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If your keyboard’s factory glow feels bland or gets in the way of late‑night work, changing its RGB backlight is one of the fastest ways to personalize a Windows PC and improve visibility—whether you want a single static color, a slow breathing effect for low‑light typing, or per‑key palettes that highlight game binds. This feature walkthrough explains every practical route for Windows PCs: quick Fn‑key tricks, OEM control suites, Windows’ own Dynamic Lighting effort, BIOS/UEFI options...

Microsoft’s rapid Copilot push in Edge reads like choreography: OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Atlas as an “AI-first” browser on October 21, 2025, and within 48 hours Microsoft counters with a broad Copilot Fall Release that recasts Edge as an “AI browser” with multi‑tab reasoning, agentic Actions, resumable Journeys and an expressive avatar called Mico — a timing and product overlap that prompted Bloomberg to describe Microsoft’s move as a “me too” play. Background / Overview The last week of...

Microsoft Teams will soon be able to automatically update a user's work location the moment their laptop joins a company Wi‑Fi network, turning an existing manual status field into an automated presence signal tied to buildings, desk peripherals and centrally managed location mappings. The capability — delivered through Microsoft Places and a new Teams work‑location detection policy — is opt‑in for users but requires tenant configuration, supports both Wi‑Fi (SSID/BSSID) and peripheral...

Microsoft has pushed an emergency out‑of‑band update after a botched October patch left a critical Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) vulnerability — tracked as CVE‑2025‑59287 — incompletely remediated and actively exploited in the wild, prompting urgent warnings from CISA and multiple national CERTs. Background / Overview Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is the on‑premises update distribution and approval system many enterprises still use to centralize Microsoft patching. WSUS...

If your PC can’t run Windows 11, you don’t have to toss it — you can safely keep using that hardware by switching to a non‑Windows operating system, and in many cases the move is free, fast, and reversible. Microsoft ended mainstream updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and even though affected machines will continue to boot, the security and risk calculus has changed: unpatched systems are attractive targets, and many users and organizations are choosing to migrate to Chrome OS Flex...

Microsoft’s blunt message to anyone still running Windows 10 is simple and urgent: your PC will keep working, but staying on an unsupported operating system is increasingly risky — and the clock to act is already ticking. Microsoft ended mainstream, free support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and has a short, tightly scoped bridge in place for consumers (the Extended Security Updates or ESU) while continuing to push the official path forward: upgrade eligible machines to Windows 11 or...

Microsoft’s decision to let Copilot join Teams group chats changes how collaboration and AI assistance intersect inside organizations, enabling the assistant to summarize threads, draft agendas, pull information from accessible files and web results, and participate as a visible chat participant — now rolling out through Teams Public Preview with specific license and admin prerequisites. Background Microsoft has steadily integrated Copilot across Microsoft 365 applications as part of a...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update is a deliberate pivot: the company has bundled a dozen consumer‑facing features under a “human‑centred AI” banner that adds personality, long‑term memory, group collaboration, browser‑level agency and domain‑grounding to Copilot across Windows, Edge and mobile — with an emphasis on opt‑in controls, staged rollouts, and clearer administrative tools. Background Microsoft introduced Copilot as a productivity layer over the last two years and has since broadened...

A deceptively simple diagram turned into a conduit for data theft: security researcher Adam Logue disclosed an indirect prompt‑injection chain that coaxed Microsoft 365 Copilot to fetch private tenant data, hex‑encode it, and hide it inside a Mermaid diagram styled as a fake “Login” button — a link that, when clicked, delivered encoded emails to an attacker-controlled server. Background / Overview Microsoft 365 Copilot is a retrieval‑augmented AI assistant that operates with the calling...

Microsoft’s Copilot Mode for Edge aims to turn your browser from a passive viewer into a thinking, acting assistant — one that summarizes pages, reasons across tabs, remembers projects, and, with explicit permission, executes multi‑step web tasks on your behalf. Background / Overview Copilot Mode is a toggleable browsing experience built into Microsoft Edge that replaces the standard new‑tab surface with a unified Search & Chat entry and a persistent assistant panel. When enabled, the...

Microsoft’s terse clarification did what it set out to do: calm the loudest headline — screenshots captured by Gaming Copilot are not used to train Microsoft’s AI models — while leaving a string of technical, transparency, and governance questions unresolved for PC gamers, streamers, developers, and administrators. Within days of Gaming Copilot’s public beta surfacing inside the Xbox Game Bar, community packet captures and forum posts suggested the overlay was capturing frames, running OCR...

IFI Techsolutions Limited has unveiled a new logo and a refreshed global brand identity as it positions itself to move from regional specialist toward a broader enterprise play — a refresh that the company ties directly to its certified Microsoft credentials, including renewed Azure Expert MSP status and the full set of Microsoft Solution Partner designations. Background Founded in 2013, IFI Techsolutions Ltd. has spent more than a decade building a Microsoft‑centric portfolio of cloud...

Australia’s competition regulator has launched a legal attack on Microsoft, alleging that the company misled some 2.7 million Australian Microsoft 365 subscribers about their renewal choices after bundling the Copilot AI assistant into consumer plans and raising prices. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) filed proceedings in the Federal Court on 27 October 2025, saying Microsoft’s communications — two emails and a blog post — gave the false impression that customers...

Australia’s competition regulator has launched a high‑stakes Federal Court case accusing Microsoft of misleading roughly 2.7 million Australians by bundling its Copilot AI into Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions and, the ACCC says, concealing a lower‑priced “Classic” option until customers tried to cancel. Background / Overview In late 2024 Microsoft began integrating its consumer Copilot assistant into Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plans; the company subsequently adjusted...

IFI Techsolutions Limited today unveiled a new logo and a refreshed global brand identity as it leans into its expanded Microsoft credentials and a stated strategy centered on cloud, AI, security, and digital transformation. Background / Overview Since its founding in 2013, IFI Techsolutions Ltd. has positioned itself as a Microsoft-focused cloud integrator and managed services provider with international reach. The company says it has worked across more than 40 countries and repeatedly...

Microsoft’s Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) is a tightly scoped, paid lifeline — not a replacement for migration — and organisations that treat it as anything else risk rising costs, compliance headaches, and a false sense of security. Background Microsoft set a firm end-of-support date for mainstream Windows 10: 14 October 2025. After that date, routine feature updates, non-security quality fixes and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions cease unless a...

Microsoft’s October cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5066835) promised security hardening and quality fixes — but instead delivered a trio of high-impact regressions that forced an emergency out‑of‑band response and left local web services and recovery workflows in limbo for many users and administrators. One of the two headline problems — USB input loss inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) — was patched quickly with an out‑of‑band update, KB5070773, but a deeper kernel‑level...

Amazon’s Smartchoice curation can cut through the noise—but not every “best” laptop listing is equally useful; this deep-dive verifies the Mint roundup, confirms critical specs, and separates the genuine buys from the overrated SKUs so gamers and professionals can pick the right Smartchoice laptop with confidence. Background Amazon’s Smartchoice label is a merchant-side curation intended to highlight popular, well-reviewed SKUs that match common buyer intents—gaming, productivity...

PlayStation Plus on Windows is now a real option for PC players who want to stream PlayStation catalog titles without owning a console — you can run hundreds of PS4/PS3/PS2/PS1/PSP games from the cloud using Sony’s PlayStation Plus PC app, provided you have the right subscription tier, a compatible controller, and a solid internet connection. Background / Overview Sony consolidated PlayStation Now and PlayStation Plus in 2022 and reintroduced a tiered PlayStation Plus catalog: Essential...

Realtek Audio is still the backbone of audio on the majority of Windows PCs, and whether you run the legacy Realtek HD Audio Manager or the newer Realtek Audio Console on Windows 11, knowing how to open, configure, and troubleshoot those tools can make the difference between smooth, detailed sound and a frustrating mess of missing drivers and distorted audio. This feature walks through the practical steps to access both apps, configure speaker and microphone setups, use enhancements and the...