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Satya Nadella’s blunt admission that Microsoft must “rebuild trust” with its workforce landed at the center of a turbulent week for the company, as months of large-scale workforce reductions and a newly tightened return-to-office policy collided with employee activism and questions about corporate values and oversight. The exchange — captured in internal audio and reported widely — was both an acknowledgement of internal frustration and a promissory note from the CEO: leadership can and must...

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OpenAI’s long-running infrastructure romance with Microsoft has quietly shifted from exclusivity to pragmatic flexibility, and the implications reach far beyond two corporate balance sheets — they reshape how cloud capacity, regulatory risk, and enterprise resilience will play out as AI scales to unprecedented computational heights. Background The partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft began as a deep, asymmetric alliance: Microsoft invested heavily in OpenAI and supplied Azure as the...

WinBoat arrives as one of the clearest attempts yet to bridge the Windows-on-Linux gap by running a full Windows environment inside a lightweight Docker container and exposing apps to the Linux desktop as (nearly) native windows. Background WinBoat is an open‑source project from TibixDev that packages a Windows guest inside a Docker container, automates the build and orchestration steps, and presents an Electron-based UI to manage Windows instances and launch Windows applications from a...

Pennsylvania is moving from pilot to purchase order: Governor Josh Shapiro told more than 900 technology, academic and business leaders at the AI Horizons Summit in Pittsburgh that the commonwealth will expand access to advanced generative AI tools for qualified state employees — adding Microsoft Copilot to an existing ChatGPT Enterprise rollout and wrapping the expansion with training, oversight and economic development commitments. Background The Shapiro administration’s effort builds on a...

OpenAI’s decision to add parental controls to ChatGPT this fall marks a consequential shift in how families, schools, and regulators will manage students’ interactions with generative AI—an acknowledgement that technical safeguards alone have not prevented harm and that human-centered interventions are now expected to be part of the product roadmap. Background Since ChatGPT became a household name, educators and parents have wrestled with two related problems: students using chatbots to...

Microsoft’s latest Release Preview update for Windows 11 brings a concentrated set of AI-driven features to Insiders — and one of the most eye-catching is the expansion of Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR) to more titles, but with a strict hardware caveat: Auto SR remains gated to Copilot+ PCs for now. This update (delivered as KB5065789 in the Release Preview channel) also bundles enterprise-facing controls such as Administrator Protection Preview, better passkey integration via a plugin...

Microsoft has begun seeding KB5065789 to the Release Preview Channel, delivering targeted accessibility and productivity upgrades to Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 — notably an improved Narrator with a new Braille Viewer and more natural table/list reading, and an expanded Click to Do that can detect simple on‑screen tables and export them to Excel. These changes arrive as preview builds 26100.6713 (24H2) and 26200.6713 (25H2), and Microsoft is rolling many features gradually with...

Accordance’s public launch this week signals a new phase in AI for tax and accounting: the startup bills itself as an “AI brain” that bundles specialized regulatory knowledge, a multi‑agent reasoning system, and integrations designed for professional workflows — all backed by a recent $13 million funding round. At the same time, spreadsheet-first companies such as Sourcetable are pushing the same “agentic” envelope in the data layer, advertising Superagents that can reach any database, API...

Microsoft’s latest Release Preview update for Windows 11 arrives with built-in AI actions for File Explorer, bringing image edits and Copilot-powered document summarization to the right‑click menu while also polishing Advanced Settings, sharing, emoji support, and several developer- and gamer-focused tweaks in build updates 26200.6713 (25H2) and 26100.5061 (24H2) delivered as KB5065789. Background Windows 11’s cadence over the past year has mixed platform enablement with AI-first feature...

Microsoft’s latest Microsoft Store update for Windows Insiders quietly widens the gateway between the Store, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and publishers’ app ecosystems—adding Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents to the Store’s AI Hub and making it easier to launch and manage apps that are “provided and updated by” publishers directly from Store pages and the Downloads view. This is a small-but-significant product shift: it pushes agent-driven automation into discovery flows inside the Store, reduces...

Microsoft is quietly reshaping how Windows users discover, launch, and update applications by rolling out a Microsoft Store redesign that surfaces downloads and makes it easier to launch apps you already have on your PC—whether they were installed from the Store or from a developer’s site. Early rollouts in Insider channels expose a dedicated Downloads pane, clearer Library organization, improved progress indicators, and a mechanism to surface updates for apps that weren’t originally...

Microsoft’s latest Release Preview channel updates make a small but meaningful usability change: you can now choose where on-screen hardware indicators — the volume, brightness, airplane mode and virtual desktop flyouts — appear on your display, and that’s just the tip of what landed in the September Release Preview flight; the update also brings File Explorer AI actions, a taskbar pinning policy improvement for IT admins, and a bundle of bug fixes and polish that move Windows 11 closer to a...

Microsoft pushed a new Windows 11 preview update (KB5065782) into Insider rings on September 12, 2025, delivering a focused set of Copilot-era UX refinements—most notably a redesigned Click to Do prompt box with on‑device suggestion support, updated gesture animations, Emoji 16.0, and several accessibility and stability fixes for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 24H2. Background / Overview Microsoft’s KB5065782 preview package was released as parallel preview builds across Insider channels...

Microsoft has pushed a focused Insider Preview to the Dev Channel that quietly bundles three small-but-important shifts: Emoji 16.0 support in the Windows emoji panel, targeted accessibility upgrades to Narrator, and Copilot-related refinements to Click to Do — all delivered with the compact enablement-package model for Windows 11 25H2 in build 26220.6682 (KB5065782) on September 12, 2025. Background / Overview Windows 11’s development cadence now relies heavily on incremental enablement...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview (Build 26220.6682, KB5065782) sharpens Narrator’s reading and navigation behavior, brings a small curated set of Emoji 16.0 glyphs to the emoji picker, and rolls out incremental Click to Do (Copilot) refinements — changes that are small in headline but potentially large in day‑to‑day impact for people who rely on assistive technology and for administrators planning the 25H2/24H2 enablement wave. Background / Overview Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel...

A joint Aston University–University of Leeds partnership has secured a £3.4 million Research England Development Fund award to build the Artificial Intelligence Researcher Development Network Plus (AI.RDN+), a four‑year programme that will map how publicly available AI tools (from ChatGPT to Microsoft Copilot and other consumer-facing agents) are being used across doctoral research, consult PhD researchers and research staff, and produce a shared portal of guidance, case studies, training...

Microsoft’s latest Insider flights deliver a compact but meaningful set of refinements — from a new Copilot prompt box inside Click to Do to a curated Emoji 16 rollout and deep accessibility fixes for Narrator — packaged in Dev build 26220.6682 (and matching Beta build 26120.6682), signaling another step in the company’s incremental 25H2 enablement strategy. Background / Overview Windows 11, version 25H2 continues to be delivered as an enablement package layered on the existing servicing...

Microsoft has pushed a coordinated set of Windows 11 Insider Preview builds into the Dev, Beta, and Release Preview channels, bringing the near‑final 25H2 activation and a raft of AI, accessibility, and usability tweaks that IT teams and power users should validate now. Background / Overview Windows 11’s 25H2 update is being delivered primarily as an enablement package (eKB) layered on top of the 24H2 servicing branch, meaning most of the binaries were already staged in regular cumulative...

Microsoft’s quiet pivot to make artificial intelligence a native, operational layer inside Dynamics 365 marks a decisive shift: AI is no longer an optional add-on but a set of embedded capabilities designed to activate business outcomes, and the success of that activation now hinges as much on governance, partner selection, and human oversight as on the technology itself. Background Microsoft has been steadily folding generative AI and agentic automation into its enterprise stack for several...