, and privacy implications deserve close attention. Background Microsoft published KB5067036 to the Release Preview...

Microsoft ha pubblicato un secondo aggiornamento cumulativo di ottobre 2025 per Windows 11: il pacchetto preview KB5067036 porta con sé una ridefinizione visibile del menu Start, nuove integrazioni di Copilot/“Click to Do”, miglioramenti significativi per l’accessibilità (tra cui la Fluid Dictation su Voice Access) e una lunga serie di correzioni di stabilità per File Explorer, taskbar e funzionalità di aggiornamento — alcune funzionalità verranno attivate gradualmente e sono vincolate a...

Microsoft and NVIDIA’s joint announcements at GTC DC mark a decisive step toward turning rack-scale supercomputing and multimodal reasoning models into enterprise-grade, production-ready tools — from on‑premises Azure Local appliances to cloud‑scale GB300 NVL72 clusters and new model families in Azure AI Foundry. Background / Overview For years Microsoft and NVIDIA have co‑engineered both hardware and software to accelerate AI in the cloud. The latest wave of announcements — expanded GPU...

Microsoft’s Release Preview drop KB5067036 delivers one of the biggest visible Start-menu refreshes to Windows 11 in months while bundling a broad set of Copilot and accessibility improvements, taskbar and File Explorer refinements, and a pile of reliability fixes — but it’s a staged, server‑gated rollout, so installing the update does not guarantee immediate exposure to every feature. Background / Overview Microsoft published KB5067036 to the Release Preview channel on October 21, 2025...

Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot Vision on Windows to support a typed input mode, letting you share app windows or your desktop with Copilot and type questions about what it sees — a capability now rolling out to Windows Insiders as a staged preview that broadens where and how Vision can be used. Background / Overview Copilot on Windows has been evolving quickly from a chat sidebar into a system-level assistant that can listen, see, and (in controlled previews) perform multi-step...

Microsoft’s Release Preview push for Windows 11 on October 28, 2025 is a feature‑rich, optional preview cumulative (KB5067036) that ships updated OS binaries for both the 24H2 and 25H2 servicing lanes while intentionally gating many visible features server‑side — meaning installing the package does not guarantee immediate exposure to every change. The package brings a practical Start menu redesign, File Explorer “Recommended Files” and Copilot quick actions, on‑device voice improvements...

Dean Hall — the designer best known as the creator of DayZ and the driving force behind the survival game ICARUS — framed the current debate over generative AI in gaming as a familiar cultural panic, likening it to the alarm that greeted Google and Wikipedia two decades ago, and told Wccftech that “AI is here” and that studios must decide how to manage its impact rather than whether it will arrive. Background The gaming industry has long used automated systems and procedural techniques to...

Satya Nadella’s 2025 annual letter crystallizes a decisive pivot in Microsoft’s corporate narrative: the company is now explicitly positioning itself not just as a cloud and productivity giant, but as the infrastructure and platform leader of an AI-first era—thinking in decades, executing in quarters while pouring unprecedented capital, engineering talent, and product focus into AI, security, and quality. Background Microsoft closed fiscal 2025 with a set of headline numbers and milestones...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a staged Insider preview that finally gives Copilot Vision a typed conversation path — you can now share an app or your screen with Copilot, type questions about what it sees, and receive text replies inside the same Copilot chat window (the update is delivered via the Microsoft Store as Copilot app version 1.25103.107 and higher). Background Microsoft has steadily moved Copilot from a sidebar curiosity into a system-level assistant in Windows that can listen...

Microsoft has begun rolling a modest but consequential update to the Copilot app on Windows that brings a text-in / text-out path to Copilot Vision for Windows Insiders — meaning you can now share an app or screen with Copilot and type questions about what it sees, with Copilot answering in the same chat window. This change converts a Vision experience that until now was primarily voice-driven into a true multimodal path where typed input, not only speech, is a first-class way to interact...

Battlefield: RedSec arrives as a free-to-play, standalone battle-royale experience built on Battlefield 6’s Frostbite foundation, launching globally on October 28, 2025, and promising cross-progression, massive destruction, vehicles, and a distinctly Battlefield-flavored loop aimed at carving space in an already crowded BR market. Background / Overview Battlefield Studios has taken the battle-royale formula and reworked it around what fans expect from a Battlefield title: destructible...

Microsoft has quietly pushed an update to the Intel OpenVINO Execution Provider—version 1.8.18.0—via Windows Update (KB5070604), a targeted component refresh that aims to improve on‑device ONNX inference on Intel CPUs, GPUs and NPUs for Windows 11 devices running 24H2 and 25H2. The package is delivered as a modular AI component and requires the latest cumulative update for the target Windows build before it will install; once applied it appears in Settings → Windows Update → Update history...

Microsoft has issued a targeted component update for AMD’s on‑device AI stack — KB5070605, which bumps the Vitis AI Execution Provider to version 1.8.26.0 for Windows 11 (version 24H2 and 25H2) devices. The public-facing note accompanying the package is short: the update “includes improvements” to the AMD Vitis AI Execution Provider, is delivered automatically through Windows Update, and requires that the device already has the latest cumulative update (LCU) for the applicable Windows 11...

Microsoft’s M365 Copilot has taken a decisive step from being an assistant to becoming a builder: employees in eligible tenants can now ask Copilot to generate working apps, automated workflows, and lightweight AI agents using ordinary natural‑language prompts. The update adds an App Builder agent, a Workflows agent, and an embedded, simplified Copilot Studio (lite) experience to Microsoft 365 Copilot — features Microsoft says are designed to let non‑developers create dashboards, charts...

The Snipping Tool in Windows 11 now does more than take screenshots — it can run a Bing‑powered visual search directly from a capture, giving desktop users a Google Lens–style experience for OCR, translation, product lookup, math solving and more, all from the familiar Win + Shift + S capture flow. Background / Overview Microsoft has been steadily evolving the Snipping Tool from a basic screenshot utility into a compact visual toolkit. Recent updates add built‑in OCR (Text Extractor), QR...

FlyOOBE’s newest public build tightens the project’s role as a compact, technician‑focused toolkit for installing and customizing Windows 11 on machines that Microsoft’s official installer blocks — and version 1.41.581 brings a targeted set of changes that trade automated safety checks for clearer operator control, improved update polling reliability, and several polish fixes to the Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) workflow. Background / Overview Microsoft’s consumer Windows 11 installer...