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Windows 11 can feel like it was designed to slow you down — extra clicks, hidden options, and UI nudges that favour click-throughs over productivity — but a carefully chosen set of Registry edits will let power users roll back many of the annoyances without installing third‑party shell replacements. The following is a hands‑on, step‑by‑step guide to the 11 most useful Registry tweaks (and safe alternatives) that restore familiar behaviors, cut wasted clicks, and speed up startup — plus a...

Syncro’s new cloud backup for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra ID lands squarely at the intersection of two growing realities: MSPs need simple, billable services that reduce client risk, and identity-related outages are now among the fastest routes to catastrophic downtime. Announced on September 16, 2025, Syncro Cloud Backup is an integrated, multi-tenant backup and restore capability built directly into the Syncro XMM platform; it promises unified management for Exchange, SharePoint...

A newly disclosed flaw in Microsoft Entra ID — tracked as CVE-2025-55241 — exposed a fragile seam in cloud identity where undocumented internal tokens and a legacy API’s weak validation combined to create a near‑universal tenant takeover vector; Microsoft has patched the defect, but the incident is a wake‑up call for every organization that still relies on legacy identity flows or hybrid Exchange configurations. Background Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) is the...

Microsoft will stop issuing security patches for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a hard deadline that forces a decision for every PC still running the decade-old OS: upgrade to Windows 11, buy new hardware, enroll in Microsoft’s limited Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge, or move to an alternative OS. This guide lays out pragmatic paths to delay, avoid, or survive the switch to Windows 11, with step‑by‑step actions, risk assessment, and recovery plans to keep your data and devices safe...

HP still tops the installed base of Windows 10 PCs even as Lenovo remains the world’s largest PC shipper — but those two facts describe different markets and tell very different stories about where buyers, OEMs and enterprises are actually spending their money. Background: two measurements, two stories There are two common ways to talk about who “leads” the PC market: shipments (units sold into channels over a period) and installed base / active device telemetry (which vendors’ machines are...

Microsoft appears to be quietly reintroducing native video wallpaper support in Windows 11 — a modern, DreamScene‑style capability that lets you set common video files (MP4, MOV, MKV and more) as your desktop background directly from the OS — but the feature is still experimental in Insider builds and its final behavior, rollout timing, and power policies remain provisional. Background Windows has flirted with animated desktop backgrounds before. In 2007 Microsoft shipped DreamScene for...

Security researcher Dirk‑jan Mollema’s discovery of two linked vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Entra ID architecture exposed a failure mode that, by design, could have allowed an attacker with limited on‑premises access to gain near‑complete control over hybrid Microsoft environments — a chain that Microsoft, national CERTs, and U.S. federal cyber authorities treated with exceptional urgency once it was disclosed. Background In mid‑2025 Microsoft publicly documented a security problem...

Microsoft pinned much of its comeback strategy on Windows 10 — a single, unified operating system that promised to be familiar, secure, and everywhere: on desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, and Xbox consoles. The company offered it as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and 8.1 users, launched aggressive device and platform integration efforts, and positioned Windows 10 as the linchpin of a cloud- and services-driven future. That gamble succeeded in restoring stability and mass adoption for...

Microsoft's move to create a dedicated "5G Foresight Team" in Taiwan marks a deliberate push to stitch together cloud, private wireless and hardware partners into a single industrial play — one that combines Azure cloud services, Azure Private Multi‑Access Edge Compute (MEC) tooling and local 5G expertise to accelerate AIoT and private‑network use cases across manufacturing, logistics and public safety. Background Microsoft announced the formation of the 5G Foresight Team in Taipei on May 8...

The Capital Area Tech Hub’s upcoming seminar “Unlock Productivity with AI Agents” will bring Microsoft 365 Copilot and the new generation of agentic AI into a Mid-Michigan meeting room on September 24, 2025 — a practical, lunch-hour briefing led by Microsoft Copilot solution engineer Joe Palarchio that promises to show how prebuilt agents and low-code tools like Copilot Studio can automate workflows, reduce repetitive work, and seed pilot projects for organizations of all sizes. Background...

Windows 11 has quietly gained yet another Copilot entry point in Insider Preview builds: a “Share with Copilot” button that appears in the taskbar window preview when you hover over an open app. The button is designed to push content from the active window directly into Copilot Vision so the AI can analyze screen contents, answer questions, and offer contextual guidance — but it also highlights a growing problem in Windows 11’s user experience: Microsoft continues to add multiple, sometimes...

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The manufacturing sector — long defined by assembly lines, shift rosters, and physical labor — is now at the intersection of a new debate: do AI tools truly deliver sustainable productivity gains for the modern workforce, or do they create a creeping dependency that erodes core skills and raises operational risk? The recent Manufacturing Today India piece on "AI tools for the modern workforce: Productivity vs. Dependency" lays out this tension by summarizing industry findings and real‑world...

Microsoft says it has completed — or is days away from bringing online — what it calls the world’s most powerful artificial‑intelligence datacenter: a 315‑acre, three‑building campus in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, branded Fairwater and built to operate as a single, tightly coupled AI supercomputer populated with hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GB200 (Blackwell) accelerators. The company’s public materials and executive posts frame Fairwater as a purpose‑built AI factory: rack‑scale GB200...

Microsoft has opened a new door for enterprise automation by putting Azure Logic Apps (Standard) into the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem: Standard logic apps can now be configured to act as remote MCP servers in public preview, enabling LLMs, Copilot agents, and MCP clients to discover and call Logic Apps workflows as first-class tools. Background / Overview The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol designed to make external services and tools discoverable, describable...

ZainTECH and Microsoft’s recent “AI‑Ready Kuwait” summit marks a decisive pivot from aspiration to execution in Kuwait’s digital transformation story, framing local cloud infrastructure, government Copilot rollouts, and an AI‑enabled Microsoft Azure Region as concrete building blocks for Kuwait Vision 2035. The summit — held September 17 at the Waldorf Astoria in Kuwait City — gathered senior public‑sector decision makers to examine real‑world AI use cases, connectivity and resiliency...

Windows 10 will stop receiving security updates and support on October 14, 2025 — but you don’t have to lose your data or your PC’s usefulness the day the calendar turns: there are three practical, low‑risk paths to keep using the same hardware and preserve your files while you migrate, buy time, or move onto a new platform. Background Microsoft’s official lifecycle timeline sets Windows 10 end of support as October 14, 2025, which means monthly security patches, fixes, and official support...

When Varonis field CTO Brian Vecci quipped that “every copilot pilot gets stuck in pilot” at a Fortune Brainstorm Tech panel, the laughter in the room masked a sharper truth: organizations desperate to extract business value from generative AI are repeatedly hitting the same barrier — data security and governance. That one-liner captured why so many promising trials stall: without a rigorous, practical approach to data protection and operational controls, pilots never graduate to sustained...

Far EasTone Telecommunications and Microsoft Taiwan have formally deepened a strategic alliance that will push joint development across three concrete pillars — co-building teams, co-building platforms, and co-building services — with a specific push to accelerate 5G, AIoT, cloud-native development and enterprise-grade data services in Taiwan’s commercial ecosystem. Background Far EasTone’s move builds on a multi-year relationship with Microsoft that began with earlier cloud and enterprise...

ZainTECH and Microsoft’s joint “AI‑Ready Kuwait” summit marks a decisive step toward turning Kuwait Vision 2035’s digital ambitions into concrete public‑sector programs — a forum that showcased practical AI use cases, local cloud infrastructure plans and the prospect of an AI‑powered Microsoft Azure Region to strengthen data sovereignty and resilience. Background Kuwait’s drive to modernize public services and diversify its economy under Kuwait Vision 2035 has put cloud, AI and cybersecurity...