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Microsoft’s latest push turns Teams into a hybrid workspace where AI is not just an assistant but a teammate — a suite of specialized, context-aware agents is being rolled into Microsoft 365 Copilot to run meetings, summarize channels, and act as an on-call community expert across Viva Engage. The company is positioning these agents as productivity multipliers — Facilitator for meetings (now generally available), Channel and Community agents (in public preview) — while tying the capabilities...

Valve will stop supporting 32‑bit editions of Windows for the Steam desktop client on January 1, 2026, a decision that effectively ends a long era of 32‑bit platform compatibility while imposing a clear migration deadline for the tiny fraction of users still running Windows 10 (32‑bit). Background For more than two decades the Steam client has served players on a broad range of Windows editions, from legacy 32‑bit installs to modern 64‑bit builds. Over the last several years, however, both...

Microsoft’s new Xbox “Full Screen Experience” for handheld Windows PCs is no longer just marketing copy on a press release — enthusiasts are already running it on older hardware, and early tests show real, measurable gains and equally real caveats that matter for anyone who owns a handheld Windows device. Background Microsoft and ASUS positioned the ROG Xbox Ally family as the first mainstream devices to ship with a controller‑first, full‑screen Xbox shell layered on top of Windows 11. The...

Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has publicly framed the company’s sprawling new Wisconsin AI campus — branded Fairwater — as a leap in raw frontier compute, saying the site “will deliver 10x the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputer today” and positioning the build as a cornerstone for Azure AI and the company’s work with OpenAI. The announcement accompanies a multibillion‑dollar expansion in Racine County that converts a long‑vacant Foxconn parcel into a purpose‑built “AI factory,”...

Inforcer’s recent elevation into Microsoft’s MSP-focused Intune initiative marks a tangible step toward making Microsoft 365 more manageable, secure, and AI-ready for Managed Service Providers — and it comes at a moment when MSPs desperately need standardized, scale-ready tooling to extract value from Microsoft’s sprawling cloud stack. Background / Overview Microsoft 365 is now the operational backbone for millions of small and medium businesses, but the platform’s native consoles and...

Bonfy.AI’s latest update to its Adaptive Content Security platform lands squarely in the intersection of AI adoption and enterprise security, expanding native integrations across Microsoft 365 and positioning an AI-first approach to Data Loss Prevention that specifically targets risks introduced by Microsoft Copilot and other generative AI tools. Background Enterprises accelerated their adoption of generative AI inside everyday productivity tools over the last 18 months, and Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s new Fairwater campus in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, promises to reframe how hyperscalers build and sell AI compute — a 315‑acre, purpose‑built AI “factory” that stitches hundreds of thousands of the latest NVIDIA chips into a single, tightly coupled supercomputing fabric Microsoft says is capable of 10× the AI throughput of today’s fastest supercomputer. Background Microsoft’s Fairwater announcement is the clearest expression yet of a broader industry shift: cloud providers are...

Valve has put a firm date on the end of an era: beginning January 1, 2026, Steam will stop supporting 32‑bit editions of Windows — a move that is technically predictable, low‑impact for the vast majority of users, but urgent and potentially disruptive for the small cohort still running Windows 10 in 32‑bit mode. Background The PC ecosystem has been migrating from 32‑bit to 64‑bit for nearly two decades. Hardware, drivers, anti‑cheat modules, and browser engines have progressively...

Valve will stop supporting 32‑bit versions of Windows for the Steam client on January 1, 2026, effectively ending official updates, security patches, and technical support for the tiny slice of users still running Windows 10 32‑bit; existing Steam installations may continue to launch for a time, but they will age without maintenance and Valve will prioritize 64‑bit platforms going forward. Background / Overview Steam’s announcement closes a long arc: modern PC software and drivers have...

As South Africa’s Class of 2025 moves into the final stretch of its National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams, educators and students are reaching for a new set of study tools: generative artificial intelligence. Local reporting from The Citizen quotes Centennial Schools’ director of academics, Amoré Pretorius, describing AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Poe, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot as “personalised, interactive learning pathways” that can reshape revision, practice and digital literacy...

Microsoft's announcement that Fairwater — a sprawling AI datacenter complex built on the shelved Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin — will become the “world’s most powerful AI datacenter” is a watershed moment for U.S. hyperscale infrastructure, but it also raises immediate technical, economic, and environmental questions that deserve sober scrutiny. Background / Overview Microsoft first revealed a major investment in Wisconsin in May 2024, committing $3.3 billion to construct a...

Omnissa’s product roadmap announced at Omnissa One in Las Vegas signals a concerted push to turn the company’s Workspace ONE and Horizon portfolios into a single, open digital-workspace platform — one that blends expanded device and server management, partner-driven infrastructure choice, and the next wave of AI-driven operations and agentic workflows to simplify how IT teams manage endpoints and secure workspaces. Background / Overview Omnissa, the independent spin‑out from the former...

Microsoft’s announcement that it is building what it calls the world’s most powerful AI datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin — a megasite branded Fairwater — marks a decisive escalation in the physical infrastructure race underpinning the generative AI era. The facility, part of a newly described global network of purpose-built AI datacenters, is slated to house hundreds of thousands of the latest NVIDIA GPUs, use closed-loop liquid cooling, be connected by state-of-the-art fiber and...

Microsoft should seriously consider a wearable Copilot device — but only if it designs one that solves the hard problems other entrants keep ignoring: privacy, battery and thermal constraints, compelling on‑device AI, and clear user value beyond what a smartphone already provides. Background Microsoft’s AI strategy is increasingly hardware‑aware. The company has pushed Copilot into Windows, created the Copilot+ PC tier, and integrated AI into core inbox apps like Paint and Notepad, signaling...

Microsoft’s May 13, 2025 hotpatch for Windows PowerShell, released as KB5061096, is a narrowly scoped security update aimed at reducing immediate exposure for hotpatch‑eligible systems while preserving uptime for high‑availability deployments; it applies only to devices enrolled in Microsoft’s Hotpatch program and targets specific PowerShell components in the 26100 build family, but its public notes are intentionally concise and do not enumerate CVE identifiers or deep technical exploit...

Microsoft released KB5064010 on August 12, 2025 — a hotpatch that updates eligible Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024 and certain Windows Server Azure Edition builds to OS Build 26100.4851, delivering narrowly scoped security hardening without the usual restart required by cumulative updates. Background Hotpatching is Microsoft’s servicing innovation to reduce operational disruption while maintaining a rapid security posture for enterprise endpoints. Instead of a full Latest Cumulative Update...

Microsoft released a targeted hotpatch—KB5065474—on September 9, 2025, for Windows 11 Enterprise (24H2 / LTSC 2024) that advances eligible devices to OS Build 26100.6508, delivers a focused app-compatibility / UAC repair, and includes two operational advisories administrators must treat as high priority: a documented PowerShell Direct (PSDirect) interoperability edge case and a reminder about an impending Secure Boot certificate expiry window. Background / Overview Hotpatching is Microsoft’s...

Microsoft has begun rolling Gaming Copilot into the Windows 11 Game Bar, turning the overlay that millions of PC players already use into a live, context-aware AI assistant for in-game help, coaching, and account-aware recommendations. Background Microsoft first introduced Copilot-branded assistants across its products over the past two years, and Gaming Copilot moves that ambition squarely into the core of the Xbox + Windows ecosystem. The official rollout to Windows 11 Game Bar began on...

Caylent’s new Accelerate for Cloud Migration offering promises to turn a moment of VMware market disruption into a fast, AI‑driven migration path to AWS — coupling Amazon Bedrock for discovery, AWS Application Migration Service for automated lift‑and‑shift, and Terraform for repeatable Infrastructure‑as‑Code delivery — while pitching an outcome‑based commercial model that only charges for workloads “successfully migrated and validated.” Background The enterprise virtualization market has...

Nscale’s plan to build what partners are billing as the UK’s largest AI supercomputer — in collaboration with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI — represents a major acceleration of on‑shore AI compute capacity, promising tens of thousands of next‑generation GPUs, multi‑megawatt power envelopes and a new “sovereign” platform called Stargate UK intended to host OpenAI models inside the United Kingdom. Background / Overview The announcement combines three interlocking strands: a new Nscale AI Campus...