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NVIDIA’s latest support shift gives Windows 10 users a surprisingly long runway: GeForce RTX owners will continue to receive full Game Ready and Studio driver updates for an extra year — through October 2026 — while older Maxwell-, Pascal- and Volta-based cards move from feature updates to a security-only cadence. That means many gamers and creators on Windows 10 won’t be immediately cut off from driver optimizations or critical patches when Microsoft’s official Windows 10 end-of-support...

Windows 11 version 25H2 began rolling out on September 30, 2025, but for most people the update will feel more like a tidy housekeeping pass than a headline-grabbing overhaul — a small enablement package that flips on features already staged in last year’s servicing stream while trimming legacy cruft and adding a handful of manageability and AI controls. Background / Overview Microsoft’s delivery model for Windows 11 has evolved into a continuous-servicing approach: feature binaries are...

Microsoft has begun the staged rollout of the Windows 11 2025 Update — officially version 25H2 — but for the vast majority of users the release will feel deliberately muted: a servicing milestone, not a consumer-facing overhaul. Background / Overview Microsoft continues to move Windows 11’s annual cadence away from large image rebases and toward a servicing-first model: most of the engineering work lands in the active servicing branch (24H2) throughout the year and is then activated by a...

Thanks — I can write a long, polished (2000+ word) Markdown article about Tonic.ai joining Microsoft for Startups Pegasus, but first a quick verification / workflow note I need you to confirm: I tried to open the 8NewsNow / EIN Presswire URL you supplied, but the page is blocked behind an anti-bot / captcha gate and I could not retrieve the press release content from that link. The page shows a “Before we continue… Press & Hold to confirm you are a human” captcha and a Reference ID. Because...

In 2025, the barrier between phones and PCs has finally been reframed as a productivity seam, and Microsoft’s Phone Link (reachable via aka.ms/PhoneLink) sits at the center of that shift — not merely as a convenience utility but as the practical connective tissue that lets Windows become the hub of your mobile-first life. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Phone Link is the evolution of the old “Your Phone” companion and the mobile “Link to Windows” app. Over the last several years it moved...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 25H2 enablement package is rolling out, but if you rely on legacy media playback, SMBv1 file sharing, WUSA (.msu) installers from network shares, or you create installation media on Arm64 hosts, you should pause and read this first—these four confirmed regressions can break real workflows and are already documented by Microsoft and independent reporters. Background / Overview Windows 11 version 25H2 is being delivered as an enablement package layered on top of the 24H2...

Microsoft has begun the staged rollout of Windows 11 version 25H2, delivering the update as a lightweight enablement package to devices already on the 24H2 servicing branch, but launch day has been accompanied by several regressions that—while narrow in scope—are serious for affected users and enterprise deployment teams. The rollout confirms Microsoft’s strategy of using an enablement package to flip features already present in 24H2 into general availability, yet the first public offers of...

Microsoft has begun a staged rollout of the Windows 11 2025 Update — version 25H2 — and for most up-to-date PCs the upgrade is shockingly light: Microsoft delivers 25H2 primarily as a tiny enablement package (eKB) that flips already-shipped code on, meaning eligible devices already on Windows 11 version 24H2 typically need only a small download and a single restart to become 25H2. Background / Overview Microsoft’s servicing model for Windows has matured into a continuous-delivery approach...

Microsoft has taken a decisive step toward “agentic” productivity with the rollout of Agent Mode for Word and Excel and a separate Office Agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot chat — a suite Microsoft calls vibe working that promises conversational, multi‑step AI workflows to build documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks from simple plain‑English prompts. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot program has been evolving from a sidebar chat helper into a platform of coordinated agents...

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...