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Microsoft’s formal end-of-support date for Windows 10 is now colliding with game publishers’ support cycles — and Capcom’s recent move to no longer guarantee that Monster Hunter Wilds (and its franchise siblings, Monster Hunter Rise and Monster Hunter: World) will run on Windows 10 after October 14, 2025 has crystallized the problem for players and admins who still rely on the older OS. This is not a hard “kill switch” that stops games from launching, but it is a meaningful policy shift...

Microsoft’s Photos app for Windows 11 can now do more than display and edit images — it will proactively tidy your camera roll by automatically grouping receipts, screenshots, identity documents, and notes into dedicated categories, and the preview is rolling out to Windows Insiders on Copilot+ PCs. Background / Overview Microsoft has been steadily turning Photos from a basic viewer into a productivity surface that leans on AI: OCR, inpainting and background removal, on‑device super...

Microsoft’s productivity stack just took another step toward agentic work: today’s rollout of Agent Mode in Excel and Word, plus a new Office Agent available from Copilot chat, promises to let everyday users build complex, auditable spreadsheets and full documents from simple natural‑language prompts. The two features push Microsoft’s “vibe working” pitch — the idea that non‑experts can achieve specialist outcomes through conversational prompts and multi‑step AI planning — into the core...

SMB over QUIC is the most promising evolution in file sharing since SMB 3.x—promising VPN-less, always-encrypted file access, faster connection setup, seamless roaming, and resilience on flaky networks—but the technology is not yet a drop-in replacement for TCP-based SMB in most production environments. Background The Server Message Block (SMB) protocol has dominated Windows file sharing for decades, evolving from the early CIFS/SMBv1 era into the modern, feature-rich SMB 2.x/3.x family that...

MAME 0.281 lands with native Windows-on-ARM binaries and a clutch of emulation fixes that make running arcade and vintage computer systems on ARM laptops and mini‑PCs both easier and, in many cases, faster. The official release adds a precompiled Arm64 Windows package, contains targeted fixes to the 64‑bit ARM recompiler back end (with specific benefits for emulated Hitachi SuperH and Hyperstone E1 CPUs), and ships the usual monthly haul of driver updates, bug fixes, and newly working...

I’ve decided to keep using Windows 10 past Microsoft’s cutoff, and I’ve built a practical, risk‑aware plan that other holdouts can follow — a bridge that balances security, cost and sustainability while acknowledging the hard facts of lifecycle windows and hardware limits. Background: what “Windows 10 dies in October” actually means Microsoft has fixed a hard calendar date: Windows 10 mainstream support ends on October 14, 2025. After that date Microsoft will stop delivering routine...

Udemy’s latest corporate learning data make one thing unmistakable: enterprises are no longer dabbling in AI — they’re building fluency programs, wiring AI into daily work, and pairing technical depth with human skills to manage risk, quality, and change. The company’s 2026 Global Learning & Skills Trends Report frames AI fluency as table stakes, documenting massive year‑over‑year surges in Copilot and generative AI learning, while regional signals — notably in India — show very rapid uptake...

Microsoft’s Copilot is learning to plan — not just answer — and the company has rolled out a pair of agentic features that push that capability directly into Word and Excel: a new Agent Mode for in‑app, multistep assistance and an Office Agent that creates documents from the Copilot chat surface (the latter powered in part by Anthropic’s Claude models, rather than only OpenAI’s models). These additions are framed by Microsoft as a shift from single‑step prompts toward a collaborative...

Microsoft’s Copilot ecosystem has quietly entered a new phase: users and administrators can now choose Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 as alternative engines inside Copilot Studio and the Researcher agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, while Claude Opus 4.1 has also been added to GitHub Copilot for developer workflows. This is not a minor UI tweak — it formalizes model choice as a first‑class capability across Microsoft’s productivity and developer surfaces, introduces practical...

Userful’s preview of Infinity EdgeAI marks a notable shift in how mission‑critical operations think about edge computing: rather than simply visualizing sensor and camera feeds, the company says the platform will observe, interpret and act at the edge—linking anomalies to source data and triggering audited workflows for NOCs, SOCs, EOCs and other control rooms. Background / Overview Userful introduced Infinity EdgeAI (preview) as an on‑premise, edge‑native cognitive intelligence add‑on for...

SAP and OpenAI’s announcement of “OpenAI for Germany” marks a bold, coordinated attempt to deliver sovereign AI capabilities to Germany’s public sector by combining OpenAI’s generative models with SAP’s sovereign cloud expertise and Microsoft Azure infrastructure. The program promises a locally hosted, compliance-focused AI service for government, research and administrative use — positioned as a bridge between cutting-edge generative AI and strict European data-protection, security and...

If you’re one of the many Windows users still uncertain whether your PC can run Windows 11, you can get a definitive, actionable answer in seconds — provided you know which checks to run, where to look for the real reasons a system fails, and how to weigh the risks of any workaround you might consider. The fastest, most official route is Microsoft’s PC Health Check tool, which now reports why a machine fails a compatibility test; alternative open-source checkers such as WhyNotWin11 and...

Microsoft has quietly altered the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program to give consumers across the European Economic Area a one‑year window of free security updates — but the relief comes with narrow eligibility rules, mandatory Microsoft account sign‑ins, and a hard deadline that leaves many users with difficult choices. Background: why this matters now Windows 10 reaches its official end‑of‑support on October 14, 2025. After that date Microsoft stops issuing routine security...

Raspberry Pi’s new 500+ keyboard PC—bundled with NComputing’s LEAF OS—arrives as a purpose-built, low-cost enterprise endpoint aimed squarely at organizations wrestling with Windows 10’s looming end-of-support and the complex, expensive migration to Windows 11. The device pairs a modern quad‑core Arm CPU, 16 GB of RAM, and a swappable M.2 NVMe SSD inside an ergonomic mechanical keyboard, and is being marketed as a ready-to-deploy thin‑client platform for VDI, DaaS, and SaaS-first workplaces...

Capcom’s message to PC players this week — that Monster Hunter Wilds and its immediate predecessors, Monster Hunter Rise and Monster Hunter: World, will no longer be guaranteed to run on Windows 10 after October 14, 2025 — is a blunt, practical alignment of publisher support policy with Microsoft’s operating‑system lifecycle. The shift is small in wording but potentially large in effect: for two legacy ports that are largely in maintenance mode the change is largely procedural, but for an...

Google’s new experimental Windows overlay arrives as a compact, Spotlight-like search bar that runs above whatever you’re doing, pulls results from the web, Google Drive, installed apps and local files, and folds Google Lens and an AI Mode into a single quick-access experience — summoned by default with Alt + Space. Background Google announced the new Google app for Windows as an experiment inside Search Labs, positioning it as a lightweight desktop overlay that reduces context switching and...

Windows telemetry that tracks desktop operating systems shows a surprising wrinkle as Windows 10 approaches its end-of-support deadline: web‑analytics snapshots and press reports suggest Windows 7’s measured presence has increased sharply in recent months, even as Windows 11 pulls ahead of Windows 10 on many trackers — a pattern that mixes real migration, measurement noise, and operational risk. The claim that Windows 7 “doubled” in two months has circulated widely, but a careful look at...

Microsoft will keep releasing security updates for Windows 10 for one extra year in the European Economic Area, but the relief is strictly regional—and the fine print matters more than the headlines. Background Microsoft has set October 14, 2025 as the official end-of-support date for Windows 10, after which mainstream security patches and quality updates cease for consumer editions. To give users extra time to transition to Windows 11, Microsoft created a consumer Extended Security Updates...

ChatGPT sits far ahead of its rivals by almost every public metric, but that lead is a snapshot — not a guarantee — and the next phase of the AI chatbot race will be decided by product integration, reliability, regulation, and who can translate model capability into daily, dependable value for users and enterprises. Background / Overview OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates conversational-AI traffic and engagement in 2025, repeatedly showing market-share figures in the 80% range on independent...

Raymond Chen’s short-answer to a decades-old Windows 95 installation mystery is deceptively simple: Microsoft used a trimmed-down Windows 3.1 as the installer bootstrap because it was already available, small enough to ship on floppies of the day, and minimized engineering and reboot costs compared with building a purpose-built miniature of the then-still-late Windows 95 codebase. Background / Overview Windows 95 famously reshaped the PC desktop, but its installer—what users experienced when...