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Microsoft has confirmed a set of known issues in Windows 11 version 25H2, the 2025 feature update now rolling out to consumer and enterprise devices, and some of those bugs carry practical impact for media playback, update installation workflows, and certain device architectures. Microsoft’s release-health notices list the problems, and community reporting has already surfaced real-world encounters — meaning IT teams and power users should plan mitigations before attempting a broad...

Satya Nadella’s confession — that he is “haunted” by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and fears artificial intelligence could render Microsoft’s flagship franchises irrelevant — is not mere corporate drama. It marks a strategic alarm bell fired from the center of one of the world’s most valuable companies as it pours unprecedented capital and organizational focus into AI while simultaneously shrinking headcount and reshaping its product roadmap. Microsoft’s 2025 pivot is simultaneously a...

Aravind Srinivas's offhand line — "My mom wanted me at Google" — landed like a cultural gauntlet: a founder born in India and raised within the global tech orbit publicly challenging a long-entrenched narrative that Indians belong at the helms of other people's companies, not at the starting line of the next generation of global giants. His comments, delivered during a recent interview and amplified across business press, arrive at a pivotal moment for both Perplexity — the AI search startup...

Microsoft has quietly turned File Explorer from a static file list into a launchpad for AI-accelerated micro‑tasks, tighter cloud integration, and a steady stream of productivity refinements that landed across Windows 11 builds in 2025. What started as a handful of usability tweaks — tidier context menus, a smarter Home page, and faster cloud file handling — matured into a coordinated effort to surface actionable AI directly where files live: the right‑click menu. The result is a File...

Logging in to a Microsoft account gives you single‑sign‑on access to Outlook, OneDrive, Teams, Xbox, Microsoft 365 apps and a raft of cloud conveniences — but doing it securely and predictably across Windows PCs, consoles and mobile devices requires a clear, step‑by‑step approach and awareness of important privacy and recovery traps. Background / Overview Microsoft accounts (often abbreviated MSA) are the identity pivot for consumer Microsoft services: they enable syncing of settings and...

Microsoft has begun the staged rollout of the Windows 11 2025 Update — Windows 11, version 25H2 — delivered primarily as a small enablement package that activates features already staged during the 24H2 servicing cycle, while emphasizing security hardening, lifecycle resets, and the removal of long‑deprecated tooling. Background Windows’ delivery model has been shifting from dramatic, image‑replacing annual upgrades toward a shared servicing branch where features are incrementally shipped in...

Electronic Arts has added a new gate to the PC door for Battlefield 6: the game now refuses to run on Windows machines that do not present a modern platform trust stack — specifically Secure Boot enabled (UEFI) and TPM 2.0 active — and many of the step-by-step instructions and troubleshooting flows being shared across the community reflect that enforcement and the practical paths players must take to regain access. Background / Overview Battlefield 6's enforcement is not an isolated...

Microsoft’s Copilot is testing a new visual layer called Portraits — a curated set of stylized, animated faces driven by Microsoft Research’s VASA‑1 model — that aims to make voice conversations with the AI feel more natural, while the company keeps the rollout deliberately limited and heavily guarded to address safety and privacy concerns. Background Microsoft has been evolving Copilot from a text-centric assistant into a multimodal companion that speaks, sees, remembers, and now, in...

UiPath has formally integrated Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry into its agentic automation platform, wiring Azure-hosted models and agents into UiPath Maestro so enterprises can orchestrate mixed-vendor AI agents, deterministic RPA robots, and human review steps inside a single governed workflow. Background Enterprises that have struggled to move AI pilots into production face two recurring gaps: how to standardize interactions between AI models and business systems, and how to govern...

Windows 11’s 25H2 annual update is now rolling out — but don’t expect fireworks: this release is a lightweight “enablement package” that mainly flips on features already baked into 24H2, delivers targeted security and platform hardening, removes a few legacy components, and otherwise leaves the core Windows 11 experience largely unchanged. Background / Overview Microsoft has continued the recent pattern of shipping most feature code ahead of the formal version bump and then delivering the...

Microsoft has quietly given many Windows 10 users a one‑year safety net: a consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that can extend security patching through October 13, 2026 — and there are free enrollment paths that, for many people, allow you to claim that protection instantly from within Windows 10’s Settings. Background Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025. After that date Microsoft will stop providing routine feature updates, general technical...

Microsoft has begun the staged rollout of the Windows 11 2025 Update — Windows 11, version 25H2 — delivered primarily as a lightweight enablement package that flips on features already staged across the 24H2 servicing branch and emphasizes security hardening, manageability, and lifecycle cleanups over headline consumer-facing changes. Background / Overview Microsoft’s update cadence for Windows 11 has evolved into a servicing-centric model: new capabilities are often shipped quietly inside...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly moved from a faceless helper to a companion with an animated, talk-back visage — a carefully staged experiment Microsoft calls Copilot Portraits that places stylized, real-time “talking heads” into voice conversations to make spoken AI interactions feel more natural and approachable. Early previews, run through Copilot Labs and limited to select regions and users, pair Copilot’s voice mode with a curated set of animated portraits that lip‑sync and react in...

There’s a simple reason event professionals call their work high-adrenaline: the stack is brittle. One unsynced calendar, one missed CRM update, or one streaming outage can ripple into a crisis that eats hours and damages relationships. Now, a visible partnership between InEvent and Microsoft for Startups promises to change that equation by embedding event management into the Microsoft cloud and productivity fabric—bringing Outlook, Teams, Dynamics 365, and AI tools into a single...

Fortude’s announcement that it has been awarded the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization marks a clear escalation in the company’s Microsoft partnership journey and signals that Fortude has met Microsoft’s prescribed consumption, skilling and audit gates for delivering enterprise-scale analytics on Azure. Background Microsoft reworked its partner program over 2023–2025, shifting from legacy gold/silver competencies to a layered model of Solutions Partner designations and...

Windows 11’s clean, opinionated design won plenty of fans — but that same polish left many power users and nostalgia seekers wanting more control over the taskbar, Start menu, and desktop personality. A wave of community-built mods has stepped in to fill that gap, offering everything from a translucent, dock-like taskbar to keyboard-driven tiling, classic soundpacks, and web-based widgets that let you design your own system HUD. These tools aren’t one-size-fits-all makeovers; they’re...

Microsoft has begun the quiet, staged rollout of Windows 11 version 25H2 — a pragmatic, operations-first update delivered primarily as a small enablement package that activates features Microsoft has been shipping throughout the 24H2 servicing stream rather than delivering a dramatic consumer-facing overhaul. Background / Overview Windows 11’s servicing model has steadily shifted from once-a-year monolithic rebases toward a shared-servicing-branch approach. Under this model Microsoft...

Microsoft has begun the controlled rollout of Windows 11, version 25H2, delivering this year’s annual feature update as a lightweight enablement package that flips feature flags rather than replacing the core OS — a move that reshapes how organizations and enthusiasts should think about upgrades, security, and legacy removals. Background Windows 11’s 25H2 update arrives as a continuation of Microsoft’s recent servicing model: continuous innovation delivered through monthly updates, with...

Not everyone needs a powerhouse — for many users the priority is a dependable, lightweight machine that handles browsing, documents, video calls and streaming without fuss; Hindustan Times’ recent roundup of the “Top 5 basic laptops in 2025” highlights exactly that category and serves as a useful starting point for students, home workers and casual users seeking the best budget laptops 2025 has to offer. Overview: what this list aims to solve The five machines covered (HP 15s, ASUS Vivobook...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Windows 11 version 25H2 — a deliberately lightweight, security-focused annual update delivered primarily as an enablement package that flips features already staged in the 24H2 servicing branch, makes targeted under‑the‑hood improvements, introduces enterprise Wi‑Fi 7 support, and removes a small set of legacy tooling such as Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WMIC. Background / Overview Windows 11 25H2 is not the kind of blockbuster visual revamp that dominated...