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Microsoft’s Copilot is being positioned to give safer, more practitioner‑like answers to health questions by incorporating licensed content from Harvard Health Publishing — a move that industry reporting says will be paid for with a licensing fee and rolled into Copilot as part of Microsoft’s broader strategy to diversify AI models and reduce hallucination risk. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot family has expanded rapidly from productivity helpers into verticalized assistants for...

Microsoft has confirmed that the OneNote for Windows 10 app will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, after which the UWP “OneNote for Windows 10” client will switch to a read‑only state and will no longer receive updates, fixes, or sync services. Background Microsoft’s OneNote story on Windows has been fragmented for years: a modern UWP app shipped with Windows 10, a long‑lived desktop client historically called OneNote 2016 (now simply “OneNote” or “OneNote on Windows”), plus web and...

Windows 10’s official support clock is about to stop ticking, and for millions of users the practical question is simple: upgrade to Windows 11 now — or accept growing security, compatibility and performance risk. Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end-of-support deadline means Windows 10 will no longer receive security updates, bug fixes or routine technical help; staying on that platform after the cutoff turns an otherwise serviceable PC into a potential attack vector. Background: what “end of...

Microsoft has quietly moved critical phone controls into the heart of Windows 11’s user experience by embedding Phone Link directly into the Start menu, giving users one‑tap access to messages, calls, recent photos and device status without launching the standalone Phone Link app. This change, rolling out through Insider channels and now appearing in Canary Preview Build 27965, transforms the Start menu from a static app launcher into a lightweight cross‑device hub aimed at reducing context...

Microsoft’s latest Insider flight, Windows 11 Build 27965 (Canary Channel), delivers the most substantial Start menu overhaul since Windows 11’s debut — a single, scrollable Start surface with new browsing modes, a responsive layout that adapts to screen size, and deeper Phone Link integration — while also introducing platform-level packaging changes and a small, open-source command-line editor aimed at developers and administrators. Background Microsoft has been iterating on the Windows 11...

OpenText has expanded the availability of its AI-powered security offering, OpenText Core Threat Detection and Response, with deeper, native integrations into the Microsoft security stack — notably Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Entra ID, and Microsoft Security Copilot — and has made the solution more accessible to Microsoft-centric customers through Azure and the Azure Marketplace. Background OpenText first positioned Core Threat Detection and Response as the center of its...

Flyoobe 1.30.513 refines the project’s long-running mission—installing and shaping Windows 11 on machines Microsoft classifies as “unsupported”—by polishing the Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE), adding an on‑device guided assistant called Winpilot, reorganizing extensions for clearer post‑setup workflows, and fixing several edge-case bugs while preserving the core bypass capabilities that let technicians and enthusiasts proceed past TPM, Secure Boot, CPU, and RAM gates. Background / Overview...

The recent RNZ Tech segment with Bill Bennett pulled together three separate but tightly connected stories that matter to anyone who buys phone plans, reads news on the web, or still uses Windows 10: New Zealand’s Commerce Commission research shows consumers struggle to get the information they need to pick the right phone plan; Google, in a court filing, conceded that the open web — at least the ad-funded part of it — is rapidly declining; and Microsoft’s scheduled end of support for...

Microsoft’s Copilot is set to draw on Harvard Medical School’s consumer-facing content, a move Reuters reported on October 8, 2025 that companies and clinicians say could strengthen the assistant’s medical answers — but which leaves critical questions about scope, provenance, liability and implementation unanswered. Background Microsoft and Harvard Medical School: what was reported Microsoft is reported to have reached a licensing arrangement with Harvard Medical School to allow the company...

Microsoft is preparing to fold curated Harvard Health Publishing content into Copilot so that health-related questions return answers grounded in a trusted medical publisher — a move reported by major outlets that signals both a tactical effort to improve clinical accuracy and a strategic push to diversify Microsoft’s AI stack away from single-vendor dependence. Background Microsoft’s Copilot family has rapidly expanded from productivity assistants into vertical copilots tailored for...

Microsoft’s reported decision to license Harvard Health Publishing content for Copilot marks a consequential shift in how the company is trying to make its AI assistant safer and more authoritative on health matters — and it underscores a broader strategy to diversify away from single‑vendor model dependence, especially OpenAI. Background Microsoft’s Copilot family — spanning consumer mobile and desktop assistants, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and clinical products like Dragon Copilot — has been...

Microsoft’s internal rollout of the Licensing Navigator — an AI agent built on Azure AI Services and authored in Microsoft Copilot Studio — is a striking demonstration of how enterprise AI can turn slow, specialist-led tasks into near-instant, context‑aware guidance for employees. According to the company, what once took an hour of manual research can now be resolved in seconds using a retrieval‑grounded Copilot agent that synthesizes policy, cites canonical documents, and guides users...

CrowdStrike has published fixes for two medium‑severity vulnerabilities in the Falcon Windows Sensor that could allow an attacker who already has local code execution to delete arbitrary files on Windows hosts — the issues are tracked as CVE‑2025‑42701 (a TOCTOU race condition) and CVE‑2025‑42706 (a logic/origin‑validation bug). Overview These two flaws affect the Falcon sensor for Windows and were responsibly reported through CrowdStrike’s bug bounty program. Both vulnerabilities are...

Microsoft’s latest Insider flights lock down the last easy in‑setup escapes: the Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) in recent Windows 11 Insider builds now requires an active internet connection and a Microsoft account on the default consumer path, and Microsoft has explicitly removed several of the community’s low‑friction tricks that previously produced a local, offline user during installation. Background / Overview Windows has been nudging users toward online, identity‑anchored setups for...

Microsoft’s announced cut-off for Windows 10 support has turned what should have been a routine lifecycle milestone into a political, technical and environmental firestorm—one that risks leaving hundreds of millions of usable PCs exposed to attacks, forcing costly refresh cycles in the public sector, and generating a very large wave of e‑waste unless governments, vendors and IT teams intervene with pragmatic policies and workarounds. Background / Overview Microsoft has set a fixed...

Windows 11’s 25H2 rollout landed with a familiar and unwelcome companion: early, narrowly scoped but consequential regressions that are already disrupting media playback workflows and manual update installs for a subset of users and organizations. Background / Overview Windows 11, version 25H2 (the “Windows 11 2025 Update”) is being delivered primarily as an enablement package layered on top of the 24H2 servicing branch. That delivery model means the update flips on features already present...

As Microsoft’s Windows 10 support deadline arrives, a fresh telemetry snapshot from TeamViewer shows that a substantial share of devices remain on Windows 10 — an operational and cybersecurity situation that demands urgent, organised action from IT teams and consumers alike. TeamViewer’s analysis of roughly 250 million anonymised support sessions between July and September 2025 found that more than 40% of endpoints it connected to were still running Windows 10, and the vendor is pitching its...

Microsoft’s consumer-facing post “Unlock productivity with AI automation” frames Copilot as an everyday, approachable assistant designed to remove friction from routine tasks and fold generative AI directly into how people plan, write, and organize their lives. The company positions Copilot as both immediately useful — for grocery lists, drafts, and calendar help — and deeply integrated when paired with a Microsoft 365 subscription that unlocks in‑app automation across Word, Excel, Outlook...

GitHub has quietly launched one of the most consequential infrastructure reorganizations in its post‑acquisition history: a full-scale migration of its production estate onto Microsoft Azure that GitHub engineers and Microsoft leaders describe as necessary to scale AI services like Copilot and to resolve capacity constraints in the company’s Virginia data centers. Background and overview GitHub’s shift to Azure is framed internally as a near‑term, high‑priority program with aggressive...

Microsoft’s reported agreement to surface Harvard Health Publishing content inside Copilot marks a clear inflection point in the race to make everyday AI assistants safer, more authoritative, and more commercially mature in healthcare — but it also raises urgent questions about scope, liability, and how trusted health content is actually integrated into large language model (LLM) systems. Background Microsoft has spent the last three years aggressively folding generative AI into its...