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The workplace is being rewritten around a new vocabulary: AI fluency — the practical ability to think with, prompt, and supervise artificial intelligence — and a major new industry report shows that organizations which treat learning as continuous, work‑integrated practice are the ones gaining the earliest advantage. Udemy’s 2026 Global Learning & Skills Trends Report finds explosive demand for AI training across functions, dramatic spikes in consumption of Copilot-style content, and...

AI upskilling has moved from an HR talking point to a workplace imperative as employees across industries race to learn generative AI tools, enterprise copilots, and the human skills needed to use them responsibly. Background The latest industry data shows a striking surge in demand for AI-related learning on major platforms, with Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot among the most accelerated topics and generative AI courses seeing millions of enrollments. This shift is driven by two...

Ottawa’s recent disclosure that the federal government has spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. providers since 2021 — with more than a billion of that directed to Microsoft and portions of that budget underpinning what the Department of National Defence calls “mission‑critical” applications — lays bare a strategic tension at the intersection of national security, procurement economics, and digital sovereignty. Background Canada’s federal departments were asked to disclose...

Nvidia’s repositioning of DGX Cloud has reshuffled the AI infrastructure chessboard: what looked like a direct cloud play has been quietly repurposed into a strategic mix of internal R&D capacity and an external orchestration layer (DGX Cloud Lepton) that routes developer demand through partners and hyperscalers—an approach that preserves Nvidia’s influence while reducing channel conflict with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Background When Nvidia launched DGX Cloud in...

Valve has set a firm deadline: beginning January 1, 2026, the Steam desktop client will stop receiving official support on 32‑bit editions of Windows, effectively freezing the client on any Windows 32‑bit machines and forcing the small remaining user base to migrate or accept an unsupported configuration. Background The announcement closes a predictable chapter in the long migration from 32‑bit to 64‑bit desktop computing. Microsoft’s lifecycle timeline for Windows 10 — which reaches end of...

Microsoft’s claim that Arm-based Windows PCs now see most user minutes spent inside natively compiled apps marks a pivotal moment for the platform — a transition from compatibility-first survival to native-first performance and efficiency. Microsoft executives point to a figure that will shape buyer confidence and ISV strategy: roughly 90% of time on Arm PCs is now spent in native Arm binaries, a dramatic improvement in a matter of years and an outcome of coordinated work across Microsoft...

The clock is already ticking: Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, and for small- and mid-sized businesses the decision to upgrade is rapidly shifting from optional maintenance to strategic opportunity. Upgrading isn’t just about avoiding security gaps; it’s about harnessing a new class of AI-ready devices — Windows 11 Pro machines with Intel vPro® for broad business needs and Copilot+ PCs with Intel® Core™ Ultra (and equivalent platforms) for power users — that promise...

PrintVis’ new Capacity Optimization feature, announced as an AI-powered planning add‑on that uses Microsoft Copilot, promises to reshape how print operations balance machine workloads and respond to changing production priorities — delivering the potential for higher utilization, fewer bottlenecks, and faster turnaround when implemented correctly. Overview PrintVis has expanded its planning and scheduling toolbox with Capacity Optimization, an AI-assisted module that leverages Microsoft...

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...