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The latest publicly available AMD Radeon Graphics Drivers package continues to push the company’s Adrenalin software suite forward, packaging performance optimizations, new upscaling and frame‑generation technologies, and per‑game latency improvements into a single installer while maintaining support across multiple RDNA generations; at the same time, the rapid release cadence and introduction of advanced AI‑assisted features raise important compatibility and stability considerations for...

Microsoft has set a firm deadline: Windows 10 mainstream support ends on October 14, 2025, and that cutover changes the security posture for millions of PCs worldwide. After that date, most Windows 10 machines will no longer receive monthly security patches, feature updates, or standard technical support — unless they’re enrolled in a limited Extended Security Updates (ESU) pathway or otherwise covered by a paid support arrangement. Background / Overview Microsoft announced that Windows 10...

Windows 11 ships with a lot of useful functionality — and a lot of defaults that many users find noisy, intrusive, or simply unnecessary. A recent community write-up that recommends three Group Policy tweaks — turning off Microsoft Defender, disabling toast notifications, and preventing OneDrive from auto‑backing up or syncing — is a succinct starter checklist for anyone building a quieter, more predictable Windows install. The original piece lays out the user experience case: Defender can...

Work is changing shape: Microsoft is shifting Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal assistant into a set of collaboration-first agents that live inside Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage — effectively giving every team, meeting, project, and community an AI teammate that acts on shared context and organizational knowledge. The rollout announced on September 18, 2025 expands Copilot’s role from helping individuals draft and summarize to actively coordinating work, taking meeting notes...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Gaming Copilot (Beta) to Windows PCs via the Xbox Game Bar, an in‑overlay AI assistant that promises real‑time, voice‑first help, screenshot‑aware guidance, achievement tracking, and personalized game recommendations — with mobile Xbox app support scheduled for October and availability restricted to adult users in most regions (mainland China excluded). Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot brand has expanded aggressively across productivity and...

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...