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Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 Copilot now supports Anthropic’s Claude family — specifically Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 — giving enterprise customers an explicit choice between OpenAI and Anthropic models for selected Copilot experiences, while raising immediate governance, security, and procurement questions that IT leaders can’t afford to ignore. Background Microsoft 365 Copilot began as Microsoft’s AI layer across Office apps, centered on capabilities powered largely by OpenAI models...

OpenAI, SAP and Microsoft have launched “OpenAI for Germany,” a sovereign-AI partnership that will host OpenAI’s foundation models inside SAP’s Delos Cloud running on Microsoft Azure, targeted at Germany’s public sector with an initial infrastructure buildout of approximately 4,000 GPUs and a staged public rollout planned for 2026. Background Germany has made digital sovereignty a central element of its industrial and public‑sector policy. The federal High‑Tech Agenda and the “Made for...

The clock is ticking for businesses still anchored to Windows 10: Microsoft’s move to concentrate development and security work on Windows 11, combined with a hard end-of-support date for Windows 10, makes migration planning a board-level operational imperative rather than an optional IT project. Background Windows 10 will reach the end of its mainstream support lifecycle on October 14, 2025. After that date Microsoft will stop providing regular security updates, feature updates, and...

Microsoft has quietly removed a long-running compatibility block that prevented many Intel-powered PCs from getting the Windows 11, version 24H2 (2024 Update) rollout, clearing the path for affected machines to receive the feature update once compatible Intel Smart Sound Technology (Intel SST) audio drivers are installed on those systems. Background The block traces back to an incompatibility between Windows 11, version 24H2 and specific releases of the Intel Smart Sound Technology (Intel...

Australia’s leading security practitioners and program owners have been named as finalists in the 2025 Benchmark Security Awards, an annual recognition program run by iTnews in partnership with techpartner.news that celebrates excellence in cybersecurity leadership across government, energy, education, healthcare, finance, retail and not‑for‑profit organisations. The finalists list — spanning public‑sector cyber teams, critical infrastructure operators and large private enterprises —...

Microsoft’s public enforcement action in late September — disabling a set of Azure storage and AI subscriptions for a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense — exposed how the technical architecture of modern cloud platforms can be repurposed into instruments of mass surveillance, and forced a reckoning over what terms of service, corporate values, and national-security relationships actually mean in the age of hyperscale AI. Background The controversy began with a joint investigative...

I began using Windows 11 in beta in 2021 and, over several major releases, learned a handful of practical, time‑saving adjustments that turned the upgrade from “annoying compatibility shuffle” into a smoother daily driver — and those same five fixes are the heart of Tom’s Guide’s quick primer for new upgraders. The essentials are simple: reclaim your taskbar, switch Windows to Dark Mode, adopt Microsoft PowerToys, tidy the Start menu (turn off suggestions and pin the folders you actually...

Microsoft is rolling out an AI-driven tidy-up for the Windows 11 Photos app that automatically sorts images into four practical categories—Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes—as a preview to Windows Insiders running the updated Photos build on Copilot+ PCs. Background Microsoft has been steadily converting the Photos app from a passive viewer into a productivity surface by adding features such as OCR, Super Resolution upscaling, and generative editing throughout 2024–2025...

Valve’s quiet effort to keep a 13‑year‑old Radeon GPU working on modern Linux is a vivid reminder that software maintenance—and who chooses to do it—matters as much as hardware age when it comes to device longevity. While Microsoft prepares to stop regular updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, a single contractor tied to Valve is pushing kernel patches that resolve display flicker, avoid platform hangs, and tighten clock‑management behavior for AMD’s Southern Islands (Radeon HD 7000)...

PC shipments to the United States cooled in Q2 2025, slipping 1.4% year‑on‑year to about 18.6 million units, even as the commercial sector expanded and vendors doubled down on marketing AI-capable PCs ahead of the Windows 10 end‑of‑support deadline. Background The broader story behind the soft headline lies in two overlapping dynamics: tactical inventory management by vendors in response to tariff volatility, and structural demand differences between business buyers and consumers as the...

A recent Business Column in the Norman Transcript — “Privacy and computers should go together, Part Three” — picks up the same thread readers have been arguing about for years: the convenience of modern computing increasingly clashes with the privacy expectations of everyday users, and the trade-offs being baked into platforms today are not neutral or accidental. That tension is visible in new Windows features, vendor “connected experiences,” and the rapid rollout of on-device and cloud AI...

President Trump’s public demand that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco has transformed what began as a corporate hire into a high-stakes clash over national security, federal contracting, and corporate independence — and it raises immediate, concrete questions about what private-sector executives can and cannot access, how cloud vendors police customer misuse, and how far a sitting president can legitimately push a private company on personnel decisions. Background Who is Lisa Monaco and why her...

Space42 has announced plans to build what it calls the UAE’s first Sovereign Mobility Cloud, a dedicated, sovereign-enabled cloud platform for smart mobility and autonomous systems that combines Space42’s operational mobility stack with Core42’s Sovereign Public Cloud and Microsoft Azure to keep mobility data and workloads inside the UAE while accelerating pilots, mapping, fleet operations and regulatory sandboxes. Background / Overview Space42 unveiled the initiative on the sidelines of the...

OLED has gone from a niche premium option to a mainstream laptop feature in India, and this year’s crop of machines proves why: richer blacks, vastly higher contrast ratios, and dramatically improved color accuracy make OLED laptops a compelling choice for creators, commuters, and anyone who spends long hours in front of a screen. The market snapshot compiled from recent retail roundups and OEM pages shows strong offerings across ultraportables, 2‑in‑1 convertibles, and gaming notebooks —...

ASUS and Xbox have opened pre-orders for two new handheld Windows gaming PCs — the ROG Xbox Ally and the higher‑end ROG Xbox Ally X — promising a console‑like, controller‑first experience built on Windows 11 and tuned jointly by ASUS and Microsoft to bring Game Pass, installed PC libraries, and cloud streaming into a compact, ergonomic form factor. Pre-orders begin late September with on‑shelf availability scheduled for October 16, 2025; the ROG Xbox Ally is positioned as the value‑focused...

Microsoft has made Windows ML generally available, delivering a built-in, on-device AI inference runtime for Windows 11 that aims to let developers run ONNX models across CPUs, GPUs and NPUs without requiring cloud trips for every inference. Background: why this release matters Windows ML (Windows Machine Learning) was first shown publicly at Microsoft Build 2025 and moved from preview to general availability in late September 2025. The runtime is shipped as part of the Windows App SDK...

Microsoft’s latest push into voice and agent AI marks a decisive expansion of Copilot’s capabilities: a high-performance, in‑house speech generator and a new text model intended to power agentic experiences, paired with a broader, multi‑model strategy that lets enterprises mix and match providers. The practical result is a Copilot platform that can speak faster and more naturally than before, run lightweight speech inference on a single GPU, and tap alternative language models — but the...

The ChatGPT-era lexicon has become part of everyday tech conversation, and the 57-term glossary shared on bahiaverdade is a useful, plain‑language battery of definitions that captures both the practical tools and the philosophical flashpoints of modern AI. Background The pace of change in generative AI has outstripped public literacy: products and acronyms now appear faster than most readers can learn what they mean. That gap has produced a demand for approachable glossaries — lists that...

Seelen UI offers a quick, surprisingly polished way to make a Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC look and behave more like a Linux desktop or macOS — but it also brings clear trade-offs in performance, security, and manageability that every power user and IT pro needs to weigh before installing it. Background / Overview Seelen UI is a community-driven, web-first desktop environment that runs on top of Windows. Instead of a single cosmetic tweak, it replaces or overlays core shell surfaces — the...

Microsoft is testing an AI-powered Auto‑Categorization feature in the Windows 11 Microsoft Photos app that scans local photo libraries and automatically groups images into four focused buckets — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes — with the preview currently rolling out to Windows Insiders on Copilot+ PCs. Background / Overview Microsoft has been steadily embedding AI into core Windows experiences and native apps, and the Photos app has moved from a basic image viewer into...