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Microsoft has released an out‑of‑band emergency update to patch a critical remote‑code‑execution vulnerability in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) — tracked as CVE‑2025‑59287 — and administrators must treat every WSUS host as a top‑tier remediation priority until it is patched or safely isolated. Background / Overview Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is the on‑premises update distribution and approval system many organizations use to stage and deliver Microsoft updates to...

Florida Atlantic University engineers have produced a rigorous, head‑to‑head validation showing that foot‑mounted wearable IMUs and a single Azure Kinect depth camera can reproduce the fine‑grained, per‑step gait measurements clinicians expect from an instrumented walkway — a result that brings practical, low‑cost gait analysis for clinics, community care, and telehealth markedly closer to reality. Background / Overview Gait is increasingly recognized as a clinical vital sign: subtle changes...

Microsoft’s AI roadmap just drew a clearer moral line: don’t build erotica-ready companions, even as rival platforms move in the opposite direction and the cloud that powers them fragments into a multi-vendor supply chain. Background The past two months have exposed a widening philosophical rift inside the consumer-AI mainstream: one camp, led publicly by Microsoft’s head of consumer AI Mustafa Suleyman, is pushing for bounded, auditable assistants designed for productivity, health‑aware...

Ofcom has launched a formal consultation to repurpose an unused slice of the 1900 MHz band—specifically the 1900–1920 MHz block—and is proposing to allocate 1900–1910 MHz to the rail industry for Future Rail Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) rollout and 1910–1915 MHz to support Emergency Services Network (ESN) gateway coverage, with licences expected to become available from 3 April 2029 if the plan proceeds. Background / Overview The 1900–1920 MHz range was originally assigned to mobile...

Microsoft’s new Full Screen Experience for Windows 11 is more than a cosmetic “big tiles” makeover — it quietly trims legacy networking drivers, suppresses startup apps and parts of the Explorer shell, and exposes a developer API so games and launchers can detect and adapt to the mode. Background / Overview The Full Screen Experience (FSE), commonly described in press as “Xbox mode” or “handheld mode,” is a layered shell that boots a Windows 11 system into a controller‑first launcher...

Windows 11 has matured into a polished, secure desktop OS — but some built‑in choices keep driving power users and everyday customers to the same conclusion: Microsoft should drop a handful of default features or at least make them opt‑in, not on by default. Pocket‑lint’s short list of four grievances — the Widgets panel, Copilot’s omnipresence, persistent upsells and tips, and growing reliance on Microsoft accounts/OneDrive — captures a set of practical problems that recur across forums...

Windows 10 has reached its formal end of mainstream support and, as of October 14, 2025, Microsoft stopped issuing routine security and feature updates for most consumer and business editions — a change that turns the platform from “supported” to an increasingly attractive target for opportunistic attackers unless device owners take decisive action. This transition is creating a predictable shift in the threat landscape: attackers will favor stale, unpatched systems, while defenders must...

Microsoft and M‑Files’ newly deepened alliance promises to attack one of the oldest productivity drains in modern business — fragmented information and “content chaos” — by embedding metadata-driven document management directly into the Microsoft 365 fabric and bringing AI into the center of everyday workstreams. This move stitches M‑Files’ metadata-first automation and its GenAI assistant, M‑Files Aino, into Microsoft’s SharePoint Embedded API and Copilot ecosystem, aiming to make content...

Microsoft’s decision to flip automatic device encryption on by default in Windows 11 version 24H2 changed a quiet, optional security feature into a near‑ubiquitous behavior for modern Windows installs — and that change has already surprised, inconvenienced, and in a few cases resulted in data loss for users who didn’t expect encryption to appear on their drives. Background / Overview Windows has offered full‑disk encryption via BitLocker for many years, but until recently it was generally a...

Eastwall’s announcement that it has secured the Microsoft Advanced Specialization for Azure VMware Solution (AVS) — its fifth Advanced Specialization — is a meaningful signal for enterprise IT teams evaluating partners for large-scale VMware migrations to Azure. The badge affirms that Eastwall passed Microsoft’s formal verification gates and audit process, but the credential is a time‑bound snapshot: procurement teams should treat it as a starting filter and follow a disciplined...

The week's PC Perspective Podcast (recorded October 22, 2025) folded a fast-moving set of silicon and cloud stories into a single, noise-clearing episode: evidence of a Ryzen 9000G APU appearing in firmware/AGESA traces, fresh chatter about dual‑X3D and next‑gen 3D‑V‑Cache variants, renewed benchmarking and real‑world comparisons between the Ryzen 9 9950X and 9950X3D, a major AWS US‑East control‑plane outage that exposed fragile cloud dependencies, and a high‑impact rumor that Intel Foundry...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update pushes the assistant from a reactive helper toward a persistent, personality-driven companion — introducing a voice‑first avatar called Mico (a deliberate Clippy nod), long‑term memory and privacy controls, multi‑user Copilot Groups, deeper Edge integrations that can read and act on web pages, and new connectors for Gmail, Google Drive and Google Calendar — features Microsoft is rolling out to U.S. consumers first and expanding afterward. Background...

Microsoft’s “your PC is too old” message can feel like a sales pitch in disguise — but for many users it’s a compatibility line, not necessarily the final word. I followed the same path described in a recent technology dispatch and, with a targeted tool and a careful checklist, moved a five-year‑old desktop from Windows 10 to Windows 11 in minutes. The trick wasn’t magic; it was a controlled bypass of the installer’s TPM and Secure Boot gate, using a widely used installer tool and a few...

If your touchscreen or pen suddenly stopped responding, the fix is often far less dramatic than you fear: the Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service (a.k.a. Tablet PC Input Service) may simply be disabled or set to the wrong startup type, and re-enabling it typically restores touch, handwriting, and on-screen keyboard functionality within minutes. This feature-first guide explains exactly what the service does, shows multiple safe ways to re-enable it (Services GUI, PowerShell, and...

I upgraded a five‑year‑old desktop to Windows 11 in minutes — not by buying new hardware, but by using a freshly written Rufus USB and a careful, safety‑first approach to bypassing Microsoft's strict compatibility checks. Background / Overview Microsoft formally ended free support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, meaning consumers who stay on Windows 10 will no longer receive security updates, feature updates, or official technical assistance after that date. This end‑of‑support milestone...

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a face: an animated, expressive avatar called Mico that appears in voice interactions and aims to make AI on the PC feel more like a helpful companion than a cold tool. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot Fall Release reframes the company’s consumer AI strategy around what it calls human‑centered AI, emphasizing productivity, creativity, and social collaboration rather than attention‑grabbing engagement. The centerpiece of the consumer rollout is Mico, a...

Microsoft’s Copilot Fall Release is a deliberate reframe of the assistant from a one-off query tool into a persistent, multimodal companion—bundling a dozen headline features that add personality, group collaboration, long‑term memory, deeper Edge and Windows automation, and cross‑service connectors aimed at making Copilot feel both more useful and more human-centered. Background Microsoft introduced the Copilot Fall Release publicly during its late‑October Copilot Sessions, positioning the...

Microsoft’s latest push turns Edge into an AI-first browsing surface: Copilot Mode brings conversational voice controls, multi‑tab “agentic” actions, resumable Journeys, and explicit opt‑in privacy controls — all designed to let an assistant do the web for you rather than just summarize it. Microsoft frames Copilot Mode as opt‑in, permissioned, and rolled out in limited preview; the company says Actions with Voice can open pages, jump to information without scrolling, and — with permission —...

Security researchers and government cybersecurity teams are publicly warning that millions of Windows 10 machines face an elevated risk of malicious attacks now that Microsoft’s vendor-supplied patching lifecycle has moved past the platform’s mainstream support window — a transition that turns newly discovered flaws into persistent, exploitable attack surfaces unless users take prompt, decisive action. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in 2015 and remained a dominant desktop platform...

Microsoft’s October AI push pulls the thread that has been running through Windows development for two years and tightens it into a single, consumer‑and‑enterprise facing narrative: Copilot is no longer an optional sidebar — it’s the OS’s new interaction layer, and Microsoft is matching software changes with device‑level hardware guarantees to make multimodal, on‑device AI meaningful in daily use. Background / Overview Microsoft used its October 2025 announcements to fold a wide range of...