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Microsoft has stopped shipping routine security patches and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions, forcing a mass migration decision for millions of PCs — Microsoft is urging eligible users to move to Windows 11, while offering a time‑boxed Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge for devices that cannot upgrade immediately. Background Windows 10 launched in 2015 and, after a decade of regular servicing, reached a firm lifecycle milestone when Microsoft ended mainstream...

Microsoft’s decision to end free, routine support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 transforms a familiar comfort — a decade-old, battle-tested desktop OS — into a scheduled security event with clear technical, financial and social consequences for millions of users and organizations worldwide. Background / Overview Windows 10 arrived in July 2015 and for ten years operated as Microsoft’s dominant desktop platform. Over that decade the operating system matured through continuous feature and...

Zed’s long-awaited arrival on Windows changes the editor landscape: the Rust‑written, GPU‑accelerated code editor that has been a favorite among macOS and Linux users is now a fully supported, native Windows application — and it’s doing so on its own terms rather than by wrapping a web runtime. This release delivers native DirectX 11 rendering and DirectWrite text shaping, deep Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and SSH remoting, WebAssembly‑powered extension parity, and the same AI and Agent...

Microsoft’s official Windows account dropped a short, provocative tease on October 14 promising that “your hands are about to get some PTO,” and the timing—coming the same day Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 10—has quickly reframed the conversation: the company appears to be signaling a push toward hands‑free, voice‑first, AI‑driven interactions for Windows, with Copilot at the center of that strategy. Background Windows 10’s end of mainstream support: the context that matters...

Microsoft’s consumer-facing playbook for creative tools has gone from experimental to prescriptive: its new “Learn to design like a pro with AI” guidance frames Copilot and Microsoft Designer as a single, broadly accessible design surface—available in the browser at copilot.microsoft.com and via the standalone Copilot app—with prompt-driven mood boards, logo drafts, layout suggestions, and in-context image generation intended to speed ideation and early-stage production. Background Microsoft...

Microsoft has pushed one final cumulative security update for Windows 10 as the operating system reaches its official end of support, but that last patch is a short‑term fix — the long‑term answer for most users is an upgrade to a supported platform. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in 2015 and has been Microsoft’s dominant desktop OS for a decade. Microsoft’s lifecycle policy set October 14, 2025 as the end‑of‑support date for mainstream servicing of Windows 10, and the company...

Security experts are sounding the alarm: the official end of Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025 removes Microsoft’s routine security patching and creates a measurable increase in cyber risk for millions of personal devices, small businesses, schools and parts of public infrastructure. Background Microsoft set a firm lifecycle cutoff: Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, which means the company will no longer provide routine security updates, quality/feature updates or...

HappyRobot’s quietly ambitious push to automate the invisible labor that keeps global commerce moving is more than another silicon‑era startup story—it’s a case study in how verticalized AI, pragmatic engineering, and enterprise partnerships can together reshape the operational backbone of supply chains and logistics. Background / Overview HappyRobot began as a small engineering team with deep roots in computer vision and robotics and has rapidly positioned itself as a provider of AI agents...

Microsoft’s official lifecycle clock stopped on October 14, 2025, and with it the predictable stream of security patches that kept Windows 10 resilient against newly discovered kernel, driver and platform exploits — a change that security experts warn will materially increase cyber risk for millions of home users, schools, small businesses and parts of critical infrastructure unless decisive steps are taken now. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in 2015 and, until October 14, 2025...

Microsoft’s MAI‑Image‑1 lands as the company’s first fully in‑house text‑to‑image model — a product‑focused generator built for photorealism and low latency that Microsoft says will be folded into Copilot and Bing Image Creator in the near term, but the announcement leaves important technical, legal and governance questions unanswered. Background Microsoft’s MAI program has moved quickly in 2025 from previews into multiple modality‑specific models. MAI‑Image‑1 follows earlier MAI releases...

Microsoft’s new sensitive data redaction for voice AI agents in Dynamics 365 Contact Center is a practical and overdue step toward privacy-first conversational AI in customer service, introducing a developer-facing mechanism in Copilot Studio to mark variables as sensitive and automatically strip or mask those values from system outputs such as call recordings, transcriptions, and diagnostic logs—a design that promises stronger compliance controls and simpler operational hygiene for...

Oracle and Microsoft have published a joint integration blueprint that aims to pull live factory telemetry into Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM), using Azure IoT Operations at the edge and Microsoft Fabric’s Real‑Time Intelligence in the cloud to generate event-driven automation, faster decision loops, and tighter alignment between shop‑floor operations and enterprise supply‑chain workflows. Background Manufacturers have spent years trying to close the gap between...

The end of Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025 marks a decisive shift in the Windows ecosystem and creates an immediate, measurable increase in cyber risk for millions of personal users and organizations worldwide. Security updates, feature patches, and official technical support for the operating system have ceased for standard releases, leaving devices that remain on Windows 10 exposed to newly discovered vulnerabilities unless owners take proactive steps. This article examines what the...

Google has quietly pushed another small but consequential AI feature into Gmail: a Gemini‑powered “Help me schedule” tool that suggests meeting times from your Google Calendar and inserts them directly into an email, letting recipients pick a slot and automatically creating the Calendar event for both people. Background / Overview The new “Help me schedule” capability is part of Google’s ongoing effort to weave Gemini AI into core Workspace workflows — Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets and Meet...

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OpenAI’s Sora 2 has arrived in Azure AI Foundry public preview, bringing studio-grade text-to-video generation to a unified, enterprise-ready platform and promising to shorten the gap between imagination and finished visual content for developers, marketers, and creative teams. Background Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft’s developer-centric hub for production-ready generative models, offering a curated catalog of multimodal models and the integration, governance, and security layers enterprises...

Oracle and Microsoft have released a joint integration blueprint designed to pull live shop‑floor telemetry into Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM), using Microsoft Azure IoT Operations at the edge and Microsoft Fabric’s Real‑Time Intelligence in the cloud to create event‑driven automation and faster decision flows across manufacturing supply chains. Background Manufacturers have for years struggled to shrink the latency and friction between operational technology (OT) on...

Microsoft’s pitch that anyone can “learn to design like a pro with AI” is no longer marketing hyperbole—it's a practical, productized reality that places generative design tools directly in the browser and in a free Copilot app, and ties those creative flows into Microsoft 365 for deeper, production-ready workflows. Background Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Designer are now part of a single, expanding ecosystem aimed at lowering the barrier to entry for graphic design and visual content...

Microsoft has open-sourced ExCyTIn‑Bench, a new benchmarking framework that evaluates how well large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI systems perform real-world, multistage cybersecurity investigations inside a simulated Security Operations Center (SOC) — and its design reshapes how defenders and vendors should measure "useful" AI for security. Background Security teams and product buyers have long been frustrated by benchmarks that reward recall of static facts rather than the...

Microsoft’s October Insider waves delivered a concentrated set of experiments — from polished dark‑mode fixes to new AI touches and a visible rethink of the Start menu — giving Insiders a clear snapshot of the company’s near‑term priorities for Windows 11. What shipped in the first half of October 2025 is not a single feature drop but a string of targeted previews across Canary, Dev and Beta channels that together add usable improvements (new keyboard shortcuts, a tiny built‑in editor)...