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Talkdesk’s partnership with Microsoft just took a practical turn: Talkdesk Workspace can now be embedded directly inside Microsoft Teams, and Talkdesk’s Customer Experience Automation (CXA) is being promoted as a cloud-deliverable AI orchestration layer for contact centers — an integration strategy that aims to collapse app-switching, accelerate agent productivity, and position multi‑agent AI where work already happens. This development tightens the vendor relationship around Microsoft’s...

Fortude’s announcement that it has earned the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization is a clear, program-level validation of the company’s ability to design, deploy and operate enterprise analytics solutions on Azure, and it positions the firm to capitalize on Microsoft go‑to‑market pathways while increasing procurement confidence for Azure-first analytics projects. Background: what Fortude announced and why it matters Fortude published a GlobeNewswire release on September 30, 2025...

GitHub’s secret scanning now includes built‑in validators for MongoDB, Meta (Facebook), and multiple Microsoft Azure token types, expanding the service’s ability to tell you not just that a secret was leaked but whether that secret is still usable — a capability that meaningfully changes how development teams triage and remediate exposed credentials. Background / Overview Secret scanning has long been one of the highest‑leverage features in modern code security: automated detection of API...

October will bring a cluster of legal, commercial and practical changes that will affect travel, housing, digital security and even how Swiss forests are handled — readers should prepare now and act deliberately where consequences are immediate. Background / Overview Switzerland and its residents face several consequential changes taking effect in October, ranging from international trade and border-management systems to domestic tenancy rules, public-health measures in forests and a major...

Microsoft’s long-running tug-of-war over whether taskbar searches belong in Edge/Bing or in the browser you actually set as default may finally be moving toward a resolution — experimental flags in Microsoft Edge Canary strongly suggest Windows 11 could start handing web queries from the taskbar to your chosen browser and search engine instead of forcing them into Edge and Bing. Background For many Windows users the mismatch has been obvious: you set Chrome or Firefox as the default browser...

Microsoft has begun the staged rollout of the Windows 11 2025 Update — version 25H2 — and for most users the upgrade will feel familiar: a small, quick enablement package for machines already on the 2024 platform, and a standard installer route for machines on older releases. The update is arriving as an optional, manually triggered feature update through Windows Update starting September 30, 2025, with phased availability that will expand to more hardware over the coming weeks and months...

Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 deadline for Windows 10 support is now a live business constraint for UK organisations: the operating system will no longer receive security patches or technical assistance, the consumer extended update pathway being restricted by region and paid enterprise lifelines set to climb steeply in cost — a combination that leaves many British firms facing heightened ransomware exposure, compliance headaches, and urgent migration bills. Background Windows 10 reached the...

UiPath’s agentic automation platform has taken a concrete step toward native cross‑cloud AI orchestration by integrating Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry capabilities — a move that wires Microsoft’s model catalog, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tooling, and Copilot experiences into UiPath’s Maestro orchestration, with the explicit goal of letting enterprise teams run mixed vendor AI agents inside governed, auditable workflows. Background / Overview Enterprises are rapidly shifting from isolated AI...

Cisco’s latest WebexOne rollout marks a deliberate shift from “AI that helps” to AI that acts — a suite of agentic capabilities spanning the Webex App, collaboration devices, and Control Hub that are explicitly designed to let digital agents execute routine work, coordinate follow‑up, and assist IT operations while keeping governance and security front and center. Background / Overview Cisco framed the announcements at WebexOne as part of a broader strategy it calls Connected Intelligence...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot experiment is trying to make talking to an AI feel less like tapping keys and more like having a conversation—with an animated face to match—but the early rollout reveals the thin line between approachable design and uncanny, privacy‑heavy interaction that many users may find off‑putting. Background Microsoft announced a new Copilot Labs experiment called Portraits that places a stylized, animated face in the Copilot voice experience so users can speak, listen, and...

NASA’s Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) dataset is now hosted on Microsoft’s Planetary Computer, bringing a multi-petabyte, harmonized archive of 30‑meter, analysis‑ready surface reflectance imagery into a scalable Azure environment and making high‑frequency Earth observation workflows easier to run at cloud scale. This new availability lets researchers, developers, and enterprise teams combine HLS’s frequent revisit, harmonized spectral response, and standardized Cloud‑Optimized...

Fortude’s new Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization is more than a plaque in the partner hall of fame — it’s a concrete market signal that the company has met Microsoft’s structured, measurable bar for delivering enterprise analytics on Azure, and it comes at a moment when Microsoft’s data stack (Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Databricks) is becoming the de facto architecture for large-scale analytics programs...

Microsoft’s decision to stop routine support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, is now official — a hard deadline that forces choices for every home user, small business, and IT department still running the decade‑old platform. Microsoft will cease issuing regular OS security updates, feature and quality updates, and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions on that date; the company is offering a narrowly scoped set of transition paths — a one‑year consumer Extended...

Microsoft’s free Windows 11 paths remain the safest route for most users—but with Windows 10 reaching end of support, know the official options, the simple how‑tos, and the real risks if you try to bypass Microsoft’s checks with third‑party tools like Rufus. Background / Overview Microsoft has fixed October 14, 2025 as the end‑of‑support date for Windows 10: after that day Home, Pro, Enterprise and other mainstream editions stop receiving security updates, feature updates, and official...

LockBit 5.0 has reappeared as a materially different ransomware threat — one built to strike Windows, Linux and VMware ESXi hosts in the same campaign — and its arrival forces organizations to reframe backups, hypervisors and incident response as crown-jewel assets rather than secondary targets. Background LockBit is a long‑running Ransomware‑as‑a‑Service (RaaS) operation that grew from early tooling first seen in 2019 into one of the most prolific extortion networks of the last half‑decade...

Microsoft has begun the public rollout of Windows 11 version 25H2, a lightweight enablement-package update that mostly resets the support clock and prepares devices for future feature drops rather than delivering a sweeping set of new consumer features. Background Microsoft’s annual feature-update cadence for Windows 11 continues to favor incremental, service-driven releases. Version 25H2 is being delivered as an enablement package (eKB) — essentially a small “switch” that activates features...

Microsoft published KB5065789 on September 29, 2025 as an optional Release Preview package for Windows 11 that stitches together a set of targeted quality fixes—most notably a remediation for DRM/HDCP‑protected playback failures that affected some Blu‑ray, DVD and digital‑TV applications—while continuing to stage several AI, accessibility and UI polishes behind gradual, region‑ and license‑gated rollouts. Background / Overview KB5065789 arrives as a non‑security, preview cumulative for the...

Microsoft has added xAI’s Grok 4 Fast models to Azure AI Foundry, a move confirmed by Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry blog and publicly acknowledged in a terse exchange between Elon Musk and Satya Nadella that underscored the strategic optics of hosting third‑party frontier models on hyperscaler platforms. Background / Overview Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft’s curated model catalog and hosting surface designed to let enterprises pick, deploy, govern, and operate third‑party and Microsoft models...

Fortude’s announcement that it has been awarded the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization marks a significant step in the company’s Microsoft partnership trajectory and confirms that its analytics practice has met Microsoft’s prescriptive performance, skilling, and audit gates. Background Since Microsoft overhauled its partner framework, the Solutions Partner designations and workload-specific specializations have become the industry’s primary, measurable signals of verified Azure...

Microsoft has quietly reunited the bulk of Windows engineering under a single leadership umbrella in a strategic reorganization intended to accelerate an “Agentic OS” roadmap — a move that collapses several years of platform/client splits and signals Microsoft’s intent to bake on‑device and hybrid AI deeper into Windows. Background For much of the past decade Microsoft ran Windows engineering across two broad silos: client and experience teams on one side, and many low‑level platform teams...