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ExplorerPatcher’s latest maintenance release restores a broken weather widget and a raft of Windows 11 tweaks — but the fix also lays bare the fragile ecosystem that surrounds third‑party shell mods, where changes made by Google, Microsoft, or antivirus heuristics can suddenly break a feature that users rely on. Background ExplorerPatcher is an open‑source utility that hooks into the Windows shell to restore or emulate legacy behaviors from Windows 10, including a classic taskbar, Start menu...

Microsoft’s long‑announced retirement of Windows 10 is now a practical deadline: after October 14, 2025, mainstream Windows 10 editions no longer receive routine security updates or standard technical support, and millions of users must choose whether to upgrade to Windows 11, buy a short‑term Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge, or accept increasing risk on an unsupported platform. Background / Overview Microsoft has established a fixed lifecycle cutoff for Windows 10: October 14, 2025...

Windows 10’s official end-of-support deadline is a hard calendar moment — for most users the safest, most practical response is to plan a controlled migration to Windows 11 now rather than rush when the clock runs out. Background / Overview Microsoft has fixed a firm end-of-support date for mainstream Windows 10 editions: security updates, feature updates and standard support end on October 14, 2025. This is not a vague recommendation or phased suggestion — it’s a lifecycle cutoff that...

After testing six popular Windows clipboard managers, the open‑source utility Ditto emerged as the most practical, reliable, and configurable option—delivering persistent history, powerful search, and keyboard‑first workflows that restore what Windows’ built‑in clipboard should have been. Background Windows 11 ships with a native Clipboard History (Win + V) that is immediately useful but intentionally limited: by default it retains around 25 recent entries, only preserves items across...

OpenAI’s invite-only Sora app rocketed into the U.S. App Store’s Top Overall chart within 48 hours of its iOS debut, recording an estimated 56,000 downloads on day one and roughly 164,000 installs across the first two days — a surge that pushed Sora to the No. 3 position and immediately focused attention on generative video as the next mainstream battleground for consumer AI. Background / Overview OpenAI announced the Sora app alongside the Sora 2 model in a phased rollout that began with an...

IBM’s Granite 4.0 brings a deliberate, enterprise-first rethink of language-model design: a hybrid Mamba-2/transformer architecture that promises far lower memory use for long-context workloads, permissive open licensing, and an unusually strong governance posture — all positioned to make high-performance LLMs more affordable and practical for real-world business deployments. Background / Overview Granite 4.0 is IBM’s latest generation of the Granite model family, announced as an...

Pure Storage’s latest refresh positions storage not as a passive tier but as an active, orchestrated data plane that enterprises can use to accelerate and govern AI — spanning on‑premises arrays, container platforms, and native public‑cloud services. Background Pure Storage has announced a set of product and cloud integrations under the banner of an Enterprise Data Cloud, designed to make data accessible where and when AI needs it while adding automation, cyber‑resilience, and policy‑driven...

Ooredoo and DE‑CIX have taken a major step toward reshaping Qatar’s internet fabric by bringing Doha IX to market — a carrier‑neutral, commercial Internet Exchange Point (IXP) that promises lower latency, direct cloud peering, and a consolidated route to global content for networks across the Gulf and wider region. Background / Overview Since the mid‑1990s, Internet Exchange Points have been the plumbing of the internet: localising traffic between networks to improve performance and reduce...

Microsoft has quietly given many Windows 10 users a one‑year safety net: an in‑product Extended Security Updates (ESU) enrollment that — under clear prerequisites — can extend critical security updates through October 13, 2026, often at no out‑of‑pocket cost and in just a few clicks. Background / Overview Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025. After that date Microsoft will stop issuing routine feature updates, general quality fixes, and standard technical...

Microsoft has quietly lifted the compatibility hold that blocked a subset of Windows 11 PCs from receiving the 24H2 feature update, resolving a long-running webcam-related compatibility problem that prevented systems using certain imaging stacks from upgrading safely. Background Microsoft’s staged rollout model for major Windows feature updates relies on targeted safeguard holds (compatibility blocks) to prevent upgrades on device configurations known to break after an update. When Windows...

Microsoft’s claim that a “tiny” chip will make Windows noticeably smarter is no longer vaporware: the company has formally tied the next wave of Windows intelligence to dedicated neural processing hardware — Neural Processing Units (NPUs) — and a new device tier called Copilot+ PCs, which must include an NPU capable of 40+ trillion operations per second (TOPS) to unlock a growing set of local AI features. Background / Overview Microsoft frames the move as an architectural shift: instead of...

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint began firing repeated alerts telling users to update Dell machines’ BIOS — a false positive caused by a logic bug in Defender’s vulnerability-fetching code — and although Microsoft says a fix has been developed, administrators are left juggling alert fatigue, verification work, and unanswered questions about scope and rollout timing. Background Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise-grade extended detection and response (XDR) platform that combines...

Microsoft’s September 2025 Intune wave is one of the more consequential updates for endpoint teams this year: the service stretches its management surface to hardware-level recovery with an Intel vPro Fleet Services integration, delivers day‑zero compatibility for Apple’s OS 26 family and an improved Purebred-derived credentials experience, adds PowerShell-based “installer script” capability for more complex Win32/EAM deployments, and folds AI-driven Cloud PC analysis into Copilot in Intune...

Microsoft appears to be testing a dedicated, photos-first OneDrive app for Windows 11 that bundles a built-in gallery, enhanced photo organization, and Copilot intelligence — a leak that paints a clear picture of a strategic shift in how Microsoft wants users to interact with OneDrive on the PC. Early screenshots and hands‑on reporting indicate the app opens into a Gallery view by default, offers separate Files and Photos tabs, reuses familiar Photos editing primitives, and surfaces Copilot...

Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025, and that fixed calendar date forces every user, household, and IT team still running the decade‑old OS to choose a clear path: upgrade, buy time, or accept rising security and compatibility risk. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in 2015 and was Microsoft’s mainstream desktop platform for a decade. Microsoft has now set a firm lifecycle cutoff for the last broadly serviced consumer build (Windows 10, version 22H2)...

The September Steam Hardware & Software Survey delivered a clear signal to the PC gaming ecosystem: AMD’s CPU share among Steam users hit a new high (41.31%) while Intel slipped to a multi-month low (58.61%), and Windows 11 surged past the 60% mark on Steam (63.04%) as Windows 10 retreats ahead of end-of-support. Background / Overview Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey is a voluntary, anonymized snapshot of a rotating sample of active Steam clients. The survey reports...

If Safe Mode in Windows 11 drops you to a black screen, the problem is usually a display-path mismatch or a minimal-driver quirk — and there are systematic, low-risk steps you can take to get back in and finish troubleshooting. The checklist below expands on community and how‑to guidance with confirmed Microsoft procedures and practical workarounds so you can recover the display, repair likely file/driver causes, and — only if necessary — perform a reset while preserving data where possible...

PAGCOR’s agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot on 30 September represented a decisive, education-first pivot: teach staff how to use AI assistants for routine productivity while making governance, data protection and human oversight non‑negotiable features of any rollout. The online Masterclass, led by AI Workforce Specialist Christeen Padilla and attended by 98 employees across corporate and branch offices, introduced Microsoft Copilot Chat’s drafting, summarisation and ideation...

ServiceNow’s new AI Experience is the latest bold attempt to re‑center enterprise work on a single, agent‑driven interface — but the company’s ambitious demo reel and governance promises now collide with the mundane realities of integration, data quality, and user habit, making real adoption the much harder problem to solve. Background / Overview ServiceNow used its Knowledge 2025 stage to crystallize an audacious vision: a multimodal, agentic interface where employees speak, drop...

Today’s hands‑on workshop, "Ready to Build with Agents? Join Us Oct 3rd for a Hands‑On Workshop," promises practical, seat‑at‑the‑keyboard experience with modern agent tooling — but attendees should arrive prepared for both the technical depth and the governance trade‑offs that come with productionizing agentic AI. Background Agentic AI — software that can sense, reason, and act over time across systems and data sources — has moved rapidly from research curiosity into practical developer and...