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Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds quietly add a one‑click internet speed‑test shortcut to the taskbar network flyout — but the shortcut simply opens Bing’s web‑based speed test rather than running a native, offline measurement — and the same builds also include a subtle but meaningful refresh of several Settings pages and a new, still‑unfinished “Background AI tasks” area that signals Microsoft’s next phase of AI system controls. Background: what Microsoft shipped to...

Microsoft has given the clearest possible countdown: Windows 10 will stop receiving routine security updates, feature fixes, and general technical support after October 14, 2025, forcing every remaining Windows 10 PC into one of three paths — upgrade, pay for a temporary safety net, or accept rising risk on an unsupported platform. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in 2015 and dominated the PC era for a decade. Microsoft built long, publicly documented lifecycle schedules for...

AMD’s freshly posted support guidance for the vexing Error 1603 is a welcome — if overdue — dose of clarity for users who hit a brick wall while installing Radeon or chipset packages on Windows 10 and 11. The company’s knowledge base article walks through the usual suspects (software conflicts, antivirus interference, missing Windows updates and corrupted Visual C++ redistributables), lays out concrete remediation steps (run Windows Update, use the full Radeon package, run DISM and SFC...

New Era Technology’s pitch — that the gulf between opportunity and capability in the Middle East’s digital economy is closing — is no longer just marketing copy; it’s a blueprint for how regional enterprises can modernize ERP, accelerate user adoption, and begin to harness generative AI across business functions. Over the last 18 months the company has doubled down on two converging trends: enterprise ERP modernization (largely centered on SAP S/4HANA and RISE with SAP) and the human side of...

In a deliberately fictional exercise staged by IPAA ACT, a cabinet decision to replace frontline public servants with AI agents culminates in spectacle and sharp lessons: procurement defaults to a dominant vendor, automated casework produces unexpected harms for vulnerable communities, and an overconfident push to “move fast and break things” forces a partial human rehire when a rogue agent deletes critical functions. The made‑up story functions as a stress test for the intersection of...

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Microsoft pushed a busy week of changes across Windows 11 and the broader Windows ecosystem: September’s Patch Tuesday landed with a handful of quality fixes and a long-requested calendar clock return, Microsoft released ISOs for Windows 11 version 25H2 to Insiders, the SSD “bricking” saga continued with Phison blaming preview firmware, and a wave of community tooling — from Flyoobe’s hardware-bypass updates to the extreme nano11 debloat script — is reshaping how power users install and pare...

The countdown is real: on October 14, 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10, and for many users the central question is practical and immediate — will upgrading to Windows 11 cost you money, or can you keep using the license you already own? The short answer for most home and small-business users is that upgrading from an activated Windows 10 installation to Windows 11 is free when the PC meets Microsoft’s hardware requirements; for devices that don’t meet those requirements there...

Windows 10’s official support clock is now counting down—and for millions of users the practical question is simple: upgrade to Windows 11 while your machine is still supported, buy new hardware, or pay for temporary coverage. Microsoft will stop providing regular security updates and technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and the company is explicitly steering users toward Windows 11 with a free upgrade pathway for eligible devices. Background: what “end of support” actually...

Source code management is no longer a niche developer convenience — it is the central nervous system of modern software delivery, and choosing the right system in 2025 determines how fast teams ship, how well they secure supply chains, and how easily they scale across distributed workforces and massive asset sets. Background / Overview Source Code Management (SCM) tools track changes, coordinate collaboration, and provide the audit trail teams need to move quickly without breaking things. At...

The Automatic Repair screen that reads “Your PC did not start correctly” is not a dramatic flourish — it’s Windows telling you that the boot process failed one of its early checks and the system has moved you into the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) so you can try to fix it. The advice from the community guide you uploaded — which recommends a measured, step‑by‑step approach (restart, Startup Repair, System Restore, Safe Mode, command‑line BCD repairs, then Reset or pro help if needed)...

Microsoft’s next major Windows refresh was no surprise by the time of its official unveiling: after weeks of leaks and rumor traffic, the company revealed a redesigned operating system on June 24 that would become Windows 11 — a visual and strategic reset of Windows intended to modernize the interface, tighten security, and reposition the platform for hybrid work, gaming, and app distribution. The announcement promised a new Start experience, a centered taskbar, Snap layouts for...

Ukraine’s finance teams are now facing a hard truth: the next leap in working‑capital effectiveness and month‑end certainty will come from properly chosen, securely deployed AI — not from another spreadsheet macro or longer close calendar. Background: why this shortlist matters now Nucamp’s 2025 roundup of practical AI tools for finance is not a vendor wishlist; it’s a practitioner’s shortlist built around four operational criteria: clear pilot ROI, integration with legacy ERPs and data...

Windows 11 ships with a focused toolkit for PC gaming — from Game Mode and Auto HDR to DirectStorage and per‑app GPU control — and when you combine those features with up‑to‑date drivers, the right power profile, and thoughtful storage management you can measurably boost FPS, reduce stutters, and cut load times. Enabling the right settings, matching each game to the correct GPU, keeping game files on an NVMe drive that supports DirectStorage, and avoiding unnecessary background work are the...

West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service (WYFRS) has quietly pushed one of the clearest practical tests of enterprise AI into the public sector: by embedding Microsoft Copilot across day‑to‑day workflows the service says it has accelerated routine admin, improved accessibility for neurodiverse staff, and freed frontline teams to focus on operational tasks. Early adopter rollouts such as WYFRS offer a valuable, real‑world case study for IT teams evaluating Copilot and the Power Platform in...

Microsoft has opened the Live Interpreter API in public preview, a new Azure Speech Translation capability that promises continuous, real‑time speech‑to‑speech translation without requiring developers or users to preselect an input language. Background Microsoft’s Azure Speech Translation has delivered incremental advances—speech‑to‑text, text translation and neural text‑to‑speech—for several years. The Live Interpreter API is positioned as the next step: a single, low‑latency pipeline that...

Microsoft’s continued migration of legacy Control Panel features into the modern Settings app has taken another step forward: recent Windows 11 Insider preview builds contain hidden, in-progress pages that surface longstanding keyboard controls and a redesigned haptic touchpad panel inside Settings, signaling Microsoft’s steady push to consolidate device input controls into a single, discoverable interface across Windows 11’s Dev and Beta channels. Background Microsoft began moving legacy...

Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025 — exactly 30 days from today — and Microsoft has laid out a narrow, pragmatic exit path that mixes a one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) option, continued app/browser servicing, and a blunt message: upgrade, buy new hardware, move workloads to the cloud, or accept growing risk. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar now pins Windows 10 end of support to a hard date: October 14, 2025. On that day...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider Preview update, rolled out as KB5065782 to Dev and Beta channel testers on September 12, 2025, repurposes the SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) flow to display a full‑screen Microsoft 365 “needs attention” renewal prompt that occupies the display and requires an explicit action to dismiss or accept the reminder. Background: SCOOBE, Insider channels, and KB5065782 SCOOBE — short for Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience — was designed as a...

Microsoft has lifted a months‑long compatibility hold that prevented a subset of PCs from receiving the Windows 11, version 24H2 feature update after an audio-processing component from Dirac caused devices to lose all sound; the problem was corrected with a vendor-supplied driver distributed through Windows Update, and Microsoft removed the safeguard (ID 54283088) after telemetry validated the fix. Background: what happened and why it mattered The incident traces to a single third‑party...