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Apple’s Spotlight just got a serious rival on the desktop: Google’s experimental Search app for Windows — and if Google brings Gemini-style AI to macOS, Apple’s search and assistant strategy could face a full-scale disruption that goes beyond a neat feature war into the fundamentals of how people interact with their Macs. Background / Overview Google quietly launched an experimental “Google app for Windows” through Search Labs that surfaces web results, Drive files, local files, installed...

Update 2.2 for DOOM: The Dark Ages lands with a clear handheld-first focus, adding Steam Deck verification, a new handheld autodetect mode, per-device settings, and explicit performance targets for the latest wave of Windows gaming handhelds — a major step that finally makes the game realistically portable on devices from Valve, ASUS, Lenovo and the new ROG Xbox Ally family. Background DOOM: The Dark Ages arrived as one of id Software’s biggest launches in years and, like many modern AAA...

Apple’s hardware refresh centered on the new M5 chip dominates today’s headlines, but the week’s other major stories — Microsoft’s official end of support for Windows 10 and Walmart’s move to let shoppers buy directly through ChatGPT — are just as consequential for PC users, IT teams and everyday consumers. Background / Overview Apple’s October refresh places the new Apple M5 system-on-chip into three headline products: the 14‑inch MacBook Pro, the iPad Pro, and an updated Vision Pro...

Microsoft’s formal withdrawal of free support for Windows 10 is no longer a warning — it is a live operational event, and Arizona State University’s IT and academic units have already shifted into execution mode to protect students, staff and campus services as that clock stops on October 14, 2025. Background / Overview Windows 10 arrived on July 29, 2015 and, over the last decade, became the default desktop for consumers, businesses and campuses worldwide. Microsoft scheduled and publicly...

Corporate email signatures are one of the few everyday artifacts that travel outside the firewall every time an employee hits Send — and because they travel so often, they quietly magnify both operational friction and strategic opportunity across Microsoft 365 estates. Petri’s recent piece argues that unmanaged signatures are an avoidable drain on IT time and a business risk, and shows how centralization (via tools that integrate with Azure AD) flips signatures from a low-priority nuisance...

Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 Patchday left enterprise defenders and Office users with urgent work: the monthly security refresh fixed a large cluster of Office parser and document‑handling vulnerabilities — including high‑impact Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaws in Word and Excel — while the broader October package also closed multiple zero‑days and removed a legacy kernel driver (ltmdm64.sys) that will break modem/fax hardware. The BornCity roundup of the Office updates explains which...

Big changes to Redis’s licensing in 2024 set off a rapid chain of events that left organizations evaluating alternatives — and for many, the answer has been Valkey, a Linux Foundation–hosted fork that preserves the original BSD licensing while pursuing aggressive performance and operational changes of its own. Recent industry writing highlights practical ways to run Valkey in Microsoft environments — notably on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and inside Microsoft’s .NET Aspire developer...

Microsoft’s official Windows account has dropped a short, teasing line—“Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday”—and it landed amid the end-of-support milestone for Windows 10, instantly sparking speculation that Microsoft is about to push a voice-first, AI-driven shift in how people interact with Windows. At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security has released an urgent intelligence advisory alleging cartel-linked networks...

Microsoft’s cheeky social tease — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday” — landed at the exact moment Microsoft closed the decade‑long chapter on Windows 10, and the short message has already reshaped conversation about the platform’s next act: a clear nudge toward hands‑free, AI‑driven, multimodal computing centered on Copilot and voice. Background Windows 10 reaches end of mainstream support October 14, 2025 marked a hard...

A sudden uptick in searches for “when does Windows 12 come out” — alongside a parallel spike for the phrase “hate Windows 11” — has crystallized a brewing moment of user frustration and market anxiety as Windows 10 reaches its scheduled end of support and Microsoft shifts its product cadence toward incremental Windows 11 updates and deeper AI integration. UX agency Tenscope’s Google Trends analysis captured in recent reporting shows the search spikes and captures the mood: a portion of the...

Microsoft’s short, cheeky tease — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday” — is a clear invitation to expect a hands‑free, voice‑forward evolution of Windows rather than a routine patch or cosmetic refresh. Background Microsoft’s tease landed at a consequential moment: mainstream support for Windows 10 ended on October 14, 2025, removing routine security updates and standard technical assistance for most consumer editions. That...

Microsoft’s short, teasing post on X — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday” — landed on the same week Windows 10 reached its long‑expected end of support, and it has instantly refocused attention away from the sunset of a beloved OS and toward a concrete step in Microsoft’s years‑long push to make Windows more voice‑centric, AI‑driven, and context aware. Background Microsoft officially ended mainstream updates and free support...

October 14, 2025 did not merely mark the end of Windows 10’s free support — it was the day Microsoft quietly exited support for a host of other high-impact, perpetual‑license products too, leaving administrators juggling migrations, emergency extended‑security programs, and a sudden spike in compliance and attack‑surface risk. Background Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar has long been predictable: fixed end‑of‑support dates, followed by staged migrations toward newer products and subscription...

Sunrise Technologies has deployed a production AI agent called Sales Order Assistant for Jaipur Living, embedding a Copilot‑style assistant into Microsoft Teams that surfaces order and shipment information from Dynamics 365 — a narrowly scoped, in‑flow automation designed to reduce repetitive work for customer service representatives and accelerate order resolution. Background Jaipur Living is a global rug and home‑goods business that publicly cites a large artisan network — commonly...

Microsoft’s short, teasing post — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday” — landed like a drumbeat across the tech press and set off immediate speculation that Microsoft is preparing a major, voice‑forward shift in how Windows users interact with their PCs. Background / Overview Microsoft’s social tease arrived at a meaningful moment: mainstream support for Windows 10 concluded in mid‑October 2025, leaving millions of systems at a...

Microsoft’s September/October servicing cycle has produced a high-impact collision between a Windows Server 2025 cumulative update and enterprise identity tooling, leaving some organizations with partial directory synchronization and dangerous AD replication failures — a problem Microsoft now lists in its update guidance and that has forced administrators to adopt emergency mitigations, careful monitoring, and cautious change control. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped the September 9...

Oracle and Microsoft announced on October 15, 2025, a joint integration blueprint that connects Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) with Microsoft Azure IoT Operations and Microsoft Fabric, promising to pull live shop-floor telemetry into enterprise workflows to accelerate decision-making, reduce downtime, and automate core supply-chain events. Background The announcement was made during Oracle AI World and represents a continuation of both vendors' recent push to combine...

Microsoft’s scheduled end of free support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 is now reality, and security experts warn the practical effect is a measurable rise in cyber risk for millions of home users, small businesses, schools and parts of public infrastructure that continue to run the OS without a formal support contract or Extended Security Updates (ESU). Microsoft’s lifecycle pages confirm the cutoff and the options available to users; meanwhile consumer surveys and industry telemetry...

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...