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Microsoft has quietly — but deliberately — given the icons that millions rely on every day a brighter, more fluid look: a full Microsoft 365 icon refresh that ties the suite’s visual identity to Copilot and signals a broader shift toward AI‑first productivity across web, desktop, and mobile. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Office and Microsoft 365 icons were last overhauled in 2018; this 2025 update is the largest visual change to the core app marks since then and arrives as Copilot moves...

Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 icons have been quietly — but deliberately — redesigned, swapping the blocky, geometric look that defined the 2018 refresh for softer, folded shapes and richer gradients that align visually with the company’s Copilot branding and its broader AI-first positioning. Background Microsoft last performed a sweeping update to Office’s core app icons in 2018; the new set introduced this autumn is the first full redesign of that scale since then. The change covers the...

Microsoft's latest OneDrive leak paints the clearest picture yet of where Microsoft wants file storage and photo experiences to sit inside Windows: a modern, photo-first interface that borrows heavily from Windows 11 visuals while leaning on web-based delivery models that the company has been pushing across its app portfolio. Background / Overview Microsoft’s OneDrive client has been through periodic refreshes over the years, most notably the OneDrive 3.0 wave that surfaced in late 2023 and...

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation’s recent agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot is a pragmatic first step in a delicate balancing act: harnessing AI for productivity while protecting highly sensitive regulatory and player data in a tightly regulated industry. The online session, delivered as a Microsoft Copilot Chat Masterclass during Development Policy Research Month, introduced staff to Copilot’s drafting, summarization, and idea-generation capabilities while...

British Airways’ latest technology push is a full-throttle attempt to turn years of operational pain into a data-driven, AI-enabled airline — and the results so far show both impressive gains and clear new risks that every CIO, operations leader and IT professional should study closely. Background British Airways has launched an ambitious, multi-billion-pound modernization program that rethinks how the carrier runs flights, maintains aircraft, serves customers and manages IT. The program is...

Microsoft has confirmed that support for Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025 — meaning no more feature updates, no more routine security patches, and no routine technical support after that date — although a limited bridge for security updates is available through a new Extended Security Updates (ESU) program and a handful of Microsoft services will continue receiving protections beyond that cutoff. Background Microsoft launched Windows 10 in 2015 and supported it with regular feature...

Start11’s latest incremental update sharpens the app’s core mission: restore control and polish to the Windows 11 Start menu and taskbar experience with a handful of practical features and a raft of bug fixes that matter most to multi‑monitor and power users. Background For users who resent the simplified, constrained Start menu and taskbar behavior introduced in Windows 11, third‑party utilities remain the practical way to regain flexibility. Start11 from Stardock is one of the most mature...

Microsoft has given the familiar tiles of Microsoft 365 a fresh coat of paint — the company unveiled a coherent redesign of its core app icons that replaces the blocky, angular motifs of the last era with softer curves, richer gradients, and an aesthetic explicitly tied to its Copilot-era visuals. The change, announced by Microsoft in early October and rolling out across web, desktop, and mobile over the month, updates the visual identity of the suite for the first time since the 2018...

Michael Lynch’s short, curated list of “10 Software Essays that Shaped Me” reads less like a nostalgia piece and more like a compact curriculum for the pragmatic engineer: it stitches together classical software wisdom (Fred Brooks, Joel Spolsky), platform-specific operational hard-earned truths (Raymond Chen), and modern, actionable practices for safety and maintainability (Alexis King, Erik Kuefler, Julia Evans). Lynch — a developer who has worked at Microsoft and Google and now publishes...

CanXP AI’s announcement that it has launched what it calls “Canada’s first sovereign AI ecosystem” marks a notable moment in the country’s rapidly evolving AI landscape — but the claim deserves close scrutiny. The startup’s initial public release positions CanXP as a Canadian-built, Canadian-hosted alternative designed to keep corporate and personal knowledge inside Canadian jurisdiction and, the company says, “never train external models.” The launch dovetails with Ottawa’s broader...

AI is no longer an optional add‑on — it’s the toolkit that turns ordinary applications into intelligent, context‑aware systems that can read, speak, predict and automate at scale. In a crowded market of frameworks, cloud services and low‑code platforms, picking the right AI development tool is now one of the most consequential technical decisions an engineering team can make. This feature distills the strengths, trade‑offs and real‑world fit of the 10 most widely used AI development tools —...

Microsoft has set a hard deadline: Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, and that change forces a decision for every PC owner, IT manager, and small business that still relies on the decade-old operating system. Microsoft’s official lifecycle notices, a coordinated consumer-facing ESU enrollment program, and the company’s renewed push for Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs together create a clear — and urgent — migration window. For many users there is a short, paid lifeline (the...

Glow’s latest incremental update, version 25.13, arrives as a compact, portable refresh that reaffirms the project’s focus on compatibility, usability, and a steadily expanding set of troubleshooting utilities — most notably full support for Windows 11 version 25H2, a newly added Stuck Pixel Repair Tool, UI theming improvements, and reported integration of the October 2025 .NET Framework 4.8.1 security update. This release continues Glow’s long-running strategy: keep the executable small...

Alexandra Zagury’s jump from Cisco to Microsoft is the latest, high‑profile channel movement reshaping how hyperscalers and networking vendors recruit partner‑centric talent to drive AI and managed‑services plays across enterprise accounts. Background Alexandra Zagury spent nearly 11 years at Cisco, most recently serving as vice president of global partner operations and platform experience, a role that placed her at the center of Cisco’s partner strategy for managed services and platform...

Microsoft’s new open-source Microsoft Agent Framework, announced on October 1, 2025, aims to become the unified foundation for building, orchestrating, and deploying agentic AI applications across enterprise environments, bringing together ideas from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen while adding runtime features for observability, durability, and governance. Background The rise of agentic AI — systems that reason, execute tasks, call external tools, and coordinate with other agents — has...

Microsoft’s latest public posture on AI infrastructure is less a new technical roadmap than a blunt strategic statement: build a fleet that is as fungible and flexible as possible, then let customers, partners and models ride it. That message—articulated by Satya Nadella in recent public posts and echoed throughout Microsoft’s executive briefings—underscores a company-wide bet that infrastructure fungibility will be the single biggest differentiator in the coming phase of generative-AI...

If your Windows 10 PC is approaching the end of official support and you don’t want Windows 11 — or your hardware isn’t eligible for Microsoft’s free upgrade — switching to a friendly Linux desktop like Linux Mint is a practical, zero‑cost option that will keep your machine useful and secure for years to come. Background / Overview Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025; after that date Microsoft will stop shipping security patches and feature updates for standard Windows 10...

Using DISM you can capture an entire Windows volume into a single compressed WIM file and restore it later to the same machine, creating a fast path back to a known-good system image that includes installed apps, drivers, and user‑level data — provided you prepare the environment correctly and understand the method’s limitations. Background / Overview DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) is a built‑in Windows tool used primarily for servicing and deploying Windows images. Power...

Microsoft’s quiet pivot to make Copilot-driven “companion” apps a default presence on Windows 11 devices is now public policy: starting in late October 2025 the Microsoft 365 companion apps — People, Files (File Search), and Calendar — will be automatically installed on Windows 11 machines that already have Microsoft 365 desktop clients, unless an administrator explicitly blocks the behavior. This rollout is tenant-scoped, configured to launch at startup for immediate discoverability, and...

Microsoft’s September 9, 2025 Setup Dynamic Update (KB5066990) for Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 refreshes the small, critical set of setup binaries used during feature updates and media-based installations — a narrowly scoped but operationally significant package that fixes file-version mismatches, hardens in-place-upgrade (IPU) and imaging scenarios, and is available through Windows Update, the Microsoft Update Catalog and WSUS. Background Dynamic Updates (DU) are a...