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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...

CPUs aren’t going away — they’re evolving, and the next generation of processor design is quietly reshaping the architecture of high-performance computing (HPC) by blending the reliability of the general-purpose CPU with radical advances in packaging, memory, and co-design that make CPU-driven systems a competitive, practical, and cost‑sensitive path for many classes of scientific and industrial computing workloads. Background / Overview The enduring role of the CPU in HPC comes down to...

Fortude’s announcement that it has earned the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization marks a material step in the company’s Microsoft partnership journey and signals that the firm has met Microsoft’s formal performance, skilling, and audit gates for delivering enterprise-scale analytics on Azure. Background Since Microsoft restructured its partner program in 2023–2024, the Solutions Partner designations and workload-specific specializations have become the industry’s primary signal of...

Microsoft has quietly shipped a small but important Insider update — Windows 11 KB5065793 (Build 26220.6760 / 26120.6760) — that stitches up a raft of annoying user-facing bugs and developer headaches, from taskbar and system tray oddities to SMBv1 file-sharing problems and PIX GPU‑capture playback errors. The patch is rolling out gradually to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels, and while many fixes are straightforward quality-of-life improvements, a few changes carry security and...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will block non‑compliant PCs at launch if they don’t meet Activision’s updated RICOCHET anti‑cheat prerequisites — most notably an active TPM 2.0 and UEFI Secure Boot — and there’s a narrow window to prepare legacy systems before the November 14, 2025 launch. Background / Overview The PC launch of Black Ops 7 is riding a clear industry trend: publishers are moving anti‑cheat detection earlier in the boot chain and anchoring integrity checks to hardware‑backed...

Microsoft’s push to make Office feel less like a collection of tools and more like a team of assistants just took a decisive step: the company has rolled out Agent Mode inside Excel and Word and introduced an in-chat Office Agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot, a move Microsoft is packaging as “vibe working.” These agents decompose multi-step tasks, execute them inside the document canvas, and surface intermediate artifacts for human review — promising big time savings for routine knowledge work...

Microsoft’s security stack has just taken a decisive step into the agentic era: the company has expanded Microsoft Sentinel and Security Copilot with AI-driven, agentic capabilities — including the generally available Microsoft Sentinel data lake, new graph and model-context features that let agents reason over unified security signals, a no-code agent builder for Security Copilot, and lifecycle protections in Azure AI Foundry to reduce risk from runaway or malicious agent behavior. These...

atQor says it has renewed its Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP) designation — and the company is using that renewal to recast itself as a global leader in secure cloud modernization and AI‑first transformation, while making an unusually specific operational claim: the renewal audit was completed in a single day. Background Microsoft’s Azure Expert MSP badge is the partner ecosystem’s top-tier managed‑services recognition. It requires partners to meet a set of...

Fortude’s confirmation as a holder of the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization marks a visible step up in the company’s Azure credentials and underscores a wider industry trend: Microsoft’s partner program is shifting from simple badge-collection to measurable, audit-backed proof of analytics delivery capability on Azure. Background Microsoft’s partner ecosystem has evolved rapidly from the legacy Gold/Certified model into the Solutions Partner designations and a set of focused...

The countdown to October 14, 2025 has turned from a calendar item into a board‑level risk: Microsoft will stop shipping routine security updates, quality fixes and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions on that date, leaving any un‑upgraded device exposed unless covered by Extended Security Updates (ESU) or other compensating controls. Many organizations are still on the old OS, attackers are already weaponizing Windows‑10‑era vulnerabilities, and the practical choices...

Windows 10 makes it easy to erase the device’s stored location history — but the full story is more nuanced than a single “Delete” button; Microsoft’s changes to how location data is stored, plus app-side retention and cloud-linked data, mean you should treat the simple Settings workflow as the start of a privacy cleanup, not the final step. Background / Overview Windows has offered location services since Windows 8 and expanded them in Windows 10 to support apps, maps, Find My Device, and...

EaseUS’s appointment of Avert IT Distribution as its official distributor in Africa is a strategic move that brings one of the world’s best‑known data‑protection vendors closer to local channels and customers, promising faster procurement, regional support and licensing models adapted to African markets while raising important questions about procurement, support, data sovereignty and long‑term channel economics. Background / Overview EaseUS has built a reputation as a global provider of...

Userful’s Infinity EdgeAI preview promises to move mission‑critical control rooms, factory floors, and security operations from passive visualization to real‑time cognitive intelligence at the edge, linking anomaly detection to auditable operator workflows and local decisioning. Background Userful, the company behind the software‑defined Userful Infinity platform, has announced Infinity EdgeAI (preview) as an on‑premises, edge‑native cognitive intelligence add‑on designed for NOCs, SOCs...

Microsoft’s clock is now set in stone: on October 14, 2025 Microsoft will stop shipping routine security and quality updates for mainstream editions of Windows 10, forcing a large and varied installed base into one of three choices—upgrade to Windows 11 if the hardware allows, enroll in the one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or migrate away from Windows entirely—and the trade‑offs for security, cost, compatibility and the environment are both immediate and long‑term...

Microsoft has quietly reversed a six‑year split inside its Windows engineering organization, reuniting the core platform, client, security, and data teams under a single leader as the company pivots to an AI‑first vision for the operating system. Background / Overview For most of the last decade, Microsoft ran Windows engineering in two broad silos: platform and cloud‑facing teams migrated toward Azure, while client‑facing experiences and devices were organized under Experiences & Devices...

Microsoft’s decision to draw a line under regular Windows 10 security updates in mid‑October is dramatic on the calendar but far less dramatic in practice than headlines suggest — and Estonia’s Peeter Marvet is right to stress that the real threat to most users is no longer an unpatched kernel exploit but the person sitting at the keyboard. The company will stop mainstream security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, but it is offering a one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates...

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...