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Microsoft’s reported licensing deal with Harvard Medical School marks a significant — and strategically revealing — step in how big tech plans to make conversational AI safer for health queries by grafting editorially reviewed medical content onto a generative assistant that lives inside Windows, Office and the wider Copilot family. The move promises clearer, more credible consumer health answers in Copilot, but it also amplifies operational, legal and UX questions that will determine...

Oracle and Wipro announced a targeted migration of Wipro’s mission‑critical HR databases to Oracle Base Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), a move Oracle says accelerated Wipro’s recruitment workflows by more than 50% and slashed payroll batch processing from “over 70 minutes” to 29 minutes — a headline ~60% reduction. Background Wipro is a global IT services and consulting group with a workforce and partner network measured in the hundreds of thousands; the company...

Tokyo-founded NTT DATA’s appointment as the Public Cloud Manager for the Texas Department of Information Resources marks a consequential step in how one of the nation’s largest states will procure, govern and operate public cloud services across multiple hyperscalers. The engagement — announced publicly in October — positions NTT DATA to manage a multi-cloud estate that spans AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and comes with promises of consumption-based...

Microsoft customers across Europe and parts of Africa and the Middle East experienced intermittent Azure Portal and related service disruptions on October 9, 2025, after Microsoft confirmed a capacity loss affecting Azure Front Door (AFD) instances that routed traffic for portal and customer-facing endpoints. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Azure Front Door is a global, edge-based service used to accelerate and protect web applications. On October 9, 2025, Microsoft’s incident telemetry...

Microsoft has quietly begun the largest operational consolidation in GitHub’s post‑acquisition era: a phased migration of GitHub’s production estate onto Microsoft Azure, driven by capacity constraints in GitHub’s Northern Virginia colo footprint and the rising infrastructure demands of AI features such as GitHub Copilot. Background GitHub has grown from an independent startup into the world’s primary developer platform, now serving more than 150 million developers and hosting repositories...

Microsoft’s GitHub has temporarily halted most new feature development while it executes a large-scale, “existential” migration of its core infrastructure onto Microsoft Azure — a program driven by capacity limits in its Virginia data centers and the runaway growth of AI workloads such as GitHub Copilot. Background GitHub started as an independent code-hosting platform and, since Microsoft’s acquisition in 2018, has largely operated with a degree of autonomy. That arrangement has shifted in...

Microsoft Azure customers reported widespread trouble accessing the Azure Portal and other services on October 9, 2025, after Microsoft confirmed a capacity loss in Azure Front Door (AFD) that produced intermittent portal outages and downstream service degradation across parts of Europe and Africa. Background / Overview Azure Front Door is Microsoft’s global edge and application delivery service that sits in front of many Azure-hosted web applications, content delivery endpoints, and even...

GitHub’s engineering team has quietly begun what insiders are calling an “existential” migration: over the next 12 to 24 months the platform will move the bulk of its infrastructure off of its own Virginia-based data centers and onto Microsoft Azure — a change that will reshape GitHub’s operational independence, accelerate Copilot and AI workloads, and force a company-wide pause on many new feature initiatives while engineers focus on the cutover. Overview The move is being framed internally...

On a busy Monday in late November, thousands of Microsoft 365 users worldwide found critical pieces of their productivity stack—Outlook, Exchange Online, and Microsoft Teams—either sluggish or unusable, triggering a fast-moving outage that exposed the resilience limits of cloud-first workflows and raised fresh questions about change management at hyperscale. Background What happened, in brief Early on November 25, 2024, monitoring sites and user reports began showing widespread problems with...

The end of Windows 10 feels like more than a product lifecycle milestone — for many users it is the closing of an era when the PC felt like a private, personal space rather than a portal stitched to the cloud and corporate ecosystems. That sentiment, captured by a recent column reflecting on Windows 10’s retirement, is rooted in concrete shifts: the formal end of mainstream support on October 14, 2025, the arrival of paid and account-tied Extended Security Updates (ESU) options, and the...

A fresh telemetry snapshot from TeamViewer underlines a stark reality for IT teams and consumers alike: even as Microsoft’s official support for Windows 10 reaches its end, a large and operationally meaningful slice of devices will cross into an unsupported state within days — and many organisations are not ready. TeamViewer’s analysis of roughly 250 million anonymised support sessions (July–September 2025) found that more than 40% of endpoints receiving support via TeamViewer still run...

As the calendar approaches Microsoft’s hard deadline for Windows 10 support, businesses are confronting a choice that is at once technical, financial and strategic: move their fleets to Windows 11 now and embrace a higher security baseline — or accept rising risk, temporary mitigation costs and a fast‑shrinking set of supported options. Microsoft’s end‑of‑support date for Windows 10 is a firm anchor in that decision, and the practical implications ripple through inventory, procurement...

Chyron’s Toolbox 4 represents a pragmatic, production‑focused refresh aimed at closing the gap between everyday PC/web content and live broadcast workflows by adding SDI/NDI capture, Windows 11 compatibility, full HD output, and a more flexible content‑grabber toolset that producers can realistically deploy in control rooms and remote production rigs. Background Toolbox has long been Chyron’s lightweight bridge for turning laptop and desktop content into clean, routable sources for video...

For the first time this NFL season, Microsoft Copilot’s Week 5 run of picks came up short — and USA TODAY’s experiment with the AI chatbot now turns a brighter spotlight on what happens when large language models chase live, fast-moving sports news. Copilot finished Week 5 with a 5-9 straight-up record and a season-to-date mark that USA TODAY reported as 44-33-1, and on Oct. 9 a full set of Week 6 predictions — complete with final scores for every game — was published as part of an ongoing...

Monday’s widespread interruption of Microsoft services—affecting Outlook, Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams and other Microsoft 365 components—exposed how deeply businesses and consumers now depend on a single cloud ecosystem and how a single configuration change can cascade into hours of global disruption. Background On November 25, 2024, reports began surfacing across outage trackers and social platforms that users could not access email, calendars and collaboration tools. The spike showed...

Windows 10’s official support clock is about to stop ticking, and the compatibility gatekeeper for Windows 11 — WhyNotWin11 — has just shipped an update that will matter to millions trying to decide whether to upgrade, patch, or replace their PCs. Background / Overview Microsoft has fixed a firm end-of-support date for Windows 10: October 14, 2025. After that date, mainstream security updates, feature and quality rollups, and standard technical support for most Windows 10 SKUs will cease...

Microsoft’s countdown to the end of Windows 10 support has entered its final phase, and the message from Redmond is blunt: after October 14, 2025, Windows 10 PCs will no longer receive routine security or feature updates, leaving many machines exposed unless users upgrade, enroll in the one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or take other protective steps. Background Windows 10 launched in 2015 and has been one of the most widely deployed desktop operating systems in...

Microsoft’s tightening of the Windows 11 out-of‑box experience and the October 14, 2025 end of support for Windows 10 have created a rare alignment of incentives: more Windows users are now actively evaluating desktop Linux as a practical, secure, and often higher‑performing alternative. That shift is already visible in migration conversations, bench tests comparing Ubuntu 25.10 to Windows 11, and the surge of how‑to requests from people who want to escape forced cloud sign‑ins or an...

PC shipments climbed again in the third quarter of 2025 — but the recovery is uneven: global volumes reached roughly 75.8 million units, up about 9.4% year‑on‑year, while regional patterns, tariff shocks, education refresh cycles and a halting enterprise migration to Windows 11 have combined to make the PC refresh story decidedly patchy. Background The global PC market has been under the microscope all year as vendors, enterprises and governments balance a steady replacement cycle against...

Windows 11’s single, OS‑level Location Services toggle is the privacy switch you should flip today if you want to stop Windows and most apps from constantly reporting your precise coordinates to Microsoft and the wider app ecosystem. Turning it off closes the most direct pipeline for on‑device geolocation (GPS, Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth scanning, and the Windows Location Platform) and forces apps to fall back to coarse signals such as IP‑based geolocation — which is far less precise and easier to...