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Microsoft’s September update for Copilot Studio pushes the platform from “authoring copilots” toward a full enterprise-grade agent runtime — adding UI automation, richer channel deployment, testing tools, code execution, lifecycle tooling, and tighter admin controls that together make Copilot Studio a serious candidate for production automation across customer support, back‑office, and developer scenarios. Background Copilot Studio sits inside the Power Platform as Microsoft’s low‑code...

Microsoft’s decision to end support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 on October 14, 2025, is now in effect — a hard cut that stops security updates, bug fixes, and official technical support for those perpetual (buy‑once) Office releases, and forces organizations and users to choose between migrating to Microsoft 365, shifting to a supported on‑premises option (Office LTSC 2024), or accepting growing security and compliance risk. Background Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar makes product support...

The Xbox ecosystem has its first visible step toward a long‑requested quality‑of‑life feature — a cloud save upload indicator — but early hands‑on testing in the Xbox Insider channel shows the experience is rough, incomplete, and still a long way from the polished cross‑device synchronization gamers expect. Background / Overview Microsoft’s push to make Xbox experiences roam between console, PC, cloud, and handheld hardware has accelerated throughout 2025. The company has layered several...

Spotify’s quiet pairing with ChatGPT has turned what used to be a fiddly, hour‑long playlist hunt into a single conversational workflow — mention the mood, era, or vibe, tap to connect your account, and a curated playlist appears in your Spotify library ready to stream. Background / Overview Spotify and OpenAI have moved beyond topic‑level experimentation and rolled out a formal integration that embeds Spotify as an app inside ChatGPT conversations. The feature is opt‑in: when you mention...

AI is turning Excel from a gatekept specialist tool into a practical, learnable application—one where novices can move from confusion to confident analysis in a fraction of the time previously required. Overview The last two years have seen a rapid infusion of generative and context-aware AI into Excel’s user experience. From formula completion that proposes full formulas as you type, to Copilot and Agent Mode that can run multi-step workflows and extract data from PDFs, AI is reshaping how...

Oracle and Microsoft announced a joint integration blueprint at Oracle AI World on October 15, 2025, aimed at linking Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) with Microsoft Azure IoT Operations and Microsoft Fabric Real‑Time Intelligence to pull live shop‑floor telemetry into enterprise supply‑chain workflows, automate business events, and deliver prescriptive integration guidance for manufacturers. Background Manufacturers today operate in an environment where speed...

Oracle and Microsoft’s collaboration just crossed a new threshold: Oracle’s managed database services are now running inside Microsoft Azure datacenters at scale, delivering low‑latency access to Exadata‑class performance, new AI‑centric database offerings, and a formal reseller path for partners via the Azure Marketplace — a package designed to speed migrations while keeping AI “near the data.” Background Since the partnership’s early experiments, the core idea has been pragmatic: let...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday landed like a hammer on an already fraught moment for Windows administrators: the last routine cumulative update that includes Windows 10 coincided with a sweeping security roll-up that patched scores of vulnerabilities, closed multiple zero‑day exploits, and — in a rare but consequential move — removed a legacy kernel driver from the in‑box Windows image rather than attempt a risky in‑place patch. Background October’s release is important for two...

Microsoft’s decade-long stewardship of Windows 10 reached its scheduled endpoint on October 14, 2025, a hard lifecycle cutoff that removes Microsoft’s routine security patches, feature updates, and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions — creating a new and measurable cybersecurity risk for households, schools, small businesses and public institutions that continue to run the platform. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in 2015 and, for most of the past decade...

Windows 10’s official support window has closed — but that does not mean every user must immediately switch to Windows 11; there are practical, staged options that preserve security or buy time while you plan a safe migration. Microsoft ended mainstream security and feature updates for most Windows 10 editions on October 14, 2025, and the company has likewise set a servicing endpoint for Windows 11 version 23H2 on November 11, 2025, after which Home and Pro devices on 23H2 must move to a...

If your microphone suddenly disappears from Windows 11 or refuses to pick up sound, the problem is almost always one of a handful of easy-to-diagnose causes — and in most cases you can fix it yourself in minutes. This guide distills practical, tested steps to get a microphone working again on Windows 11: from quick hardware checks to permissions, driver updates, audio enhancements, optional Windows updates, and advanced troubleshooting. It summarizes the common fixes and explains why each...

SIPPIO’s hire of Mat Batterbee is a clear signal that the company intends to convert recent product and channel momentum into scaled partner revenue—and it arrives at a pivotal moment for Microsoft Teams voice, Operator Connect, and the broader cloud communications market. The appointment, announced on October 15, 2025, names Batterbee as SIPPIO’s Director of Strategy and Alliances with a mandate to expand the partner ecosystem, drive profitable go-to-market motions, and lead quarterly...

Schleswig‑Holstein has completed a landmark migration, moving its entire state email and calendar estate off Microsoft Exchange and Outlook and onto an open‑source stack centered on Open‑Xchange and Mozilla Thunderbird — a six‑month cutover that the government says touched more than 40,000 mailboxes and well over 100 million emails and calendar entries, and which it frames as a decisive step toward digital sovereignty. Background Schleswig‑Holstein’s migration is the most visible phase of a...

Pennsylvanians have been explicitly warned by the Cybersecurity Association of Pennsylvania (PennCyber) that the official end of support for Windows 10 significantly raises the risk of cyberattacks for home users, schools, small businesses and local governments — and that action is now required to avoid preventable compromise. The advisory, published as Microsoft’s lifecycle clock reached its October 14, 2025 cutoff, frames the end-of-support milestone as a practical change in threat...

WinDirStat’s familiar treemap has long been the go‑to for visualizing disk usage on Windows, but a new generation of disk usage visualizers and cleanup utilities — from fast Windows‑only scanners to modern, cross‑platform GUI tools — now offers better performance, cleaner interfaces, and broader feature sets for reclaiming storage. This feature examines ten capable alternatives, explains where each tool shines, and gives practical, vetted guidance for choosing the right disk analyzer for...

Oracle and Microsoft’s joint blueprint promises to pull live shop‑floor signals into enterprise workflows — a practical move toward real‑time supply chain automation that could shorten decision cycles, reduce downtime, and make factory data actionable across Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM. Background Oracle announced at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas that it has collaborated with Microsoft to publish an integration blueprint connecting Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) with Azure...

Microsoft’s public preview of the Microsoft Agent Framework marks a major step in advancing the company’s Agentic DevOps vision: a unified, standards-first SDK and runtime that promises to take intelligent agents from isolated copilots to governed, production-ready actors integrated across the software development lifecycle. The announcement formalizes a migration path from research prototypes and scattered copilots toward long-running, auditable agent fleets that can collaborate, call...

Cloud‑managed remote mailboxes are now being promoted from preview into production-ready use, delivering the long‑promised ability to manage Exchange‑specific attributes for directory‑synced mailboxes directly in the cloud and removing one of the most common reasons organizations kept a “last Exchange server” on‑premises. This change introduces a single, explicit toggle — IsExchangeCloudManaged — that transfers the Source of Authority (SOA) for mailbox attributes to Exchange Online, and it...

Fourteen years after Windows 10 first shipped and exactly on schedule, Microsoft pulled the plug on mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — and that has a lot of users suddenly asking whether their machines can actually be upgraded to Windows 11 despite a “This PC can’t run Windows 11” warning. The short answer: many machines flagged as incompatible are fixable without replacing major hardware, but the path matters — some fixes are safe and supported, and others are...

Windows 11 ships with a surprisingly capable task manager built into the OS: Microsoft To Do quietly provides a full-featured, ad‑free, cross‑platform way to capture, plan, and finish work without the friction that pushes many people toward paid or bloated third‑party tools. What looks at first like a lightweight checklist app hides a serious productivity toolkit — My Day, smart suggestions, Outlook and Planner sync, shared lists, subtasks, file attachments, and predictable cloud syncing —...