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Microsoft’s latest Copilot experiment adds a face — or rather, dozens of stylized faces — to voice conversations, bringing animated, real‑time portraits to Copilot Labs as a means of making spoken interactions feel more natural and visually grounded. The feature, announced as Copilot Portraits, pairs Copilot’s voice mode with 40 pre‑selected, intentionally non‑photorealistic animated portraits that lip‑sync and react in real time, and is rolling out in a limited preview through Copilot Labs...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot experiment gives voice a face: an animated, stylized portrait that lip‑syncs, emotes, and reacts while you speak to Copilot — a feature called Copilot Portraits currently rolling out through Copilot Labs to a small set of users and tied to the paid Copilot Pro tier. Background Microsoft has been steadily moving Copilot beyond typed chat into a richer, multimodal assistant that uses voice, vision, memory, and now visual companions to make interactions feel more...

Fortude’s announcement that it has secured the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization is a meaningful validation of the company's Azure analytics practice — but it is also a reminder that Microsoft’s partner credentials are now signals that require follow-up, not substitutes for procurement due diligence. Background / Overview Fortude, a global technology and digital solutions firm, recently publicized that it has earned the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization as part of its...

Global Objects is using a mix of cinema-grade capture rigs, cloud-scale compute, and NVIDIA-accelerated tooling to assemble what it calls a marketplace-sized library of photoreal, production-ready 3D objects—digital twins of real props, products, and environments intended for film, XR, simulation, and AI training. The company’s workflow combines high-fidelity capture (sub-millimeter precision), automated reconstruction and AI cleanup, encrypted cloud storage, and developer-facing asset...

Windows doesn’t provide a single “recently closed apps” button the way a phone does, but with a blend of built‑in diagnostics, system logs, and free utilities you can reconstruct what ran and when—often with enough precision for troubleshooting, auditing, or simple curiosity. Background / Overview Windows focuses on current processes and system stability rather than keeping a friendly, human‑facing timeline of every closed application. That means there’s no universal, always‑on “recently...

The ability to run Linux GUI apps directly on Windows through WSLg has quietly turned a developer-focused convenience into a practical everyday workflow — and not just for terminals and servers. Tools like HiFile, Foliate, and Apostrophe show how select Linux-native apps can make more sense on Windows when they run inside WSLg: they map naturally to Linux filesystems, avoid costly cross-platform licensing, or simply offer a different, highly focused experience that complements native Windows...

NVIDIA’s driver ecosystem remains the single most consequential piece of software on any modern Windows gaming or creative PC, and the way those drivers are packaged and distributed is evolving fast — both in the official releases from NVIDIA and in community tools that let power-users reclaim control. A recent snapshot of available downloads and utilities shows the official GeForce driver stack advancing through multiple rapid releases in 2025, while independent tools continue to offer...

Microsoft’s Copilot isn’t just another add‑on—when adopted correctly it becomes the foundation for an organization’s move toward autonomous, agentic workflows, but the road from license purchase to measurable business value is shorter for some companies than others. The UC Today feature with New Era Technology’s Senior VP Steve Daly lays out a practical, field‑tested blueprint for bridging that gap: rigorous change management, continuous user enablement, and a repeatable adoption framework...

Microsoft has quietly but decisively broadened the enterprise AI landscape by adding xAI’s Grok 4 Fast family to Azure AI Foundry after a period of private preview — a move that gives Azure customers a new “frontier‑reasoning” option packaged with Microsoft’s enterprise controls, but also forces IT teams to reconcile conflicting vendor claims, tangled pricing, and real safety trade‑offs. Background Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry is the company’s managed model catalog and hosting layer for...

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...