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Kuwait has stepped into the regional spotlight by announcing a strategic partnership with Microsoft to build an AI‑powered Azure region on Kuwaiti soil and to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot across government employees — a move framed by officials as a decisive push to make Kuwait a regional hub for cloud and AI services and a cornerstone of the New Kuwait 2035 vision. Background / Overview Kuwait’s announcement is the latest phase of a multi‑year digital transformation drive tied to Vision...

Microsoft’s recent public comments and the Ally partnership with ASUS have pulled back the curtain on a hardware strategy that is at once expansive, pragmatic, and risk-laden — Xbox is clearly not walking away from building consoles and devices, but the path forward will increasingly mix first-party ambition with deep OEM partnerships, cloud investments, and new silicon opportunities from AMD. Background The past year has been turbulent for Xbox’s brand perception: aggressive pricing moves...

A single, almost‑throwaway prompt to an AI coding assistant appears to have stopped a full compromise in its tracks — and the episode should be a wake‑up call for developers, hiring teams, and security pros about how social engineering has evolved into a high‑precision, blockchain‑backed attack vector that targets the very people who build and secure our systems. The incident, described this week in investigative reporting and corroborated by multiple threat researchers, shows how a...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday quietly delivered what will likely be remembered as the final tranche of Windows 10 WinRE (Windows Recovery Environment) updates: a delivery wrapper and matching Safe OS payloads published under KB5068164 and KB5067017 for Windows 10 versions 21H2 and 22H2, alongside companion Safe OS packages targeting legacy branches and the final Windows 10 cumulative (KB5066791) that marks the end of mainstream servicing for the platform. Background / Overview WinRE —...

Amazon Web Services suffered a broad regional outage early on October 20 that knocked dozens of widely used apps and platforms offline — from team collaboration tools and video calls to social apps, bank services and smart-home devices — with early evidence pointing to DNS-resolution problems with the DynamoDB API in the critical US‑EAST‑1 region. Overview The incident unfolded as a high‑impact availability event for one of the internet’s most relied‑upon clouds. AWS posted status updates...

Microsoft and Intel are reportedly moving from public partnership to practical production: multiple industry outlets say Microsoft has placed a foundry order with Intel Foundry to build its next‑generation AI accelerator, Maia 2, on Intel’s advanced 18A process or the performance‑tuned 18A‑P variant — a shift that would materially change supply‑chain dynamics for Azure compute and validate key technical claims about Intel’s leading node. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Maia family is the...

Anthropic’s Claude is now embedded directly into Microsoft 365 and Teams, giving enterprise users a conversational interface that can search, summarise, and analyse content from Word, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive without manual uploads — a move that deepens Anthropic’s enterprise footprint and accelerates the shift toward a multi‑model, agentic workplace. Background Anthropic’s Claude has long been positioned as a workplace‑focused large language model family. The company’s...

Amazon Web Services suffered a broad outage that knocked major apps and games offline across large parts of the internet, leaving millions unable to sign in, save work, or even start a meeting as the cloud provider’s US‑EAST‑1 region reported “increased error rates” and elevated latencies. Background Cloud platforms are the foundation of modern internet services. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the dominant public cloud provider and the primary hosting layer for countless consumer apps...

Microsoft’s October servicing wave has produced a trio of high‑impact regressions that are already disrupting developer workflows, blocking on‑device recovery options, and interfering with smart‑card authentication — and administrators must balance the imperative to patch critical vulnerabilities against the immediate operational risk these side effects create. Microsoft has acknowledged the issues on its Windows Release Health pages, deployed temporary Known Issue Rollbacks (KIRs) in some...

Microsoft’s late-stage pivot in the long-running ValueLicensing dispute — recasting what began as an antitrust and licensing fight into a copyright question — has elevated a technical legal argument into a case that could reshape the pre-owned software market across Europe and the UK. The Competition Appeal Tribunal is now being asked to decide whether perpetual desktop products such as Microsoft Office (and by extension Windows and other packaged software) are protected as creative works...

Microsoft and Intel are at the center of a new, potentially game‑changing rumor: industry reporting says Intel Foundry has been tapped to manufacture Microsoft’s next‑generation Maia AI accelerator on the company’s advanced Intel 18A / 18A‑P process — a development that would validate Intel’s foundry ambitions while reshaping supply‑chain and engineering choices for hyperscalers. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Maia family is the company’s flagship effort to build custom AI accelerators...

NTDEV’s tiny11 25H2 — a stripped-down Windows 11 build that promises to revive older PCs and bypass Microsoft’s tighter setup rules — has re-entered the Windows conversation, offering a fast, low-footprint alternative to full Windows 11 installs while also raising serious questions about security, supportability, and licensing. The project ships as two flavors: a serviceable tiny11 that preserves updateability and many Windows features, and an ultra-minimal tiny11 core that sacrifices...

Microsoft has confirmed that the October Windows 11 cumulative update (KB5066835) delivered on October 14, 2025 introduced a regression that can make the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) ignore USB-connected keyboards and mice, leaving built‑in recovery tools inaccessible until Microsoft ships a fix. Background / Overview WinRE — the Windows Recovery Environment — is a compact, separate “Safe OS” image (commonly deployed as winre.wim) that runs outside your normal Windows session to...

Turning a tired Windows laptop into a fast, low‑maintenance Chromebook is one of the simplest, highest‑value upgrades you can do before discarding hardware — and Google’s ChromeOS Flex makes that conversion free, reversible for testing, and surprisingly practical for everyday browsing, video calls, document editing, and streaming. Background Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, a calendar milestone that stops routine security and quality updates for consumer copies unless a...

YouTube can be installed on a Windows 11 laptop in several useful ways — as a Progressive Web App (PWA) for a near-native experience, as a third‑party app from the Microsoft Store, as a Chrome-created desktop shortcut, or via trusted third‑party clients — each method offering different trade‑offs in convenience, features, and security. Background and overview YouTube remains one of the most-used web services on desktop and mobile. While most Windows users access YouTube in the browser...

Microsoft’s October cumulative for Windows 11, delivered as KB5066835 in the October 14, 2025 servicing wave, introduced a high‑impact regression that can render the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) effectively unusable by making USB keyboards and mice unresponsive inside recovery — a problem Microsoft has acknowledged and is actively working to fix. Background / Overview The Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) is the compact, separate “Safe OS” Windows uses for offline troubleshooting...

Logitech’s new Signature Slim Solar+ K980 promises to end the ritual of battery swaps and cable tugs by running exclusively on light — natural or artificial — and packing a battery that the company says is built to last a decade. Background Logitech this year revived a technology long familiar from calculators and a handful of peripherals: harvesting ambient light to keep a keyboard powered. Branded as Logi LightCharge, the Signature Slim Solar+ K980 is a full‑size wireless keyboard with a...

Microsoft has acknowledged that this month’s security rollup for Windows 11 introduced multiple regressions — most critically, a bug that leaves the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) unable to accept USB keyboard and mouse input — and a separate kernel‑mode HTTP stack regression that breaks localhost/IIS connections for many developers and servers. Microsoft has published known‑issue notices and is deploying fixes and Known Issue Rollbacks (KIRs), but the incident highlights the...

Microsoft’s newest Windows 11 update deliberately recasts the PC as a conversational, screen‑aware assistant: Copilot is no longer a sidebar chatbot but a system‑level layer that can listen, see, and — with explicit permission — act across your desktop and cloud accounts. Background Microsoft has been moving toward deeper AI integration across Windows, Office, Edge, and cloud services for years. This latest wave formalizes that trajectory by elevating Copilot from an app to an OS surface. At...

Title: AD Ports’ agent army — how Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio are being used to reshape shipping, logistics and the modern port Byline: [Your Name], WindowsForum.com Lead AD Ports Group has quietly embarked on one of the more ambitious enterprise‑AI programs in logistics: a company‑wide effort to design, build and deploy hundreds of task‑specific AI agents that automate routine work, optimize vessel operations and surface actionable intelligence to people across the organization. The...