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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...

Microsoft has quietly lifted the safeguard that kept a notable subset of Intel‑powered PCs from receiving the Windows 11, version 24H2 feature update after a persistent incompatibility in Intel’s Smart Sound Technology (Intel SST) audio drivers caused blue screens and total audio loss for some 11th‑generation systems. Background / Overview The Windows 11 24H2 rollout has been punctuated by a series of targeted compatibility safeguards—surgical blocks Microsoft applies to prevent specific...

Microsoft’s optional Release Preview package KB5065789 lands as a compact but consequential update for Windows 11, bringing AI-powered File Explorer actions, a redesigned Advanced (formerly “For developers”) settings page, expanded accessibility features — including a Braille Viewer — and a suite of taskbar and desktop usability tweaks that preview what’s coming in the broader 25H2 enablement wave. This preview is being distributed as an optional, non‑security servicing package to Release...

It’s a sign of the times when enterprise software purchasing — long one of the duller back-office disciplines — becomes a project for generative AI: Onyx, a newly minted startup founded by industry veterans, has built an expert‑backed LLM service that answers Microsoft licensing questions and benchmarks commercial deals, then routes uncertain cases to human experts for validation. The product is explicitly positioned as a licensing helpdesk: fast, curated, and audit‑ready advice intended to...

atQor has announced that it has successfully renewed its Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP) designation — a high‑bar credential in the Microsoft partner ecosystem — and says the renewal audit was completed in a single day, underscoring the company’s focus on secure cloud modernization, hybrid operations, and AI‑first modernization strategies. Background / Overview The Azure Expert MSP designation is Microsoft’s top recognition for managed service providers that demonstrate...

Satya Nadella’s rhetoric about empathy and “hitting refresh” now collides with a series of hard, public failures: mass layoffs, a bruising consumer reaction to AI-first pricing and features, a privacy backlash over an AI snapshot tool, and a support deadline that leaves millions of ordinary PC owners exposed — all while Microsoft doubles down on an $80 billion infrastructure bet to win the AI era. The result is a company that, to many customers and employees, looks less human and more...

Two weeks is all that stands between millions of Windows 10 PCs and a hard vendor cutoff: on October 14, 2025 Microsoft will stop delivering routine security and quality updates for Windows 10, and if your machine can’t be upgraded through Windows Update you must choose a path now. This feature breaks down the five realistic options for Windows 10 holdouts, verifies the critical technical and financial details you’ll see in enrollment and upgrade flows, highlights the practical risks, and...

Microsoft has quietly moved Wi‑Fi 7 out of the consumer playbook and into the enterprise toolkit: Windows 11 (version 24H2) — with the September 2025 preview non‑security update — now supports Wi‑Fi 7 connectivity to enterprise access points, but only when the full stack is ready (OS, certified drivers, Wi‑Fi 7 chipsets and Wi‑Fi 7 enterprise APs), and only under modern security requirements such as WPA3‑Enterprise. Background / Overview Wi‑Fi 7 (IEEE 802.11be, Wi‑Fi Certified 7) is the...

OpenAI has quietly but decisively blurred the line between conversational AI and commerce by rolling out “Instant Checkout” inside ChatGPT — a feature that lets U.S. users buy items from Etsy directly in-chat today, with support for more than a million Shopify merchants (including brands like Glossier, Skims, Spanx and Vuori) promised shortly. The launch centers on a new open standard, the Agentic Commerce Protocol, and a Stripe partnership to handle payments and agent-native flows, while...

The window to turn your Windows 11 device refresh into a strategic advantage is closing fast — organisations that act now can convert a mandatory migration into measurable gains in security, productivity and cost control, while those that delay risk running unpatched systems, rising support bills and lost operational agility. Background / Overview The industry narrative for 2025 has crystallised around one calendar fact: Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025. After that date...