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As Mexico races to capture the economic prize of nearshoring and advanced manufacturing, the country’s biggest constraint is no longer land or capital — it’s people with the right blend of digital literacy, technical craft and adaptable problem‑solving. A recent Mexico Business News feature lays out this challenge clearly: while adoption of generative AI and other Industry 4.0 technologies is accelerating inside Mexican workplaces, formal skills recognition, curricular alignment, and...

Microsoft and ASUS’ Republic of Gamers (ROG) have pushed handheld PC gaming into a new chapter with the ROG Xbox Ally and the higher-end ROG Xbox Ally X — two handhelds built in close partnership with Xbox that marry Windows 11, Xbox software features, and ROG hardware refinements into devices designed to play PC and Xbox games anywhere. Background / Overview The ROG Xbox Ally family is the direct outcome of a multi-year evolution of the ROG Ally line and a deliberate collaboration between...

Microsoft’s October cumulative for Windows 11, KB5066835, has introduced a serious regression that leaves many systems unable to accept USB keyboard and mouse input inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), effectively blocking access to built‑in recovery tools on otherwise healthy machines — Microsoft and multiple community channels are already investigating and workarounds are circulating while an official fix is prepared. Background / Overview Microsoft published the October 14...

Title: The next PC platform shift? Ed Bott on Microsoft’s big Windows AI bet — what it means for users, OEMs, and developers Introduction Ed Bott — a veteran technology journalist who has covered Microsoft for more than three decades — recently laid out a straightforward but consequential thesis: Microsoft is making a deliberate, high‑stakes bet that AI will be the next axis of change for the PC platform, and Windows will be positioned at the center of that shift. He points out a pattern...

Nvidia and TSMC today unveiled the first U.S.-made Blackwell wafer — a milestone that signals both technological progress and a new chapter in the geopolitics of AI silicon supply chains. Background The announcement celebrates a wafer produced at TSMC’s Phoenix, Arizona fabrication complex that will be processed into Nvidia’s Blackwell-family GPUs — the chips that now power a huge share of AI training and inference workloads in data centers worldwide. Nvidia framed the event as an onshoring...

Microsoft’s formal end-of-support for Windows 10 is now a hard calendar date—and for campuses, departments and IT teams that still manage Windows 10 endpoints it transforms a long‑standing maintenance task into an actionable project with security, compliance, budget and sustainability implications. Background / Overview Microsoft set October 14, 2025 as the official end-of-support (end-of-life, EOL) cutoff for mainstream Windows 10 servicing. After that date, routine OS‑level security...

Degreed’s Vision 2025 set a clear marker for where enterprise learning is headed: personalized, adaptive, and tightly coupled to skills, roles, and business outcomes rather than content for its own sake. The Salt Lake City announcements centered on a purpose-built learning AI called Degreed Maestro, a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server to inject skills and role context into general-purpose AI, an expanded Degreed Open Library of AI-generated pathways, and a suite of adaptive exercises...

Microsoft has quietly lifted two more targeted compatibility holds that kept a noticeable slice of Windows PCs from being offered Windows 11, version 24H2 through Windows Update — a change that reopens the upgrade path for affected users but also highlights the brittle dependencies between modern OS updates, vendor drivers, and third‑party middleware. Microsoft’s Release Health entries show the two recent removals were driven by vendor-supplied driver updates: one resolving a Dirac Audio /...

When you finish the Windows out‑of‑box experience and face that blank desktop for the first time, a handful of well‑chosen utilities quickly makes the machine feel like a real, usable PC — not an un‑finished demo. ZDNET’s recent roundup of “5 apps I always install on every new Windows PC” recommends the small, practical toolkit of PDFgear, HWMonitor, VLC Media Player, Steam, and Microsoft PowerToys as day‑one installs that solve everyday problems faster than poking through built‑in apps or...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update turns Copilot from a sidebar helper into a multimodal, system-level companion that listens, sees, and — when explicitly permitted — can act on your behalf, reshaping how people will interact with their PCs going forward. The company has introduced an opt‑in wake word (“Hey, Copilot”), expanded Copilot Vision to analyze selected app windows and the desktop, and previewed an experimental agent layer called Copilot Actions that can perform multi‑step tasks...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update recasts the PC as an AI PC, embedding hands‑free Copilot voice control, screen‑aware Copilot Vision, and experimental agentic Copilot Actions into the operating system and beginning a staged rollout through Windows Update that targets both everyday Windows 11 machines and a premium “Copilot+” hardware tier. Background / Overview Microsoft has been folding generative AI into Windows and Microsoft 365 for several years; the October update accelerates that...

Microsoft’s long-running dark-mode inconsistency is finally getting a meaningful fix: Insider preview builds now include a dark theme for legacy File Explorer dialogs and the Run box, and early screenshots and hands-on reports show the change happening behind server-side feature flags and optional ViVeTool toggles. Background Windows has offered a system-wide dark theme since Windows 10, but adoption across the OS has been uneven: modern WinUI and many Store apps respect the setting, while a...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview checkpoint, published as KB5067106 (reported in the Dev and Beta channels as Build 26220.6972 for 25H2 and Build 26120.6972 for 24H2), delivers a set of modest but meaningful user-experience refinements: a one-click “View my benefits” shortcut in the Start menu that links to Microsoft account perks, updated Game Pass branding and benefits language inside Settings, improved dark-mode consistency across File Explorer dialogs, a user-facing toggle to disable...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update finally gives Copilot a voice you can wake with a phrase — “Hey, Copilot” — and pairs that wake‑word activation with broader, permissioned vision and experimental agent capabilities that can see, hear, and — with explicit consent — act on your behalf across desktop apps and local files. This update is being positioned as a turning point in Microsoft’s “AI PC” strategy: voice and visual context are promoted as first‑class inputs, while a new Copilot+...

After decades of daily use on both sides—Google’s cloud-first Docs Editors and Microsoft’s long-evolved Microsoft 365—the picture is clearer than ever: each suite has a distinct philosophy and a sharply different best fit. The PCMag comparison that prompted this reassessment lays out a pragmatic verdict: Microsoft wins on raw power, offline capability, and advanced document/analysis tools, while Google wins on built-in cloud collaboration, simplicity, and accessible AI for all users...

Microsoft has started a broad, phased rollout of Windows 11, version 25H2 — the 2025 feature update — and is making it available to all eligible devices that opt in to receive updates "as soon as they're available," while enterprise and consumer admins are being urged to weigh the convenience of a near-instant enablement package against real-world compatibility risks exposed in the first weeks after release. Background Windows 11, version 25H2 (often referred to as the Windows 11 2025...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update turns Copilot from a sidebar helper into an OS‑level collaborator — one that listens when you say “Hey, Copilot,” sees the windows on your screen, and, with explicit permission, can take multi‑step actions on your behalf — a move Microsoft positions as the keystone of the company’s push to make “every Windows 11 PC an AI PC.” Background Microsoft has been integrating generative AI across its ecosystem for several years, but the October wave of Windows 11...

ASUS and Microsoft’s ROG Xbox Ally lands as a pragmatic reimagining of the Windows handheld: a compact, controller‑first device that ships with Windows 11 and a purpose‑built, full‑screen Xbox experience designed to make PC gaming feel like a console without giving up Windows’ openness. The result is one of the most comfortable, thoughtfully engineered handhelds on the market in 2025 — yet its performance compromises, software maturity, and battery trade‑offs make it a device that rewards...

Microsoft’s October recovery updates for Windows 11—KB5067039 and KB5067019—arrive as narrowly scoped but operationally important Safe OS Dynamic Updates that refresh the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) and related pre‑boot/setup binaries across multiple Windows 11 branches and Windows Server 2025, changing a small but meaningful piece of recovery behavior and giving administrators a low‑risk tool to harden images and recovery media before upgrades or broad rollouts. Background Windows’...

When an app moves from novelty to necessity, the metrics that once measured its success change shape — and the latest telemetry suggests ChatGPT is undergoing exactly that transition. New analysis circulating this month argues ChatGPT’s mobile expansion has peaked: monthly download growth is slowing, daily active user growth is flattening, and a wave of competitor products — notably Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot — are converting distribution and productization into rapid mobile...