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Mashable’s recent roundup of the best Windows laptops for 2025 puts a stake in the ground: Windows machines are no longer playing catch‑up with Apple — in several key areas they’re leading the conversation on battery life, repairability, and flexible performance. The piece highlights seven machines that stand out this year, from the battery-marathon Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 to the endlessly modifiable Framework Laptop 13 — a device that’s pitched not as the cheapest spec sheet on the block...

Microsoft’s formal cutoff for Windows 10 support is now a fixed business event: after October 14, 2025, Microsoft will stop issuing feature updates, quality fixes and—critically—security patches for the mainstream Windows 10 editions unless a device is enrolled in an Extended Security Updates (ESU) program or covered by specific cloud activation pathways. Background Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar is unambiguous: Windows 10 Home, Pro, Enterprise, Education and IoT Enterprise reach end of...

Renaming a Windows 11 PC is one of those tiny housekeeping tasks that pays outsized dividends: it makes devices easier to find on a network, helps you avoid confusion when syncing across accounts, and can even improve basic security by hiding OEM‑style default names. The process is intentionally simple for consumer devices — a few clicks in Settings and a restart — but there are important limits, exceptions, and enterprise considerations every Windows user should understand before they press...

Windows 11 ships with a modern interface and convenient cloud features, but out of the box it also shares more about you than many users expect—location, diagnostic telemetry, an advertising ID and synced activity history are all enabled by default and deserve a careful review. A handful of quick setting changes will significantly tighten your privacy without breaking core functionality; this article summarizes the most important options, explains the trade‑offs, and gives practical...

The past two weeks produced a concentrated wave of regulatory, market and technology developments that materially change how companies must prepare for credible sustainability disclosure: ESRS simplification and CSRD readiness are accelerating, consumer and competition authorities are intensifying green‑claims enforcement, supply‑chain due‑diligence obligations are expanding, and cloud + AI reporting stacks (notably Microsoft’s ecosystem and third‑party integrations) are moving from pilot to...

Microsoft’s quiet September update is doing something few users expected: it’s starting to excise two long‑running legacy administration tools from Windows 11 images — Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WMIC (Windows Management Instrumentation Command‑Line) — as part of the preparation for the 25H2 enablement package and ongoing hardening of the platform. The change is deliberate, broadly signposted by Microsoft earlier this year, and already visible in Insider preview builds; for administrators and...

Microsoft is taking the first concrete step in its phased enforcement of the dedicated Exchange hybrid app requirement: on September 16, 2025 at 07:00 UTC Microsoft will temporarily block Exchange Web Services (EWS) traffic that uses the Exchange Online shared service principal for hybrid customers — a 48-hour enforcement window that will disrupt free/busy lookups, MailTips and profile picture sharing between on-premises mailboxes and Exchange Online mailboxes unless organizations have moved...

The property sector is at the cusp of a tectonic change: AI-powered “answer engines” are already reshaping how consumers search for services, and estate agencies that treat this as marketing theatre rather than a strategic threat risk being excluded from the very shortlists vendors will soon consult. The warning — that an AI recommendation, not a portal listing, may decide hundreds of thousands of instructions — is not hypothetical; it reflects real shifts in user behaviour, growing volumes...

Microsoft’s refreshed Windows Backup now offers a built‑in, local PC‑to‑PC migration path that makes moving your personal files and many settings from an old Windows PC to a new Windows 11 machine far less painful than past upgrades — but it is not a silver bullet, and there are important limits, prerequisites and practical tips every upgrader should know before they begin. Background Microsoft has been iterating on first‑party migration options for years. The new flow appears inside the...

Microsoft's Copilot Labs has quietly expanded the Audio Expressions sandbox with a new Scripted mode, bringing a verbatim reading option to a feature set already known for expressive, multi‑character voice synthesis—and it arrives at a moment when Microsoft is moving aggressively into first‑party voice models with MAI‑Voice‑1. Background: Copilot Labs, Audio Expressions and Microsoft’s MAI push Microsoft has been iterating Copilot as a multimodal assistant for more than a year, layering...

Connecting from a Mac to a Windows PC is no longer a niche trick; it’s a day‑to‑day workflow for developers, accountants, and hybrid workers who want the best of both worlds. With the Microsoft Remote Desktop client (and the newer Windows App consolidation on macOS), a properly configured Windows machine can be controlled from a Mac with full keyboard, display, audio, and clipboard redirection — but only after you’ve handled the platform caveats, network access, security hardening, and...

More than half of the world’s personal computers remain on Windows 10 even as Microsoft’s official support deadline looms, creating a wide and growing security gap that affects consumers, small businesses, and enterprise networks alike. New telemetry shared publicly via cybersecurity vendor reporting shows Windows 10 is still installed on roughly 53% of monitored devices, with only about 33% on Windows 11 and a non‑trivial share — roughly 8–9% in some datasets — still running Windows 7, an...

Neo4j’s new Infinigraph architecture — anchored by a technique the company calls property sharding — promises to finally address Neo4j’s long‑running scalability complaints by decoupling a graph’s topology from its property payloads, enabling horizontal scale beyond 100 TB while claiming ACID transactional guarantees and the ability to run transactional and analytical (HTAP) workloads in a single system. Background / Overview Graph databases model relationships as first‑class citizens...

Microsoft’s refreshed Windows Backup now includes a built‑in, local PC‑to‑PC migration path that can move your files and many personalization settings across the local network during Windows 11 setup — making the leap to a new machine faster and less dependent on external services or paid migration tools. Background Microsoft has long offered a mix of options for moving data between PCs: OneDrive folder sync for cloud‑first users, external drive copies and File History for offline control...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were severed on September 6, 2025, forcing large volumes of traffic onto longer, congested routes and exposing brittle points in the global internet backbone. Background The modern internet is a physical network built on submarine fiber‑optic cables that carry the vast majority of intercontinental data. A handful of maritime corridors concentrate east–west...

Microsoft's cloud-scale DDoS service is no longer an optional add-on for large enterprises — it's a foundational element of modern application resilience, and the recent RedmondMag Q&A with Azure MVP Aidan Finn underscores why. The conversation distills how Azure DDoS Protection uses per‑address machine learning, global traffic absorption, and tight monitoring to detect and mitigate volumetric and protocol-layer floods in real time, while offering straightforward enablement for teams that...

Microsoft has fixed a last‑minute gap in the plan to keep Windows 10 secure: if you want to keep using Windows 10 beyond the official end‑of‑support date, there is now a one‑year emergency option — but it comes with strict conditions, limited scope, and a clear clock that cannot be ignored. Background: the deadline and what it means After more than a decade as Microsoft’s primary desktop operating system, Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025. On that date Microsoft will stop...

Microsoft’s enterprise AI push has reached a new milestone with Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business now positioned as a paid, tenant-grade add‑on that embeds generative AI across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and a growing set of agent-driven automation tools — and with that promise comes a concrete price tag, regional variations, and new procurement and governance questions every IT leader must answer. Background Microsoft 365 Copilot debuted as the vendor’s flagship productivity...

When a headline promises a human-centred revolution — "Reimagining the Human Element: How Sarala Nishank Pathi Is Revolutionizing HR with AI and Cloud Intelligence" — readers expect a clear trail of evidence: projects, customers, timelines, technical details and measurable outcomes. The original International Business Times link for that story now returns a page-not-found error, and independent searches turn up no verifiable public profile for a “Sarala Nishank Pathi” linking that name to an...

Microsoft's decade-long desktop workhorse is entering its final weeks of mainstream servicing as Microsoft winds down Windows 10 and prepares to stop issuing routine updates and quality-of-life fixes ahead of the platform's end-of-support deadline on October 14, 2025. This transition is not a sudden outage — systems will continue to boot and run — but it redraws the security, compliance, and upgrade calculus for millions of PCs worldwide. In the last weeks before the cutoff Microsoft has...