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Asus and Microsoft have opened pre-orders for two new Xbox-branded ROG handhelds — the ROG Xbox Ally (base) and the higher‑end ROG Xbox Ally X — with an official on‑shelf launch date set for October 16, 2025 and U.S. estimated retail prices at roughly $599.99 for the Ally and $999.99 for the Ally X. These devices marry ASUS’ ROG handheld engineering with an Xbox‑centered Windows 11 experience, and they mark Microsoft’s biggest push yet to put a full Windows‑powered, Xbox‑branded portable...

Google Cloud has publicly reminded regulators that it filed a formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices one year ago — and warns that little has changed while competitors, customers and regulators continue to grapple with pricing, portability and potential vendor lock‑in. Background / Overview Google’s renewed public appeal centers on a single set of allegations: Microsoft’s licensing rules for core server and productivity software (notably Windows Server, SQL...

Cru Uncorked’s playful "Sommelier Showdown" that pitted three human sommeliers against Microsoft Copilot produced a narrow victory for the humans — but the experiment delivered a far richer takeaway: AI can reliably suggest classical, crowd-friendly pairings, yet it still leans on human data, inventory grounding and interaction to reach restaurant-ready usefulness. Background / Overview Cru Uncorked is a fine‑dining restaurant housed in a countryside chateau just outside Cleveland that...

Microsoft’s newest server release is already generating painful operational lessons: administrators who add a Windows Server 2025 domain controller into a mixed Active Directory environment containing older DCs can trigger widespread authentication breakage — machine account password rotations fail, domain logons stall, and remediation can require awkward, high‑risk edits or a full DC upgrade to regain stability. The problem surfaced in community reports and a German technical blog post...

The Lakeville Park Commission’s unanimous vote to spend roughly $60.68 to extend support for a single Windows 10 computer at ClearPond Park crystallizes a small but telling moment where municipal operations meet the end of a major software lifecycle—and where pragmatic, cost-driven decisions collide with cyber risk and procurement complexity. The September 25, 2025 meeting record shows the commission chose the lowest‑friction path to keep the park’s systems running for another year, while...

Millions of PCs across India are now racing against a hard calendar: Microsoft will stop issuing routine security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, a change that turns otherwise functional machines into progressively riskier targets and forces a squeeze between costly hardware refreshes, paid extended support, or risky continued use. Microsoft’s official lifecycle notices make the date unambiguous, and the company has published exact options for consumers and enterprises—free...

Google quietly shipped a small Windows app that, in one practical move, exposes how rough Microsoft’s built‑in search and launcher experience still is — and why third‑party solutions continue to outshine first‑party features on modern Windows desktops. Background / Overview In mid‑September, Google released an experimental "Google app for Windows" through its Search Labs program. The app installs like a lightweight utility, registers a global hotkey (Alt + Space by default), and surfaces a...

Law firms that once met generative AI with suspicion are now using a repeatable playbook — pilot, govern, verify, scale — to turn skeptics into internal AI champions while protecting client confidentiality and professional duty. Background / Overview The last 18–24 months forced a reckoning inside legal practices: lawyers across firm sizes began experimenting with generative AI for drafting, research, contract review, and triage, but widespread, auditable deployment remains the exception...

OpenAI has pushed ChatGPT further into the workplace this week with a trio of work‑focused updates — shared projects, an expanded slate of connectors to pull data from popular apps, and tightened security and compliance controls — moves aimed at making the assistant a persistent, team-aware workspace tool rather than a one-off chat helper. Background and overview OpenAI’s recent announcements formalize a pattern we've seen all year: gradually moving ChatGPT from a personal assistant into an...

Microsoft’s deadline is now unavoidable: Windows 10 will stop receiving regular security updates on October 14, 2025, and the immediate fallout in India—where millions of machines still run Windows 10—has forced consumers, small businesses, and large organisations into a compressed set of expensive choices: upgrade to Windows 11 where possible, buy time with paid Extended Security Updates (ESU), or continue running increasingly vulnerable systems. This forced transition has ignited demand...

Microsoft’s last-minute concession is a win for European consumers: the company will provide a one-year, no-cost extension of critical security updates for Windows 10 users inside the European Economic Area (EEA), while users elsewhere still face a mixed bag of free-but‑conditional enrollment, a modest paid option, or redeemable Microsoft Rewards points to keep receiving security fixes after the operating system’s official end-of-support date. Background: what changed and why it matters...

Microsoft’s partial disablement of Azure services to a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defense has exposed a layered tragedy: independent investigations show a cloud‑backed surveillance pipeline capable of ingesting and indexing vast quantities of Palestinian phone calls, Microsoft’s own review confirmed elements of that reporting, and civil‑society witnesses — most prominently the RINJ Foundation — say that the fallout of that surveillance was a direct, deadly link to a north Gaza birthing...

ZainTECH and Microsoft used a tightly focused executive summit in Kuwait City to move the country’s AI ambitions from rhetoric to delivery, laying out the technical building blocks – a local, AI‑capable Azure Region, secured private connectivity, and Copilot‑led productivity tools – that Kuwait’s public sector will lean on as it implements Vision 2035. Background Kuwait’s Vision 2035 sets a long‑range goal of economic diversification, modern public services, and technology‑driven...

Microsoft has disabled a set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an expanded review concluded there was evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged Microsoft technology was used to ingest, store and analyse large volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications. Background The episode began with a high-profile investigative package that documented an alleged, bespoke cloud-backed surveillance pipeline...

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Anthropic’s decision to triple its international workforce and expand its customer help team fivefold in 2025 marks a decisive pivot from Bay Area scaling to global market execution — a move driven by an explosive surge in enterprise demand for Claude and underpinned by fresh capital that values the company at roughly $183 billion. Background / Overview Anthropic launched Claude as a safety-first large language model and quickly positioned the product for enterprise use, carving out a...

Microsoft has quietly widened the palette of AI brains available inside Microsoft 365 Copilot by adding two of Anthropic’s Claude models—Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1—so enterprise users can now pick the model that best fits a task instead of relying solely on OpenAI’s offerings. Background Microsoft’s move to add Anthropic models to Microsoft 365 Copilot was announced in late September 2025 and represents a clear shift toward multi‑model choice inside the productivity assistant many...

Microsoft has quietly but decisively retooled the architecture of Microsoft 365 Copilot: Anthropic’s Claude family — specifically Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 — is now a selectable backend inside key Copilot surfaces, giving organizations real model choice inside Researcher and Copilot Studio while keeping OpenAI and Microsoft models fully in the mix. Background / Overview Microsoft built Copilot as a productivity-first layer that extends Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams...

Microsoft’s deadline for Windows 10 support is real, immovable, and just weeks away: on October 14, 2025 Microsoft will stop shipping routine feature, quality and security updates for consumer Windows 10, and that forces every Windows 10 user to make a clear, time‑bound decision now. Background / Overview Microsoft set October 14, 2025 as the formal end‑of‑support date for Windows 10. After that date, the operating system will still boot and run, but Microsoft will no longer provide the...

Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 deadline for Windows 10 support creates an unavoidable security and operational inflection point: tens or hundreds of millions of devices will either move to a maintained platform or begin aging into unsupported status that attracts attackers, complicates compliance, and raises difficult procurement and environmental trade‑offs. Background Microsoft formally states that Windows 10 mainstream support ends on October 14, 2025 — after that date routine software...