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ENGIE Impact’s leap into cloud-native AI shows how a specialist sustainability consultancy can turn mass invoice and supplier data into sharper risk signals and faster client value by running Azure AI Foundry, Azure Databricks, and Microsoft 365 Copilot together in a governed Azure estate. The move promises improved data quality, faster model iteration, and a democratized culture of “no-code” AI agents—while also surfacing the familiar enterprise trade-offs around vendor lock‑in, governance...

Point B’s announcement that it has been named a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure) and awarded the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization marks a purposeful deepening of the firm’s cloud analytics practice—and it arrives at a moment when Microsoft’s partner credentials carry measurable operational weight rather than merely marketing value. This recognition signals that Point B satisfied Microsoft’s defined performance, skilling and third‑party validation gates for...

If you still have a working copy of Serif PagePlus 7 and a stack of .ppp files, the short answer is: yes — you can usually move PagePlus 7 to a new PC, but it’s rarely a one-click affair and the right approach depends on three things: the installer and product-key you have, the Windows edition (32‑bit vs 64‑bit) on the destination machine, and whether you’re trying to preserve editable PagePlus documents or only their exported output. The long answer below walks through verified facts...

Microsoft’s September cumulative for Windows 11 landed as more than a routine Patch Tuesday — it bundles visible UI polish, several quality-of-life fixes, and a new tranche of staged, hardware‑gated AI features, but it also carries a practical sting: unusually large offline installers that include on‑device Copilot model binaries and push significant download and storage demands onto every PC that receives the update. Background / Overview Microsoft published the September cumulative for...

Windows 11’s crash screen may look familiar, but the reasons behind the crash and the route to recovery are rarely simple — this feature walks through practical, verified BSOD (and the newer black crash‑screen) troubleshooting, consolidates the basic steps Guiding Tech outlines, and layers in the recent, high‑impact Windows 11 24H2 issues you need to know about so you can debug safely and avoid data loss. Background / Overview The “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD) remains Windows’ blunt...

September’s Campus Safety Awareness Month at Baylor has focused attention on a deceptively simple — and often overlooked — piece of advice: trust your instincts, while also giving students the technology, training and institutional support they need to act on those instincts without delay. Campus safety officials this month have rolled out reminders about situational awareness, promoted the university’s mobile safety app and ramped up preparedness training — messages that are rooted in...

Flyoobe lets you install Windows 11 on machines Microsoft considers incompatible — and it does so while stripping the setup of Microsoft’s default bloatware and Copilot AI prompts, giving power users a cleaner install and an expanded path to keep older hardware useful beyond official compatibility limits. Background Microsoft’s push to migrate users from Windows 10 to Windows 11 has a hard deadline: Windows 10 reaches end-of-support on October 14, 2025, after which free security updates and...

Baylor’s Career Center has quietly handed the passenger seat to artificial intelligence — deploying Microsoft Copilot agents to streamline resume building, interview practice and career discovery — and the move raises as many practical benefits as it does governance questions for higher education institutions adopting AI-first student services. Background Over the summer, Baylor’s Career Center developed user guides about ethical AI use and then fed those materials into Microsoft Copilot to...

Capita’s fast-moving push to embed Microsoft Copilot agents into everyday operations is moving beyond pilot projects into live, measurable service transformation — cutting email response times, automating high-volume tasks, and wiring AI-driven “agents” into end-to-end processes for clients and internal teams. Microsoft’s case study and recent Capita disclosures report tens to hundreds of thousands of Copilot actions per month, thousands of employee hours saved, and early agent networks that...

Computeractive’s “Problems solved” column from the 10 September 2025 issue distils a familiar mix of household tech triage and hard-bitten workshop experience: practical fixes for everyday Windows upgrades, a clear-eyed primer on Microsoft’s new cloud-assisted recovery tool, and an entertaining—but telling—anecdote about HP OMEN PCs that underlines why thermal troubleshooting remains one of the most common repair tasks in consumer PC service. Background / Overview Computeractive packages...

Bath and North East Somerset Council used Microsoft Copilot to read and summarise more than 5,500 public comments submitted on the planning application for an 18,000‑seat stadium at the Recreation Ground — a development that has reignited debates about AI in local government, public consultation integrity, heritage protection and how councils process mass responses in major planning decisions. Background / Overview Bath Rugby’s proposals for a permanent, year‑round 18,000‑seat stadium on the...

Microsoft has quietly placed a cluster of legacy web components — the EdgeHTML-era pieces that once connected Windows and the web — onto Windows’ official deprecation list, signaling a formal step toward their eventual removal and accelerating the platform’s shift to Chromium-based embedding and modern Progressive Web App patterns. Background: the EdgeHTML era and the Chromium pivot When Microsoft introduced Microsoft Edge (the original, Edge Legacy) it shipped a new rendering engine called...

Windows 11 hides surprisingly effective storage-management tools inside Settings that can reclaim gigabytes without buying new hardware — and three of them alone will resolve most everyday low‑disk warnings: Storage Sense, changing Where new content is saved, and the Cleanup recommendations wizard. These built‑ins let users automate cleanup, divert future downloads to external media, and get targeted suggestions for temporary, large, or cloud‑synced files — all without third‑party utilities...

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Multi‑vendor AI strategies promised a new era of vendor competition and lower prices for enterprise software — but the early evidence shows the opposite: rising software bills, unpredictable budgets, and a shifting cost base that rewards cloud infrastructure owners more than application vendors. Background A wave of recent industry surveys and vendor moves has reframed the enterprise cost picture. A Forrester‑based industry analysis found that a large majority of U.S. technology...

Crimson’s briefing for Housing Digital makes a persuasive case that social housing providers who have already adopted Microsoft Power Platform can—and should—move well beyond simple forms and automations to deliver measurable, tenant-centred improvements across repairs, tenancy management, compliance, and service delivery. The piece outlines four strategic accelerators—consolidating IT under a governed Power Platform nexus, embedding AI to remove administrative friction for frontline teams...

Rufus, the go-to utility for creating bootable USB drives, has a new pre-release floating around that Neowin reports adds explicit support for Windows 11 25H2 ISOs and several convenience and reliability features — but the details matter for IT teams and power users, and not all of the claims are yet fully verifiable against the official Rufus release channel. Background / Overview Windows 11 version 25H2 is being distributed as an enablement package (eKB) for devices already on 24H2, a...

Windows has tucked a surprisingly powerful administration shortcut behind a single folder name for more than a decade, and creating that folder — the community’s beloved God Mode — can replace many of the trips you make to Control Panel and the Settings app by surfacing an aggregated, searchable index of system tasks in one place. Background / Overview Power users and IT pros have long grumbled about Windows’ split personality: the decades-old Control Panel on one side and the modern...

Microsoft has made Windows 11, version 25H2 available to testers in the Windows Insider Release Preview channel, delivering the update primarily as a lightweight enablement package (eKB) that flips features already staged on 24H2 devices — while Microsoft delays broad ISO publication and positions this release as a managed validation window for IT and enthusiasts. Background / Overview Microsoft’s servicing model for Windows 11 has evolved into a shared-servicing-branch approach: most of the...

Olandria Carthen’s post‑villa momentum took a turn toward purposeful visibility this week as the Love Island USA Season 7 alum reunited two of the most powerful narratives in contemporary culture—HBCU pride and generative AI—by spotlighting Tuskegee University through Microsoft Copilot in a branded activation that blends personal storytelling, technology, and institutional uplift. Background From Tuskegee to the Villa: a rapid rise Olandria Carthen graduated from Tuskegee University with a...