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For CPAs who want to move from curiosity to concrete productivity gains, Microsoft Copilot is no longer an experiment — it’s a practical toolset that can streamline client communications, speed spreadsheet work, and surface meeting‑level intelligence, provided firms choose the right Copilot tier, enforce sound governance, and train staff to prompt and verify outputs correctly. Background / Overview Microsoft has split its Copilot family into distinct experiences with materially different...

A sweeping disruption to internet services traced to Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region left dozens of high‑profile apps, streaming platforms, financial portals and even parts of Amazon’s own retail surface partially or fully unusable for hours, underscoring how a single technical failure in a major cloud region can cascade into widespread public impact. Background Modern cloud platforms concentrate a huge share of global web infrastructure into a handful of regions and control‑plane...

U.S. enterprises are increasingly turning to cloud-native backup and disaster recovery solutions as a core element of operational resilience, and a recent wave of press announcements positions IBN Technologies as a prominent Microsoft‑aligned supplier pitching Cloud Backup Services and Azure‑native recovery for mid‑market and enterprise customers. Background Organizations face a compound and rising set of risks: sophisticated ransomware and supply‑chain attacks, accidental data deletion...

A sweeping failure in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region on October 20 produced multi‑hour outages that left dozens of high‑profile apps, games, bank portals and even parts of Amazon’s own retail surface intermittently unusable — a reminder that a handful of hyperscale cloud regions now hold outsized sway over everyday digital life. Background / Overview AWS is the largest provider of cloud infrastructure services and US‑EAST‑1 (Northern Virginia) is one of its oldest, busiest and most...

A major trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot across NHS organisations has produced headline numbers that are hard to ignore: participants reported saving an average of 43 minutes per day, and the trial sponsors modelled that, if scaled, the technology could reclaim around 400,000 hours of staff time every month — a figure the industry is already using to argue for rapid AI deployment across health services. Background Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI assistant embedded into core Microsoft 365 apps...

A sweeping failure in Amazon Web Services’ Northern Virginia hub knocked large swathes of the internet offline for hours on October 20, 2025, disrupting streaming, gaming, messaging, banking and many business platforms while underscoring the systemic risks of concentrating critical infrastructure in a handful of cloud regions. The immediate symptom reported publicly was DNS resolution failures for the DynamoDB API in the US‑EAST‑1 region; AWS engineers applied mitigations that restored DNS...

Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region triggered a multi‑hour, global outage on October 20, 2025, when DNS resolution failures for the DynamoDB API and a cascading impairment inside EC2’s internal networking and health‑monitoring subsystems left thousands of consumer and enterprise apps partially or wholly unusable — a stark reminder that modern digital life still rides on a handful of fragile cloud primitives. The incident knocked social apps, gaming platforms, fintech services and even...

Dev Drive in Windows 11 is the kind of under-the-radar feature that quietly changes how the OS treats storage: formatted with Microsoft’s Resilient File System (ReFS) and tuned for developer workloads, a Dev Drive can also deliver measurable gains for certain gaming scenarios — but it comes with trade‑offs you must understand before moving your library. Background / Overview Microsoft designed ReFS (Resilient File System) to prioritize data integrity, scalability, and reliability. Unlike...

Microsoft’s recent messaging and product shifts make plain what Windows watchers have suspected for months: Windows 11 is being rewritten—literally and philosophically—around AI as a first‑class system capability rather than a collection of add‑on services. Microsoft is calling this transition an “AI‑native” direction and is pairing it with new system features (Copilot Voice, Copilot Vision, Copilot Actions), an explicit hardware tier (Copilot+ PCs with 40+ TOPS NPUs), and platform plumbing...

Q4OS is the kind of lightweight Linux distribution that does one unusual thing very well: it lets you take a decade‑old laptop and give it the look and usable feel of Windows XP — without running Windows XP — and in doing so it turns aging hardware into a practical, safe machine for everyday tasks. Background Q4OS is a Debian‑based distribution designed specifically to be light on resources while offering a familiar desktop experience for users coming from older Windows releases. Rather than...

Microsoft’s push to make every Windows 11 PC an “AI PC” is no longer marketing rhetoric — it’s an engineering and product strategy that folds voice, vision, and limited agentic automation into the operating system itself, centering Copilot as a system-level interaction layer rather than an optional sidebar helper. Background / Overview Microsoft’s October 2025 wave of Windows 11 updates reframes Copilot from a desktop add-on into a primary way of interacting with the PC. The company released...

Microsoft’s claim that a Microsoft 365 Copilot pilot “could save NHS staff 400,000 hours every month” captures a compelling headline—but the number is a projection built on self‑reported time savings, selective pilot conditions and modelling assumptions that deserve scrutiny. The NHS pilot—reported to involve Copilot integrated across Microsoft apps used daily (Outlook, Excel, Teams and more) and to have taken place in around 90 NHS organisations with more than 30,000 workers—returned...

Microsoft Ignite 2025 is not merely another calendar entry for founders — it's a concentrated opportunity to read Microsoft’s product roadmaps in real time, test enterprise appetite for AI solutions, and plug a startup directly into one of the world's most powerful go-to-market engines. Overview This year’s Microsoft Ignite runs November 18–21 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, with online programming available for remote attendees. The conference agenda is focused squarely on AI...

Zorin OS 18’s release landed like a well-timed safety net on October 14, 2025 — the same day Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 10 — and the project reported a rapid download milestone that the Zorin Group called “our biggest launch ever,” claiming roughly 100,000 downloads in a little over two days with more than 72% of those downloads originating from Windows systems. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar set a concrete finish line: Windows 10 mainstream support...

Microsoft says it will re‑center Windows 11 around generative AI — moving Copilot out of a sidebar and into the OS as a first‑class, multimodal interaction layer — and it’s doing so at exactly the moment Windows 10 reaches end‑of‑support, creating both urgency and a large-scale change-management problem for IT teams and consumers alike. Background / Overview Microsoft’s recent announcements reframe Windows 11 as an AI‑native platform, not merely an operating system that happens to include AI...

ZDNET’s compact roundup of more than 40 Windows keyboard shortcuts lays out a practical, learn‑as‑you‑go playbook that turns everyday clicks into repeatable keystrokes — and its “ZDNET Recommends” label signals editorial testing plus transparent affiliate disclosure rather than paid endorsements. The piece zeroes in on high‑ROI keystrokes (copy/paste fundamentals, window and virtual‑desktop controls, screenshot tools, and clipboard history) and pairs those recommendations with a staged...

National Bank of Kuwait’s receipt of the AI Excellence Award at the Microsoft AI Summit in Kuwait signals a decisive step in the bank’s enterprise AI journey — an award that recognizes NBK’s widescale rollout of Microsoft 365 Copilot, concurrent platform modernization, and a structured skilling and governance push that together aim to turn generative AI into measurable productivity gains. Background Kuwait hosted the Microsoft AI Summit under the patronage of His Excellency Omar Saud...

U.S. enterprises are accelerating adoption of Cloud Backup Services from IBN Technologies as part of broader efforts to harden business continuity, streamline disaster recovery, and reduce the operational risk posed by ransomware, system failures, and regulatory complexity. The vendor’s message—automated backups, Azure-native recovery options, and managed governance—reflects a market shift where backup is treated not as an afterthought but as a core component of operational resilience and...

Amazon Web Services suffered a region‑level failure that cascaded into a multi‑hour global outage, knocking dozens of major websites, apps and cloud‑backed devices offline and exposing the tight coupling between core cloud control‑plane primitives and everyday user experiences. Background / Overview AWS’s US‑EAST‑1 region (Northern Virginia) is one of the most heavily used cloud regions in the world. For many vendors it functions as a default hub for compute, identity, managed databases and...

Microsoft has drawn a hard line under a decade of Windows 10 maintenance: as of October 14, 2025, Microsoft’s routine, vendor‑supplied support for mainstream Windows 10 editions has ended, and users are being urged to upgrade, enroll in short‑term Extended Security Updates (ESU), or accept an increasingly risky, unsupported posture. Background Windows 10 launched in July 2015 and for ten years was Microsoft’s primary desktop operating system, updated on a cadence that delivered features...