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Microsoft has quietly moved a set of EdgeHTML-era web components onto Windows’ official deprecation list, marking the next step in a long shift away from platform-specific web integration toward Chromium-based runtimes and standards-based Progressive Web Apps. This change — which names Legacy Web View, Windows 8/8.1 and early UWP HTML/JavaScript app models, legacy Progressive Web Apps, and Edge (EdgeHTML) DevTools — won’t break most consumer machines today, but it is a clear signal that...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday has quietly closed two disruptive Windows regressions introduced in August — one that interfered with MSI-based app installs by unexpectedly surfacing User Account Control (UAC) prompts for standard users, and another that crippled NDI-based streaming performance for many multi‑PC OBS/NDI setups. Both problems were first tracked publicly on Microsoft’s Windows Release Health dashboard in August and September 2025, and Microsoft’s cumulative updates...

Microsoft’s latest push to make AI the fabric of the developer experience landed with bold claims and a mixed reception: a new Insiders Channel debut, a purported Visual Studio 2026/18.0 milestone that folds GitHub Copilot into the IDE in deeper, agentic ways, and a feature set tuned for speed, context-awareness, and cloud integration — all while reopening old questions about how to secure autonomous assistants that touch private code and live systems. Background / Overview The Visual Studio...

Microsoft’s internal playbook has shifted decisively: the company has moved to restrict open employee forums, tighten campus access after a high‑profile sit‑in, and impose a phased three‑day‑a‑week return‑to‑office baseline for many staff — a package of measures that recasts Microsoft’s post‑pandemic workplace model as an operational lever in its AI‑first strategy. Background For much of the pandemic and its immediate aftermath, Microsoft marketed itself as a hybrid‑work exemplar: Teams...

Microsoft’s most recent internal reset marries a firmer return‑to‑office mandate with a parallel tightening of internal speech and campus access — a package of changes that recasts the company’s post‑pandemic workplace rules as an operational lever in its AI‑first strategy and a response to on‑site protests. Background Microsoft spent the pandemic years as a visible poster child for hybrid work: Teams, Microsoft 365 and Viva were public examples of how distributed knowledge work could scale...

Microsoft pushed Windows 10 cumulative update KB5065429 to 22H2 machines this week, a mandatory security rollup that arrives as the platform approaches its October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline — and it’s tightly linked to Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) enrollment path that can grant eligible PCs one additional year of security patches through October 13, 2026. Background / Overview Microsoft set a firm end‑of‑support date for Windows 10: October 14, 2025. After that...

Windows 11 gives you more ways to capture your screen than most users realize — from the classic Print Screen key to a modern Snipping Tool with OCR and video capture — and the short, practical guide in the AOL piece distills seven quick methods for everyday use while also surfacing a few recent platform changes that trip up even experienced users. Background Windows has always bundled screenshot options, but the last few Windows 11 updates shifted behavior toward a capture‑then‑edit model...

Microsoft has told staff it will end broad work‑from‑home flexibility for many roles and enforce a minimum three‑day‑a‑week office baseline — a phased, location‑by‑location return‑to‑office plan that begins with the Redmond/Puget Sound workforce and carries an effective compliance target in late February 2026. Background Microsoft spent the pandemic years positioning itself as a hybrid‑work poster child: Teams, Microsoft 365 and Viva became the visible scaffolding for remote collaboration...

Microsoft’s internal playbook has shifted sharply: in the space of weeks the company moved to narrow open employee forums, tighten campus access after a high‑profile sit‑in, and set a firm, phased requirement that many staff spend at least three days a week in the office — a package of changes that recasts Microsoft’s post‑pandemic work model as an operational lever in its AI‑first strategy. Background Microsoft spent much of the pandemic era positioning itself as a hybrid‑work poster child...

Ralph Lauren has launched a branded conversational shopping assistant — Ask Ralph — inside its U.S. mobile app, powered by Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI platform, marking a deliberate move by a heritage luxury label to turn generative AI into a first‑party, shoppable styling experience for customers. Background Ralph Lauren’s Ask Ralph arrives at the intersection of two clear industry currents: the rapid consumer adoption of conversational AI interfaces and brands’ desire to retain editorial...

Microsoft has quietly added a simple but consequential toggle in Microsoft Edge Dev that hands users explicit control over whether the browser’s Efficiency mode follows Windows 11’s system-level Energy Saver or stays enabled all the time—an integration that tightens the browser’s power-management behavior with the operating system but also raises questions about default behavior, user consent, and real-world trade-offs for performance and battery life. Background Microsoft Edge long offered...

EY’s Simon Brown frames the challenge clearly: agentic AI is no longer an abstract tech trend — it’s a workforce engine that will rewire HR, L&D and organizational culture, and the time to prepare is now. Background Simon Brown, EY’s Global Learning & Development leader, has spent the last two years building programs to ready EY’s roughly 400,000-strong workforce for an AI‑driven future. That headcount and his remit are listed on EY’s official people pages, which describe him as leading...

ANZ’s incoming restructuring will cut about 3,500 permanent roles and review a further ~1,000 managed‑services contractor engagements, with the bank’s retail and technology divisions set to shoulder much of the impact—moves the company says are aimed at removing duplication, simplifying operations and strengthening non‑financial risk controls, but which pose immediate operational, security and talent‑retention challenges for one of Australia’s largest financial institutions. Background ANZ...

Microsoft’s Office productivity stack is entering a new phase: after years of leaning hard on OpenAI, Redmond is reportedly adding Anthropic’s Claude family to the mix and routing certain Copilot workloads to the company’s Sonnet models — a pragmatic pivot toward multi‑vendor, workload‑specific AI that aims to improve speed, reduce cost, and hedge commercial risk while keeping the Copilot user experience consistent. Background Microsoft’s 2023 push to embed large language models into...

Dave Plummer’s off‑hand confession that his Windows NT port of the beloved 3D Pinball: Space Cadet rendered “as fast as it could” and eventually spiked into the thousands of frames per second is a compact engineering parable: a tiny timing assumption left unchecked, harmless on 1990s hardware, became a CPU‑pegging runaway as processors accelerated, forcing a surgical fix that capped the game’s framerate and restored sanity to developer workstations. Background 3D Pinball: Space Cadet...

September’s Patch Tuesday delivered a predictable mix of Windows fixes and the usual Office headaches — but this month the spotlight belongs to SAP, where a string of actively exploited and high-severity NetWeaver flaws demand an urgent, prioritized response from enterprise teams. Background Patch Tuesday remains the backbone of enterprise risk management: Microsoft, Adobe and other vendors cluster fixes on the second Tuesday of the month so administrators can plan testing and rollouts. In...

Microsoft’s internal playbook has shifted: the company has moved decisively to limit open employee speech and reassert physical presence as a baseline for collaboration, coupling tighter moderation of internal channels and heightened on‑campus security with a phased requirement that many staff return to the office at least three days a week. Background Microsoft spent the pandemic years as the visible poster child for hybrid collaboration—promoting Teams and Microsoft 365 as the backbone of...

Microsoft has quietly begun the most consequential recalibration of its productivity‑AI stack since Copilot’s debut: Office 365 will now route select Copilot workloads to Anthropic’s Claude family—most notably the Sonnet 4 lineage—alongside continued use of OpenAI models and Microsoft’s own engines. This is a deliberate, workload‑centric shift toward a multi‑model Copilot architecture that prioritizes the right model for the right task, not vendor exclusivity, and it has immediate...

Korea Telecom’s shift from a fragmented file sprawl to a unified, AI-augmented knowledge layer shows how Microsoft 365 Copilot can be the hinge between legacy habits and modern information workflows, delivering faster discovery, clearer context, and measurable productivity gains across a large enterprise. Background / Overview For decades, enterprises have wrestled with the same document problem: steady daily file creation combined with decentralized storage habits leads to duplicated...

Microsoft’s Office 365 product line is poised for a material AI shift: sources say Redmond will begin routing certain Copilot and Office features to Anthropic’s Claude models — notably the Sonnet 4 family — alongside continued use of OpenAI and Microsoft’s own models, a move that reflects both product optimization and strategic risk management inside the company. Background Microsoft’s multi-year bet on generative AI has been defined by an unusually close relationship with one vendor...