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Microsoft has quietly begun testing a new way to make conversations with Copilot feel more human: animated, stylized “portraits” that move and lip‑sync in real time while you speak. The experimental feature, Copilot Portraits, is rolling out through Copilot Labs to a limited set of users in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada and pairs selectable 2D human‑like avatars with Copilot’s voice responses to produce synchronized facial expressions, head motion, and lip movement during...

CellTrust’s entry into the Microsoft Security Store Partner Ecosystem today formalizes a deeper alignment between a specialist in regulated mobile communications and Microsoft’s rapidly evolving security marketplace—and it matters for any organization that relies on mobile messaging, voice, and chat as part of its compliance footprint. Background / Overview CellTrust, a Scottsdale-based security vendor, has published its SL2 Enterprise Capture and SL2 for Microsoft Intune solutions to the...

Microsoft began the staged global rollout of Windows 11, version 25H2, on September 30, 2025 — a deliberately light, operational update delivered primarily as a small enablement package for devices already on 24H2, with full ISO media and administrative templates published for imaging teams and enterprise admins. Background Microsoft has continued the pattern established over recent years: most feature binaries are shipped through the servicing channel and held in a dormant state inside the...

Windows 11 does not expose CPU temperatures in its user interface, but monitoring your processor’s thermal behavior is essential — whether you’re troubleshooting sudden slowdowns, protecting a high-end Intel Core i9 build under heavy GPU load, or validating a new cooler after an upgrade. This guide walks through four reliable methods to check CPU temperature on Windows 11 (including a BIOS fallback and PowerShell), explains what the numbers mean, verifies technical limits and sensor quirks...

Thirty years after its debut, a fresh explanation from veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has clarified a long‑running mystery about how the Windows 95 installer actually worked — and why Microsoft chose to bootstrap setup with a miniature Windows 3.1 instead of trying to ship a tiny, 32‑bit version of Windows 95 itself. This was not an aesthetic oversight but a deliberate, pragmatic engineering tradeoff driven by reuse, schedule pressure, media constraints, and a desire to minimize...

Microsoft has begun the staged rollout of Windows 11, version 25H2 — a quiet, operational update delivered primarily as a small enablement package that activates features already staged in the 24H2 servicing branch, resets the support clock for devices that adopt it, and removes a few long‑deprecated legacy components rather than delivering a headline-grabbing set of new consumer features. Background / Overview Microsoft’s engineering and servicing model for Windows 11 has settled into a...

Microsoft has started testing animated, responsive faces for Copilot voice chats, rolling out a new Copilot Labs experiment called Portraits that pairs stylized human avatars with Copilot’s spoken responses to produce real‑time facial expressions, head movements and lip sync during voice conversations. Background Microsoft’s Copilot has moved quickly from a text‑first assistant to a multimodal platform: text, images, audio and now animated visual personas. The new Portraits experiment is the...

Microsoft is testing a new Copilot Labs feature called Copilot Portraits — a curated set of stylized, real‑time animated “talking head” portraits that lip‑sync, blink, nod and show micro‑expressions during voice conversations — and the experiment is deliberately gated, age‑restricted and limited to a small preview of Copilot Pro users in a handful of countries as Microsoft gathers feedback and tunes safety controls. Background Microsoft’s Copilot has been evolving quickly from a...

CrowdStrike’s appointment of Amjad Hussain as Chief Resilience Officer signals a deliberate shift from reactive security posture to enterprise-wide reliability and operational engineering — a move that expands the company’s leadership playbook as it leans into AI-powered, cloud-native protection. Overview CrowdStrike today named Amjad Hussain as its new Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), a senior role reporting directly to CEO and co‑founder George Kurtz and charged with embedding resilience...

CellTrust’s announcement that it has joined the Microsoft Security Store Partner Ecosystem marks a strategic step for a company long focused on secure, regulated mobile communications — and it also underscores a larger shift in how enterprises will discover, procure, and operate security tools that integrate directly with Microsoft’s expanding AI-first security platform. Background / Overview CellTrust, a Scottsdale-based vendor known for its SL2 secure capture platform for mobile...

Windows exposes a quick, one‑click way to wipe the device’s stored location samples, but that simple “Clear” button is only part of the story — Microsoft has recently changed how Windows stores location data, and a full privacy cleanup requires checking both the device and your Microsoft account (and understanding what the OS clear actually removes). Background / Overview Windows has supported location services for years to enable maps, Find My Device, contextual weather, and app features...

Ein einzelnes Foto — drei mit Computern vollgepackte Paletten — entlarvt in wenigen Sekunden, wie ein technischer Entscheid Millionen von Geräten in Richtung Elektroschrott treiben kann und warum das Support‑Ende von Windows 10 weit über den Bildschirmrand hinaus Konsequenzen hat. Hintergrund / Überblick Microsoft hat das Support‑Ende von Windows 10 offiziell auf den 14. Oktober 2025 terminiert; danach liefert das Unternehmen keine regulären Sicherheits‑ und Funktionsupdates mehr. Für Nutzer...

Phone Link has quietly matured from a convenience feature into a core productivity layer for Windows users, and in 2025 it is shaping how millions of people collapse the friction between smartphones and PCs into a single, continuous workflow. Phone Link (aka.ms/PhoneLink as a Microsoft shortlink) now offers messaging, calls, photo and file transfers, app streaming, Start‑menu integration, and quick pairing via QR — and when configured correctly it removes the time‑wasting device boundaries...

Capcom has quietly moved the Monster Hunter franchise a step closer to the post–Windows 10 era: starting October 14, 2025, the publisher will no longer guarantee that Monster Hunter: World, Monster Hunter Rise, and Monster Hunter Wilds will run on machines still running Windows 10, a change tied directly to Microsoft's end-of-support date for that operating system. Background Microsoft’s consumer support window for Windows 10 closes on October 14, 2025, after which the company stops issuing...

October’s real scare isn’t haunted houses or costumed ghouls — it’s the quiet moment when millions of previously serviceable PCs become unsupported, exposed to new threats and practical obsolescence unless owners act quickly and deliberately. Background / Overview Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, meaning routine security patches, feature updates and standard technical assistance will stop for most editions of the OS on that date. This is...

Microsoft will stop delivering regular security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, but a relatively simple consumer option called Extended Security Updates (ESU) lets most home users extend critical and important security patches for one more year — and in many cases you can get that extra year for free by signing in with a Microsoft account and enabling a short list of settings. Background Windows 10 debuted in 2015 and has been a mainstay on hundreds of millions of PCs...

Microsoft has quietly shipped Windows 11 version 25H2 as an intentionally light, operational update: a small enablement package that flips on features already staged across the 24H2 servicing branch rather than delivering a dramatic set of new consumer-facing capabilities. This year’s annual upgrade is best described as housekeeping — a lifecycle reset, a security‑first consolidation, and a modest cleanup of legacy tooling — and that approach explains why many users see only subtle changes...

Microsoft has confirmed a set of known issues in Windows 11 version 25H2, the 2025 feature update now rolling out to consumer and enterprise devices, and some of those bugs carry practical impact for media playback, update installation workflows, and certain device architectures. Microsoft’s release-health notices list the problems, and community reporting has already surfaced real-world encounters — meaning IT teams and power users should plan mitigations before attempting a broad...

Satya Nadella’s confession — that he is “haunted” by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and fears artificial intelligence could render Microsoft’s flagship franchises irrelevant — is not mere corporate drama. It marks a strategic alarm bell fired from the center of one of the world’s most valuable companies as it pours unprecedented capital and organizational focus into AI while simultaneously shrinking headcount and reshaping its product roadmap. Microsoft’s 2025 pivot is simultaneously a...

Aravind Srinivas's offhand line — "My mom wanted me at Google" — landed like a cultural gauntlet: a founder born in India and raised within the global tech orbit publicly challenging a long-entrenched narrative that Indians belong at the helms of other people's companies, not at the starting line of the next generation of global giants. His comments, delivered during a recent interview and amplified across business press, arrive at a pivotal moment for both Perplexity — the AI search startup...