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Valve will stop supporting Steam on 32‑bit Windows systems on January 1, 2026 — a move that affects a vanishingly small slice of the PC gaming population but signals a permanent industry shift away from 32‑bit desktop platforms and toward exclusive 64‑bit support. Background The end of Steam's official support for Windows 10 32‑bit arrives at the tail end of a wider platform lifecycle: Microsoft itself has scheduled Windows 10 mainstream servicing to end on October 14, 2025, with an optional...

HDR on Windows 11 can completely change how games and movies look — but getting it right still requires careful setup, the right hardware, and patient calibration. This guide walks through everything a Windows 11 user needs to configure HDR correctly: from the essential compatibility checks and quick enable steps to deep calibration, GPU and cable settings, Auto HDR tuning for games, and the most common failure modes with practical fixes. The goal is a vivid, accurate HDR experience — not...

With Microsoft continuing to push AI into the heart of Windows while simultaneously shipping iterative Windows 11 updates, the question most users and IT managers are asking is simple but pressing: will Windows 12 arrive in late 2025 or early 2026 — and if so, what will it actually change? The short answer is: there is strong industry momentum toward a next‑generation Windows shaped by deep AI integration, Copilot+ hardware, and a more modular architecture, but Microsoft has not formally...

Microsoft has quietly delivered on a long-teased promise: an AI assistant that can sit beside you while you play, answer questions out loud, analyze what’s on your screen, and help you track achievements — and it’s now rolling out to Windows 11 via the PC Game Bar as Gaming Copilot. The rollout begins on September 18, 2025 for players aged 18 and older on Windows, with wider mobile support arriving in October through the Xbox app; Microsoft says the feature will be available everywhere...

Microsoft’s recent nudge to users — asking “what do you miss most in Windows?” — is more than a PR moment; it’s a revealing sign that the company is wrestling with conflicting priorities for Windows 11: glossy AI capabilities and the long list of everyday quality‑of‑life features that power users, creatives, and nostalgic Windows veterans still crave. The exchange, spotlighted by a Microsoft engineer’s outreach during the company’s global hackathon conversation, has pushed long‑standing asks...

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Anthropic’s latest public dataset and a fresh wave of industry reporting make one thing uncomfortably clear: artificial intelligence is not drifting into the mainstream — it’s charging in, and its adoption pattern is already reshaping who benefits and who lags behind. The company’s September 15, 2025 Anthropic Economic Index (AEX) maps Claude usage across 150+ countries and every U.S. state, showing dramatic geographic concentration, rapid enterprise automation, and a marked shift from...

Microsoft’s stock showed only a modest pullback on the trading day covered by the GuruFocus bulletin, but the options market painted a subtly different picture — one of cautious positioning and a noticeable tilt toward downside protection among sophisticated traders. The headline numbers are straightforward: shares down roughly $0.66 to about $509.36, roughly 204,000 options contracts traded, a put/call ratio near 0.35, and a 30‑day implied volatility (IV30) around 20.2 — implying an...

Valve’s Steam client will stop supporting 32‑bit editions of Windows on January 1, 2026, a decision that closes the final mainstream chapter for 32‑bit Windows on the platform and forces a small—but real—cohort of users to migrate, back up data, or accept an unsupported client. Background / Overview Steam’s shift away from 32‑bit Windows is the latest step in a multi‑year trend across the PC ecosystem: developers, browser engines, anti‑cheat vendors, and operating‑system vendors have...

Microsoft has set an immovable deadline: on October 14, 2025, mainstream support for Windows 10 ends — and with it the routine security updates, feature and quality patches, and standard technical assistance that have kept billions of PCs running safely for a decade. For consumers and small businesses this is not an academic date; it changes the threat model overnight and forces concrete decisions: upgrade to Windows 11 where possible, buy time with Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security...

Microsoft’s new full‑screen Xbox experience for Windows handhelds—sold as a controller‑first, console‑style shell—has begun appearing on existing Windows handheld PCs ahead of the ROG Xbox Ally family’s retail debut, with enthusiasts enabling the interface via Windows 11 25H2 preview builds and community tweaks; the result is an accelerated public preview, anecdotal performance gains, and fresh questions about stability, support, and the future of handheld Windows gaming. Background /...

Microsoft's new handheld-focused, full‑screen Xbox interface for Windows 11 can already be unlocked on many in‑market Windows handhelds thanks to a Release Preview of the Windows 11 25H2 update and a handful of community-discovered switches — meaning you don't have to wait for the ROG Xbox Ally's October 16 launch to try the console‑style experience on devices like the Asus ROG Ally. Background / Overview Microsoft and ASUS announced the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X as co‑developed...

Windhawk arrives as a surprisingly polished bridge between what Microsoft ships in Windows 11 and what many users actually want: a lightweight, open‑source mod platform that makes the Start menu, taskbar, File Explorer and other core UI elements genuinely customizable — and, in many cases, restores behaviors users lost after upgrading from Windows 10. Background Windows 11 introduced a cleaner, more opinionated UI: centered taskbar icons, a simplified Start menu, and refreshed system...

Microsoft’s Click To Do is the kind of small change that can quietly rearrange how you work: a system-level overlay that turns whatever is on your screen—text, images, even tables—into actionable items you can edit, summarize, or hand off to Copilot, all without leaving the context of your desktop. Background / Overview Click To Do began as an offshoot of Microsoft’s earlier projects to make screen content more useful—tools like Windows Recall and expanded screenshot utilities—but it has...

Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20250910 quietly introduces an optional Linux 6.12 LTS hardware‑enablement (HWE) kernel, giving Azure customers a supported path to newer device drivers and platform features while preserving the conservative, proven 6.6 LTS kernel as the default. Background / Overview Azure Linux — the rebranded successor to CBL‑Mariner — has been Microsoft’s lightweight, container‑optimized host distribution for Azure services, AKS node images, WSL integration and numerous...

Microsoft has quietly — and perhaps unnecessarily — turned the simplest text editor in Windows into another battleground in the company’s AI-first strategy: Notepad now offers Summarize, Write, and Rewrite powered by on-device models when run on Copilot+ PCs, with Microsoft’s Windows Insider announcements confirming the features arrive without a subscription requirement on qualifying hardware. Background Notepad began life as a spare, ultra‑lightweight text editor included with Windows for...

The race to build the world’s most powerful AI infrastructure has moved out of labs and into entire campuses, and Microsoft’s new Fairwater facility in Wisconsin is the clearest expression yet of that shift — a purpose-built AI factory that stitches together hundreds of thousands of accelerators, racks of NVLink‑connected GPUs, exabyte‑scale storage and a bespoke cooling and power estate to deliver frontier‑scale training and inference at hyperscale. Background Microsoft’s announcement of...

The London Stock Exchange Group’s new Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI) — built in collaboration with Microsoft and running on Microsoft Azure — has gone live for tokenised private funds and already processed its first commercial transaction, marking a deliberate shift from pilot projects to production-grade, cloud-hosted market infrastructure. Background LSEG and Microsoft announced a multi-year strategic partnership in 2022 that laid the groundwork for migrating LSEG products to Azure...

Valve will stop supporting 32‑bit editions of Windows in the Steam client on January 1, 2026, a move that closes the final mainstream chapter of 32‑bit desktop support on Steam and forces a small—but real—group of users to migrate, back up data, or accept an unsupported client. Background Valve’s announcement — widely reported across gaming press on September 18, 2025 — states that Windows 10 (32‑bit) is the only 32‑bit Windows SKU Steam still lists as supported and that support for all...

Windows 11’s Dev Drive is one of those under-the-radar features that can materially shorten build times, speed up repository operations, and reduce the friction of daily developer work—provided you use it the way Microsoft intended. In short: Dev Drive is a ReFS-formatted storage volume tuned for developer workloads, combined with a Defender “performance mode” that defers synchronous scanning for files on that volume. The result is measurable and repeatable improvement on many common tasks...