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Microsoft’s decision to expand its Wisconsin AI campus with an additional $4 billion — bringing total investment in the Mount Pleasant/Racine County site to more than $7 billion — is a clear signal that the company intends to cement Azure’s role as an AI infrastructure leader, and the announcement has immediate strategic, financial and systemic implications for cloud, chip supply chains, energy use and even crypto markets. Background / Overview Microsoft first disclosed the Mount Pleasant AI...

Satya Nadella’s blunt message to Microsoft employees — that the company must undergo a “messy” and relentless transformation to survive the AI era — captures a high-stakes strategy that is already reshaping products, teams, and internal culture across the company. Background Microsoft’s leadership has publicly framed the last two years as a structural pivot from traditional software businesses to an AI-first platform and services company. That strategy elevates Copilot — Microsoft’s family...

Microsoft’s Xbox Copilot branding is surfacing in two very different ways across the PC ecosystem this month — one familiar and hardware-focused, the other new and AI-driven — and the overlap is creating both promising accessibility gains and real confusion about what’s actually available to Windows players right now. The short version: Microsoft has rolled out Gaming Copilot (Beta) inside the Xbox Game Bar on Windows for Xbox Insiders as an AI assistant for in-game help, while a...

Microsoft’s Copilot promises to turn the hours you spend wrestling with emails, spreadsheets, and slide decks into a few focused minutes — and the differences between “promise” and “product” matter. The Geeky Gadgets primer supplied by the user captures that enthusiasm, laying out Copilot’s tiers, core features, and real-world use cases for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams. Background / Overview Microsoft Copilot is a generative AI assistant embedded across the Microsoft 365...

Microsoft is rolling AI into the smallest, most ubiquitous text editor on Windows — Notepad — by adding on‑device generative features for Copilot+ PCs, and the changes signal a meaningful shift in how Microsoft blends local and cloud AI across Windows inbox apps. Overview Notepad’s September Insider update (Notepad version 11.2508.28.0) introduces three built‑in generative actions — Summarize, Write, and Rewrite — and for compatible machines these can run completely locally on the device’s...

London’s AI infrastructure landscape has just been upended: Nscale, the UK-based AI infrastructure company, announced plans to build a multi‑megawatt AI campus in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI that partners say will house one of the country’s most powerful AI supercomputers and anchor a broader national push to deploy tens of thousands of Blackwell‑generation GPUs in UK data centres. Background / Overview The announcements in mid‑September crystallise a shift from policy and...

Valve will stop supporting 32‑bit Windows for the Steam client on January 1, 2026, closing a long tail of legacy compatibility while leaving 32‑bit game binaries runnable on modern systems. Background / Overview The move is narrowly scoped: Steam’s announced cutover targets 32‑bit editions of Windows, and in practice that currently means Windows 10 (32‑bit) — the only 32‑bit Windows SKU Steam still lists as supported today. Steam’s own telemetry and the industry press place the affected...

Omnissa’s message at Omnissa ONE 2025 was unmistakable: after the spin‑out from the VMware era, the company has sharpened its narrative around consolidation, choice, and pragmatic automation — and it’s laying out a product roadmap intended to turn that rhetoric into concrete operational value for IT teams managing endpoints, virtual desktops, servers and apps. Background / Overview Omnissa launched as an independent company following the carve‑out from VMware and the KKR acquisition...

A new, age-focused guide to Microsoft’s latest desktop — promoted in a recent press release distributed via EIN Presswire and republished on regional outlets — aims to tackle one of the fastest-growing barriers to digital inclusion: tech anxiety among older adults. The announcement positions Windows 11 for Seniors as a compassionate, patient primer that emphasizes accessibility, large-type formatting, step-by-step walkthroughs, and practical safety advice, while also introducing readers to...

Microsoft has quietly turned Notepad into a small but capable generative writing assistant by adding three on-device AI tools — Summarize, Write, and Rewrite — that run locally on qualifying Windows 11 machines without forcing users into a subscription. Background Notepad’s identity has long been simple: a tiny, instantly available plain-text editor bundled with Windows. Over the past year Microsoft has steadily expanded that role, adding features such as tabs, spell-check, autocorrect, and...

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Nvidia’s announcement this week — backed by major partnerships with CoreWeave, Microsoft, OpenAI and UK-based Nscale — marks a decisive escalation in the battle to build sovereign AI compute in Britain: the plan promises up to 120,000 Blackwell-class GPUs and as much as £11 billion of investment in UK data centres by the end of 2026, alongside a global Nscale expansion of 300,000 Grace‑Blackwell GPUs. Background The UK’s AI ambitions have shifted from strategy documents and pilot projects to...

Windows 10 reaches a hard stop on October 14, 2025 — after that date Microsoft will no longer deliver routine security updates, feature patches, or technical support for the mainstream editions — and every Windows 10 PC owner needs a realistic plan now to avoid rapid security and compatibility deterioration. Background Microsoft launched Windows 10 in 2015 with an unusually long lifecycle promise, but the clock has run out: October 14, 2025 is the official end‑of‑support date for standard...

The contours of the modern Executive MBA are shifting faster than most curricula can keep up: AI is no longer a future elective tucked into an optional module, it’s becoming an operational competency that executive programs are expected to deliver as a core outcome. Recent industry and academic moves — from business schools embedding personalized AI agents into coursework to enterprise platforms offering low‑code Copilot authoring studios — show that the next generation of MBAs will be...

Inforcer’s elevation into Microsoft’s MSP-focused Intune initiative marks an important inflection point for managed service providers seeking to productize Microsoft 365, scale multi-tenant operations, and prepare customers for AI-driven services such as Microsoft Copilot. Background / Overview Microsoft 365 has become the default productivity and collaboration layer for millions of small and medium businesses, but the platform’s native consoles were not built with high-volume, multi-tenant...

Microsoft has set a hard deadline: on October 14, 2025, routine security updates and mainstream support end for Windows 10 (version 22H2) and for perpetual releases Office 2016 and Office 2019 — a coordinated sunset that forces consumers and organizations to choose between upgrading, buying limited extended protection, or running unsupported software that will steadily accumulate risk. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle program establishes firm end‑of‑servicing dates so engineering...

Oracle's blockbuster first-quarter numbers and multibillion-dollar AI deals have rewritten the narrative: a company long pigeonholed as a database vendor is now positioning Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as the cloud purpose-built for large-scale AI training and inference — with management forecasting OCI can grow from roughly $10 billion in fiscal 2025 to $144 billion by fiscal 2030. Background Oracle’s September earnings disclosed a dramatic shift in the company’s forward revenue...

As an experiment that sounds more like a retrofuturist stunt than practical advice, a 2005 Sun workstation powered by an early AMD Opteron has been shown booting and running Windows 11—thanks not to official support but to a pared-down, community-built Windows image known as Tiny11 and an archived build that sidesteps recent CPU checks. This one-off proves two things at once: with enough tinkering, you can make modern Windows run on surprisingly old iron, and the underlying compatibility...

Microsoft's latest in‑app prompt inside Microsoft Paint has quietly pulled back the curtain on a new experiment: selected Windows 11 users are being invited to opt into what the UI calls Microsoft AI Labs, a dedicated testbed for pre‑release AI features that — for now — mostly amounts to a sign‑up form and a promise to “stay tuned.” The notification appears inside Paint’s Settings panel and asks users to join an opt‑in program to try experimental AI features, but signing up does not...

Microsoft has begun testing a coordinated set of feature updates to three of Windows 11’s oldest inbox apps — Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad — rolling them out to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels. These updates add a native project save for Paint, an in‑capture “Quick Markup” workflow for Snipping Tool, and on‑device generative AI tools inside Notepad that can run locally on Copilot+ PCs. The changes are staged and pragmatic: small but meaningful UX wins for creators and...