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I spent a week side‑by‑side with Windows 10 and Windows 11 to see whether the new OS really improves the day‑to‑day experience — and came away surprised: Windows 11 is a clearer, more modern platform in many places, but Microsoft’s marketing and some design choices make the upgrade feel like a tradeoff rather than a straight win. The OS brings genuinely helpful advances — File Explorer tabs, a faster Settings experience, built‑in OCR in Snipping Tool, modern bundled apps like Clipchamp and...

Microsoft is quietly rolling a tiny but practical convenience into Windows 11 Insiders’ taskbar: a one‑click shortcut for an internet speed test that launches Bing’s built‑in speed‑test widget, and it arrives alongside additional Copilot hooks and search tweaks in recent 24H2 preview builds. What looks like a small polish is a useful example of how Microsoft is increasingly stitching web services into core Windows UX — and why that trend matters for both everyday users and IT teams preparing...

The calendar for your Windows estate has shifted from optional maintenance to a board‑level deadline: the Windows 10 end‑of‑support date is fixed, Windows 11 brings new hardware‑driven security and AI capabilities, and organizations that treat the device refresh as a deliberate modernization program can convert compliance into measurable competitive advantage. Background / Overview The hard planning anchor for 2025 is straightforward: Microsoft will stop providing routine security updates...

Google’s recent pop-up promoting Chromebook Plus directly at users browsing Google.com and linking that pitch to the imminent end of support for Windows 10 is a sharp, unmistakable piece of comparative marketing — and it raises important questions about fairness, accuracy, and the real trade-offs consumers face when choosing a new laptop. Background The pop-up surfaced to users who were apparently running Windows 10, urging them to “Get Chromebook Plus” and calling out the end of security...

Vodafone’s latest small‑business video — and the practical advice inside it — is not fluff: it’s a window into how everyday SMEs can use AI now, safely, and with measurable return. The company’s Business.connected episode on AI features founders and consultants who emphasize one clear message: AI is already part of the small‑business toolkit, but value comes from picking the right tools, shoring up governance, and investing in human judgement as much as technology. Background / Overview AI...

atQor has announced the renewal of its Microsoft Azure Expert MSP designation, positioning the company as a renewed leader in secure cloud modernization and AI‑ready data platforms while emphasizing hybrid governance (Azure Arc), Microsoft Fabric integrations, and a rapid, one‑day audit completion that the company says validates its operational maturity. Background / Overview The Azure Expert MSP program is Microsoft’s top recognition for managed service providers that operate at enterprise...

Satya Nadella’s measured welcome for Grok 4 — “Excited for Grok 4 on Azure” — captured more than a momentary social-media exchange between two high-profile CEOs; it signaled a pragmatic reality now shaping enterprise AI: hyperscalers will host and mediate access to third‑party frontier models even as the companies that build them battle for narrative and technical supremacy. Background The last 12 months have accelerated a pattern that was already visible: cloud platforms such as Microsoft...

Microsoft ha appena rilasciato nuove build Insider per Windows 11 — la versione 26120.6760 sul Beta Channel e la 26220.6760 sul Dev Channel — che introducono una serie di piccole ma pratiche funzionalità (tra cui un collegamento rapido per un test di velocità di rete direttamente dal taskbar) oltre a miglioramenti per Copilot, File Explorer e accessibilità, assieme a un lotto di correzioni mirate segnalate per gli Insider. Overview / Background Negli ultimi mesi Microsoft ha consolidato una...

Capcom has told PC players it will no longer guarantee that three major Monster Hunter titles—Monster Hunter Wilds, Monster Hunter Rise, and Monster Hunter: World—will run on Windows 10 after Microsoft’s formal end‑of‑support milestone on October 14, 2025, a move announced through storefront/community notices that shifts compatibility risk onto players who remain on the legacy OS. Background Microsoft has set a fixed end‑of‑support date for Windows 10: after October 14, 2025 the operating...

Microsoft’s latest Insider checkpoint—packaged as KB5065793 and appearing in recent Dev and Beta preview builds—delivers a handful of practical interface changes and deeper platform plumbing that together reveal Microsoft’s current priorities: quicker diagnostic access, tighter Copilot integration, and broader cloud-storage hooks in File Explorer. The visible bits—most notably a one‑click network speed test accessible from the taskbar and a Microsoft 365 Copilot entry surfaced inside the Get...

Microsoft’s Windows engineering teams have been reunited under a single organizational roof in a high‑stakes move aimed at accelerating the company’s push to make Windows an “Agentic OS” — an operating system that blends multimodal inputs, on‑device intelligence, and cloud orchestration so the platform can act on user intent rather than only respond. Background For most of the last decade Microsoft has balanced two competing engineering priorities: the low‑level platform work that underpins...

Microsoft’s cloud just widened the ring of competition: Satya Nadella publicly welcomed xAI’s latest Grok family member to Azure AI Foundry, and Elon Musk replied with a terse “Thanks Satya,” marking another milestone in a high‑stakes dance between major cloud providers, independent model makers, and enterprise customers. The technical announcement is straightforward — Microsoft is making Grok 4 (and specifically the Grok 4 Fast variants) available through Azure AI Foundry with...

atQor has announced that it renewed its Microsoft Azure Expert MSP designation, framing the renewal as proof of continued leadership in secure cloud modernization and AI-ready data platforms—and making an unusual operational claim: the renewal audit was completed in a single day. This development matters for enterprise buyers, channel partners, and IT architects because the Azure Expert MSP badge is Microsoft’s top-tier validation for managed service providers and signals a partner capable...

If you just unboxed a Surface Pro and want a practical, step‑by‑step plan to get started — from setup and gestures to the Type Cover, Surface Pen, screenshots, and sensible troubleshooting — this guide walks you through everything a beginner needs to know to use a Surface Pro confidently and efficiently. Background The Surface Pro line is Microsoft’s flagship 2‑in‑1: a detachable keyboard plus kickstand, a touchscreen optimized for pen input, and a full Windows desktop OS in a tablet form...

Anthropic's latest incremental release, Claude 4.5 (Sonnet 4.5), doubles down on a business-first play: the company says the model sustains long-horizon coding and agentic workflows, improves handling of finance and scientific reasoning, and is now being positioned directly into enterprise orchestration surfaces such as Microsoft’s Copilot Studio. Internal demonstrations and customer reports—highlighted by claims of a 30‑hour autonomous coding session and a web app created from scratch in...

Microsoft’s cloud catalogue now lists xAI’s Grok 4 Fast family inside Azure AI Foundry, and the move has rapidly shifted the conversation from “can we run Grok?” to “how should enterprises run it?” — a question that matters for teams building document automation, developer tooling, or regulated AI services on Windows and Azure infrastructure. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft’s managed model catalog and hosting layer that packages third‑party foundation models...

atQor has formally announced the renewal of its Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP) designation, stressing a rapid one-day audit completion and reaffirming its emphasis on secure cloud modernization and AI-ready data platforms for enterprise customers worldwide. The company says the renewal underscores operational maturity across Azure governance, hybrid tooling such as Azure Arc, and AI data platforms including Microsoft Fabric, while calling out cost-optimization levers...

Microsoft’s latest preview servicing wave appears to move Wi‑Fi 7 out of the “consumer preview” bin and into enterprise conversations — but the story is not yet as clean as the headline suggests. A handful of outlets and community posts are reporting that the September 2025 Windows non‑security preview update (targeted at Windows 11 version 24H2 and later) enables enterprise‑grade 802.11be (Wi‑Fi 7) operation — including an enforced WPA3‑Enterprise baseline and improved roaming behavior —...

Microsoft’s latest Insider cumulative quietly stitches a few practical conveniences and developer hooks into Windows 11 while continuing the steady rollout of Copilot-era features — headlined by a taskbar-accessible network speed test, a targeted Microsoft 365 Copilot tile in Get Started, updated File Explorer search cues for Copilot+ PCs, and a set of under-the-hood fixes and known issues that Insiders and IT pilots need to weigh before upgrading. Background / Overview Windows 11’s...

Microsoft’s optional preview package KB5065789 lands as a focused Windows 11 tune-up that pushes AI into everyday workflows—bringing right‑click AI actions in File Explorer, tighter Click to Do summaries and table detection, accessibility upgrades like a Braille Viewer, and a handful of polish items and admin controls that make this more than a cosmetic update. Background / Overview KB5065789 is being distributed as a non‑security, preview cumulative update for Windows 11 (Release Preview...