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UiPath’s agentic automation platform has taken a concrete step toward native cross‑cloud AI orchestration by integrating Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry capabilities — a move that wires Microsoft’s model catalog, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tooling, and Copilot experiences into UiPath’s Maestro orchestration, with the explicit goal of letting enterprise teams run mixed vendor AI agents inside governed, auditable workflows. Background / Overview Enterprises are rapidly shifting from isolated AI...

Cisco’s latest WebexOne rollout marks a deliberate shift from “AI that helps” to AI that acts — a suite of agentic capabilities spanning the Webex App, collaboration devices, and Control Hub that are explicitly designed to let digital agents execute routine work, coordinate follow‑up, and assist IT operations while keeping governance and security front and center. Background / Overview Cisco framed the announcements at WebexOne as part of a broader strategy it calls Connected Intelligence...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot experiment is trying to make talking to an AI feel less like tapping keys and more like having a conversation—with an animated face to match—but the early rollout reveals the thin line between approachable design and uncanny, privacy‑heavy interaction that many users may find off‑putting. Background Microsoft announced a new Copilot Labs experiment called Portraits that places a stylized, animated face in the Copilot voice experience so users can speak, listen, and...

NASA’s Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) dataset is now hosted on Microsoft’s Planetary Computer, bringing a multi-petabyte, harmonized archive of 30‑meter, analysis‑ready surface reflectance imagery into a scalable Azure environment and making high‑frequency Earth observation workflows easier to run at cloud scale. This new availability lets researchers, developers, and enterprise teams combine HLS’s frequent revisit, harmonized spectral response, and standardized Cloud‑Optimized...

Fortude’s new Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization is more than a plaque in the partner hall of fame — it’s a concrete market signal that the company has met Microsoft’s structured, measurable bar for delivering enterprise analytics on Azure, and it comes at a moment when Microsoft’s data stack (Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Databricks) is becoming the de facto architecture for large-scale analytics programs...

Microsoft’s decision to stop routine support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, is now official — a hard deadline that forces choices for every home user, small business, and IT department still running the decade‑old platform. Microsoft will cease issuing regular OS security updates, feature and quality updates, and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions on that date; the company is offering a narrowly scoped set of transition paths — a one‑year consumer Extended...

Microsoft’s free Windows 11 paths remain the safest route for most users—but with Windows 10 reaching end of support, know the official options, the simple how‑tos, and the real risks if you try to bypass Microsoft’s checks with third‑party tools like Rufus. Background / Overview Microsoft has fixed October 14, 2025 as the end‑of‑support date for Windows 10: after that day Home, Pro, Enterprise and other mainstream editions stop receiving security updates, feature updates, and official...

LockBit 5.0 has reappeared as a materially different ransomware threat — one built to strike Windows, Linux and VMware ESXi hosts in the same campaign — and its arrival forces organizations to reframe backups, hypervisors and incident response as crown-jewel assets rather than secondary targets. Background LockBit is a long‑running Ransomware‑as‑a‑Service (RaaS) operation that grew from early tooling first seen in 2019 into one of the most prolific extortion networks of the last half‑decade...

Microsoft has begun the public rollout of Windows 11 version 25H2, a lightweight enablement-package update that mostly resets the support clock and prepares devices for future feature drops rather than delivering a sweeping set of new consumer features. Background Microsoft’s annual feature-update cadence for Windows 11 continues to favor incremental, service-driven releases. Version 25H2 is being delivered as an enablement package (eKB) — essentially a small “switch” that activates features...

Microsoft published KB5065789 on September 29, 2025 as an optional Release Preview package for Windows 11 that stitches together a set of targeted quality fixes—most notably a remediation for DRM/HDCP‑protected playback failures that affected some Blu‑ray, DVD and digital‑TV applications—while continuing to stage several AI, accessibility and UI polishes behind gradual, region‑ and license‑gated rollouts. Background / Overview KB5065789 arrives as a non‑security, preview cumulative for the...

Microsoft has added xAI’s Grok 4 Fast models to Azure AI Foundry, a move confirmed by Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry blog and publicly acknowledged in a terse exchange between Elon Musk and Satya Nadella that underscored the strategic optics of hosting third‑party frontier models on hyperscaler platforms. Background / Overview Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft’s curated model catalog and hosting surface designed to let enterprises pick, deploy, govern, and operate third‑party and Microsoft models...

Fortude’s announcement that it has been awarded the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization marks a significant step in the company’s Microsoft partnership trajectory and confirms that its analytics practice has met Microsoft’s prescriptive performance, skilling, and audit gates. Background Since Microsoft overhauled its partner framework, the Solutions Partner designations and workload-specific specializations have become the industry’s primary, measurable signals of verified Azure...

Microsoft has quietly reunited the bulk of Windows engineering under a single leadership umbrella in a strategic reorganization intended to accelerate an “Agentic OS” roadmap — a move that collapses several years of platform/client splits and signals Microsoft’s intent to bake on‑device and hybrid AI deeper into Windows. Background For much of the past decade Microsoft ran Windows engineering across two broad silos: client and experience teams on one side, and many low‑level platform teams...

Windows 11’s 2025 feature update, version 25H2, has begun rolling out — but don’t expect flashy new bells and whistles. This release is a deliberately light, enablement-style update that flips on features already staged in the 24H2 servicing branch, adds a couple of practical platform advances (notably native Wi‑Fi 7 readiness and a Group Policy for removing selected preinstalled Store apps), tightens a few security-development controls, and removes legacy tooling such as PowerShell 2.0 and...

Capcom has told PC players it will no longer guarantee that three major Monster Hunter titles — Monster Hunter: World, Monster Hunter Rise, and Monster Hunter Wilds — will run on Windows 10 systems once Microsoft’s official end‑of‑support date for that OS arrives on October 14, 2025, a support change that shifts practical compatibility risk onto players who remain on the legacy platform. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle policy sets a hard cutoff: Windows 10 will reach end of...

Microsoft’s surprisingly small but meaningful reversal — bringing a familiar Windows 10-style feature back into Windows 11 — is quietly rolling out to Insiders and it matters more than its nostalgia alone suggests. What began as a community leak has become a verified Insider experiment: Windows 11 now includes a native “video wallpaper” capability and a refreshed Settings “About” experience with PC spec cards, restoring convenience that many users missed after the Windows 10 → Windows 11...

Microsoft has quietly started testing a native “video wallpaper” feature in Windows 11 Insider preview builds — a modern revival of Vista’s DreamScene that lets you set common video files (MP4, MKV, MOV and others) as looping desktop backgrounds directly from Settings or File Explorer. Background Windows personalization has long been a battleground between built‑in features and vibrant third‑party ecosystems. Microsoft experimented with animated desktop backgrounds before, most notably with...

Microsoft has acknowledged multiple early regressions tied to the September servicing cycle even as Windows 11 version 25H2 begins rolling out, with two confirmed, actionable issues: a DRM/HDCP playback regression that can break Blu‑ray/DVD and some digital‑TV applications, and a separate WUSA (.msu) installation bug that can fail when installing updates from a network share containing multiple .msu files. Background / Overview Windows 11 version 25H2 is being distributed as an enablement...

If you’re still running Windows 10 on a personal PC or in a small business environment, a hard deadline is approaching: Microsoft will stop delivering free security patches, feature updates, and technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — and that change has immediate operational and security consequences that require planning now. Background: what "end of support" actually means Microsoft’s phrase “end of support” is precise: after October 14, 2025, standard editions of Windows...

My PC stopped being an attention circus when I deliberately redesigned the desktop to make distractions a choice, not the default. Background The problem is familiar: modern Windows desktops are feature-rich and noisy. Notifications, taskbar badges and app windows compete for attention the moment you sit down. XDA’s practical walkthrough of a distraction-proof Windows setup captures that tension and offers a concise toolkit — virtual desktops, automated Do Not Disturb, focused writing apps...