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Hogwarts Legacy has quietly joined the growing roster of titles supported by Xbox Play Anywhere, meaning players who previously purchased the digital Xbox version can now access the Windows PC build at no additional cost — with progress, achievements, and most DLC following across devices. This is a notable reversal of the long habit of platform-locked PC/Xbox purchases, and it arrives at a moment when Microsoft is actively reorienting Xbox and Windows toward a single, device-agnostic gaming...

I switched my usual VM workflow to Windows Sandbox for a week, ran a steady stream of third‑party apps, and came away impressed — but not uncritical — about how Microsoft’s lightweight, disposable virtualization tool changes the way enthusiasts and developers can test software on Windows. Windows Sandbox delivers a fast, secure, throwaway Windows session that boots in seconds, reuses the host’s OS files to keep storage and memory costs low, and discards every change when the window closes —...

If your Windows 10 PC is being told it’s “ineligible” for Windows 11, the fix may be a single BIOS/UEFI switch — enabling your machine’s TPM (Trusted Platform Module) support — and in many cases that alone will make the system eligible for the free Windows 11 upgrade before Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025. This piece walks through exactly what TPM is, why Microsoft requires it, how to check for and enable TPM (including the Intel PTT and AMD fTPM options you’ll see in many UEFI...

Microsoft has quietly updated the Windows 11 Media Creation Tool so that a freshly created install media now includes a much more recent 24H2 build, cutting the number of cumulative updates users must download after a clean install — and doing so just as Windows 11 version 25H2 images begin appearing on Microsoft’s servers. This change improves the out-of-the-box update posture for clean installs, but it also raises practical questions for home users and IT teams: which build does the tool...

Microsoft has moved Wi‑Fi 7 out of the consumer sandbox and into enterprise playbooks: Windows 11 (version 24H2) now exposes enterprise-grade 802.11be capabilities for managed environments, including mandatory WPA3‑Enterprise authentication, enhanced roaming primitives (OKC and 802.11r/FT), and the performance features enterprises care about (Multi‑Link Operation, 320 MHz in 6 GHz, and 4096‑QAM) — provided the full ecosystem (OS, certified drivers, Wi‑Fi 7 chipsets, and enterprise AP...

Microsoft rolled out optional September preview updates for Windows 11 that bundle a surprising mix of AI-powered conveniences, accessibility improvements, and a broad set of bug fixes — and while Microsoft patched several known regressions, a small number of playback and compatibility edge cases remain under investigation. Background / Overview Microsoft published two non‑security, optional preview packages in late September: KB5065789 (targeting Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 Release Preview...

Windows 10’s final calendar footnote — October 14, 2025 — has already started reshaping the PC gaming landscape: Capcom has formally warned that Monster Hunter: World, Monster Hunter Rise, and Monster Hunter Wilds “will no longer be guaranteed” to run on Windows 10 after Microsoft stops providing security and platform updates, a warning echoed by other developers such as Square Enix for Final Fantasy XIV and reflected across the industry’s support matrices. Background Microsoft’s lifecycle...

A sweeping industry report released this year warns that Microsoft’s Copilot is touching orders of magnitude more sensitive business data than many IT teams realise — with Concentric AI reporting that Copilot accessed nearly three million confidential records per organisation in the first half of 2025 — raising hard questions about governance, data residency, and attack surface as generative and agentic AI become embedded in everyday workflows. Background Corporate use of generative AI...

Microsoft’s security strategy just took a decisive step into what it calls the “agentic era”: on September 30, 2025 the company announced that Microsoft Sentinel is evolving from a cloud-native SIEM into a full-fledged agentic security platform, with the Sentinel data lake moving to general availability, the public preview of a Sentinel graph and a Sentinel Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, and tighter integration with Security Copilot, Security Store distribution, and partner-built...

Microsoft's latest Copilot update pushes Office from suggestion to automation: Agent Mode embeds multi‑step AI agents directly inside Word and Excel, while a chat‑first Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot promises end‑to‑end document and slide generation — a packaged vision Microsoft calls vibe working. Background / Overview Microsoft has been methodically transforming Copilot from a sidebar assistant into a platform of agents, governance controls, and deployment options. The new Agent...

Zed Industries has quietly pushed a Windows beta into the wild, seeding a public nightly build via its community channels and opening the door for Windows users to try the Rust‑based editor that until now has been largely a macOS and Linux affair. Background Zed began life as a high‑performance, GPU‑accelerated code editor built in Rust by former Atom developers and a small team focused on rethinking the editor experience. Its architecture deliberately avoids Electron: instead the team...

CPUs aren’t going away — they’re evolving, and the next generation of processor design is quietly reshaping the architecture of high-performance computing (HPC) by blending the reliability of the general-purpose CPU with radical advances in packaging, memory, and co-design that make CPU-driven systems a competitive, practical, and cost‑sensitive path for many classes of scientific and industrial computing workloads. Background / Overview The enduring role of the CPU in HPC comes down to...

Fortude’s announcement that it has earned the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization marks a material step in the company’s Microsoft partnership journey and signals that the firm has met Microsoft’s formal performance, skilling, and audit gates for delivering enterprise-scale analytics on Azure. Background Since Microsoft restructured its partner program in 2023–2024, the Solutions Partner designations and workload-specific specializations have become the industry’s primary signal of...

Microsoft has quietly shipped a small but important Insider update — Windows 11 KB5065793 (Build 26220.6760 / 26120.6760) — that stitches up a raft of annoying user-facing bugs and developer headaches, from taskbar and system tray oddities to SMBv1 file-sharing problems and PIX GPU‑capture playback errors. The patch is rolling out gradually to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels, and while many fixes are straightforward quality-of-life improvements, a few changes carry security and...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will block non‑compliant PCs at launch if they don’t meet Activision’s updated RICOCHET anti‑cheat prerequisites — most notably an active TPM 2.0 and UEFI Secure Boot — and there’s a narrow window to prepare legacy systems before the November 14, 2025 launch. Background / Overview The PC launch of Black Ops 7 is riding a clear industry trend: publishers are moving anti‑cheat detection earlier in the boot chain and anchoring integrity checks to hardware‑backed...

Microsoft’s push to make Office feel less like a collection of tools and more like a team of assistants just took a decisive step: the company has rolled out Agent Mode inside Excel and Word and introduced an in-chat Office Agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot, a move Microsoft is packaging as “vibe working.” These agents decompose multi-step tasks, execute them inside the document canvas, and surface intermediate artifacts for human review — promising big time savings for routine knowledge work...

Microsoft’s security stack has just taken a decisive step into the agentic era: the company has expanded Microsoft Sentinel and Security Copilot with AI-driven, agentic capabilities — including the generally available Microsoft Sentinel data lake, new graph and model-context features that let agents reason over unified security signals, a no-code agent builder for Security Copilot, and lifecycle protections in Azure AI Foundry to reduce risk from runaway or malicious agent behavior. These...

atQor says it has renewed its Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP) designation — and the company is using that renewal to recast itself as a global leader in secure cloud modernization and AI‑first transformation, while making an unusually specific operational claim: the renewal audit was completed in a single day. Background Microsoft’s Azure Expert MSP badge is the partner ecosystem’s top-tier managed‑services recognition. It requires partners to meet a set of...

Fortude’s confirmation as a holder of the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization marks a visible step up in the company’s Azure credentials and underscores a wider industry trend: Microsoft’s partner program is shifting from simple badge-collection to measurable, audit-backed proof of analytics delivery capability on Azure. Background Microsoft’s partner ecosystem has evolved rapidly from the legacy Gold/Certified model into the Solutions Partner designations and a set of focused...

The countdown to October 14, 2025 has turned from a calendar item into a board‑level risk: Microsoft will stop shipping routine security updates, quality fixes and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions on that date, leaving any un‑upgraded device exposed unless covered by Extended Security Updates (ESU) or other compensating controls. Many organizations are still on the old OS, attackers are already weaponizing Windows‑10‑era vulnerabilities, and the practical choices...