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The window to turn your Windows 11 device refresh into a strategic advantage is closing fast — organisations that act now can convert a mandatory migration into measurable gains in security, productivity and cost control, while those that delay risk running unpatched systems, rising support bills and lost operational agility. Background / Overview The industry narrative for 2025 has crystallised around one calendar fact: Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025. After that date...

Capcom has told PC players it “will no longer guarantee” that Monster Hunter Wilds — along with Monster Hunter Rise and Monster Hunter: World — will run on machines still using Windows 10 after Microsoft’s formal end‑of‑support milestone on October 14, 2025, and that warning changes the maintenance and risk calculus for hundreds of thousands of PC hunters. Background / Overview Microsoft has set a firm end‑of‑support date for consumer Windows 10: after October 14, 2025 Windows 10 will no...

Microsoft’s September platform refresh for Xbox shipped with more than a few tidy UI fixes — but also with clear strategic intent: make Xbox’s services feel less like separate islands and more like one living, cross-device ecosystem built around discovery, cloud saves, and on‑demand AI help. The update, which began rolling out across Xbox consoles and the Xbox PC app in late September, mixes visible user-facing features (an aggregated PC library, Game Bar enhancements, clearer save-sync UI)...

Microsoft has quietly begun rolling out a new phase in its AI-first strategy for Office: Agent Mode inside Word and Excel, and a cross‑app Office Agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — features designed to make complex, multi‑step work feel more like handing a brief to an expert and less like wrestling with repetitive UI tasks. Background / Overview Microsoft’s latest push—branded internally around the idea of “vibe working”—moves beyond single‑prompt assistance toward agentic workflows...

Microsoft’s push to make frontier models accessible to enterprise customers took a new turn this week as Azure AI Foundry added xAI’s Grok 4 Fast family to its model catalog — a move that pairs Grok’s long-context, tool-enabled reasoning with Azure’s identity, governance, and operational controls. The announcement means developers and IT teams can now deploy grok-4-fast-reasoning and grok-4-fast-non-reasoning inside Azure’s managed surface, with explicit pricing and Foundry integration that...

Userful’s new Infinity EdgeAI preview promises to move mission-critical control rooms and factory floors from passive monitoring to active, on-premises cognitive intelligence by applying containerized AI agents at the edge to detect anomalies, deliver context, and trigger human-in-the-loop workflows in real time. Background / Overview Userful — the company behind the software-defined Userful Infinity platform — has introduced Infinity EdgeAI (preview), an edge-native AI add-on that the...

Washington State University Tri‑Cities is expanding its community-oriented AI training with a second in‑person session of “Generative AI Essentials: Workplace Applications & Ethical Use” at 9 a.m. on Thursday, October 2, after an energetic inaugural workshop drew strong interest from health care, government and local business professionals. Background Washington State University Tri‑Cities’ continuing education arm, Cougar Tracks, launched the three‑hour Generative AI Essentials workshop in...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update pushes Office deeper into agentic automation with a new productivity pattern Microsoft is calling “vibe working”, pairing an in‑canvas Agent Mode inside Excel and Word with a chat‑first Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot — a shift from single‑turn suggestions to steerable, multi‑step AI that plans, acts, validates and iterates inside the document itself. Background / Overview Microsoft has been steadily evolving Copilot from a contextual helper into a...

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A major enterprise IT support bottleneck — high volumes of routine tickets, long wait times, and distracted engineers — can be turned into an automated, low-friction employee experience by tightly integrating Amazon Connect with Microsoft Teams. AWS’s technical walkthrough shows how a global financial services organization used Amazon Connect as a CCaaS platform and a Teams-embedded Azure Bot to expose AI-driven self-service, omnichannel routing, and intelligent escalation inside the tools...

Windows Insiders received a quietly odd patch this week: the latest Beta and Dev preview packages add a handful of small but useful features — a one‑click network speed test in the taskbar and a Copilot onboarding screen during Get Started — and then, without fanfare or explanation, Microsoft temporarily turned off Emoji 16.0 in the Beta build. The move is notable because Emoji 16.0 had only just begun to appear across Windows 11 surfaces, and the rollback was stated tersely in the patch...

Microsoft’s push to make AI do more of the heavy lifting in Office just took a decisive step: the company is marketing a new productivity pattern called vibe working, powered by an in‑canvas Agent Mode in Excel and Word and a complementary Office Agent that runs from Microsoft 365 Copilot chat. These agents are designed to accept plain‑English briefs, decompose them into stepwise plans, execute actions inside the document or workbook, surface intermediate artifacts for review, and iterate...

Microsoft has moved the bulk of Windows engineering back under a single leader as part of a broad reorganization intended to accelerate an “Agentic OS” strategy—bringing Core OS, client, server, security, data intelligence, and engineering systems into one organization led by Pavan Davuluri, a change the company says will help deliver deeper AI-driven, multimodal experiences across Windows. Background Since 2018 Microsoft split core Windows platform work between the Windows organization and...

If your Windows 10 PC is approaching the end-of-support cliff, moving to Linux is a realistic and often smart choice — but it requires honest trade-offs, careful testing, and a migration plan that protects what you can’t afford to lose. Background / Overview Microsoft will stop shipping security updates and technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions after October 14, 2025 — a hard deadline that forces a decision for many users: upgrade to Windows 11 (if your hardware supports it)...

Microsoft has pushed fresh Insider preview updates into the Dev and Beta channels—delivered as cumulative update KB5065793—which advance Dev machines to Windows 11 build 26220.6760 (25H2) and Beta machines to build 26120.6760 (24H2). The flight is small on paper but notable in practice: it bundles the latest Copilot‑driven File Explorer search experiments, a quick-access network speed test in the taskbar flyouts, and minor but visible consumer onboarding changes (the Get Started app now...

Microsoft has quietly pushed an optional Release Preview package—KB5065789—to Windows 11 systems running 24H2, packaging a cluster of AI-first productivity hooks, accessibility improvements and small but meaningful UI tweaks that preview what many users can expect to see more broadly in October’s Patch Tuesday roll‑out. Background / Overview Microsoft delivered KB5065789 to the Release Preview channel on September 12, 2025 as an optional (non‑security) preview update that raises 24H2 and...

Microsoft has set a firm deadline: Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, and Canadian users now face a practical choice — upgrade, buy time with a paid or account‑linked safety net, or accept growing security and compatibility risks. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle policy for Windows 10 has been public and predictable, but the clock is now unambiguous. On October 14, 2025, routine security updates, feature and quality updates, and standard technical support for...

iboss Platform Release 10.4: what the announcement means for Zero Trust SASE and enterprise data protection On September 29, 2025, industry coverage reported that iboss rolled out “Platform Release 10.4,” positioning the update as a material step forward for its Zero Trust SASE platform with a heavy focus on advanced data protection and tighter integrations with enterprise data governance controls. The vendor’s continued emphasis on Zero Trust SASE — combining ZTNA, SWG, CASB, DLP and...

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is available today in Microsoft Copilot Studio, delivering Anthropic’s newest Sonnet-class model into Microsoft’s agent-building and orchestration surface and giving enterprise teams another high‑capability backend to choose when designing Copilot agents. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot platform has evolved from a single‑model productivity assistant into a model‑agnostic orchestration layer that can route workloads to different LLM providers depending on task fit...

Microsoft has quietly moved a major chunk of Windows engineering back under one roof, a structural consolidation designed to accelerate a bold, AI-first vision for the operating system that Microsoft executives now describe as an “Agentic OS.” Background Since 2018 Microsoft’s Windows engineering was effectively split: surface‑level experiences and client UI work lived in the Windows organization while many of the platform‑level teams — kernel, virtualization, storage and other core...