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Microsoft’s Copilot has evolved from a curious chatbot experiment into a sprawling, multi-surface productivity platform that now sits in Windows, Edge, mobile apps, Microsoft 365 and Azure tooling — and its capabilities span conversational drafting, multimodal image and audio generation, in‑app document assistance, and even limited autonomous task automation. The most important recent shift is that Copilot is no longer a single “Bing Chat” personality: Microsoft now routes queries to an...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud experienced measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours and exposing how physical shipping lanes and seabed cables remain a critical, fragile layer beneath cloud-era resilience. Background / Overview The Red Sea corridor is one of the planet’s most important east–west conduits for internet traffic, carrying a disproportionate share of connections between South and East Asia...

Windows will often eat tens of gigabytes over time: updates, restore points, index databases and caches can quietly bloat a C: drive, and preinstalled “trial” apps make matters worse — a problem that’s acute on 128 GB laptops and devices with soldered storage. The practical fixes range from safe, built‑in cleanup tools to aggressive image‑level strip‑downs and filesystem compression; each step has trade‑offs between space, stability and updateability, so treat this as a tiered toolkit rather...

StatCounter’s August 2025 snapshot produced a deceptively simple headline — Windows 11 slipped below 50% of desktop Windows installations while Windows 10 regained ground — but the data behind that headline, and what it means for users and IT teams as Windows 10 support ends in October, require careful unpacking. The month‑end figures show a mature, messy migration in progress: Windows 11 is widely adopted but not yet ubiquitous; Windows 10 remains entrenched on a large installed base; macOS...

Microsoft’s August 2025 security rollup hardened Windows Installer to close a privilege‑escalation hole, but the change has also begun prompting unexpected User Account Control (UAC) credential requests and breaking app installations for standard (non‑administrator) users across many Windows client and server builds. Background / Overview Microsoft delivered the August 12, 2025 cumulative updates as combined Servicing Stack Updates (SSU) and Latest Cumulative Updates (LCU). For several...

Last month’s Windows 11 patch KB5063878 triggered a flurry of alarm among power users and IT pros after a narrow set of SSDs began disappearing under heavy write conditions — a regression serious enough that some users experienced irrecoverable data loss. This feature walks through a practical, safe workflow to remove KB5063878 when necessary, explains why the problem occurred, and offers measured guidance for recovery, blocking the faulty package, and restoring system stability while...

When a talented concept designer reimagines Windows as a glossy, translucency-first OS, the result is visually striking — but the work of turning a mood board into a production-ready operating system is a far bigger engineering challenge than a nine‑minute video suggests. The AR 4789 “Windows 12.2: The Next Evolution” concept has reignited debate about what a future Windows could look like, borrowing heavily from Apple’s recent Liquid Glass aesthetic while also nodding to Windows’ own design...

Windows 11’s keyboard ergonomics just picked up a quiet but genuinely useful polish: Insider builds now include system-level shortcuts that insert the en dash (–, U+2013) and em dash (—, U+2014) directly from the keyboard, removing the need for Alt-codes, app-specific autoformatting, or the Emoji & Symbols panel. Early reporting and community tests show the shortcuts map to Win + Minus (-) for an en dash and Win + Shift + Minus (-) for an em dash, and the functionality appears in recent Dev...

Microsoft Azure experienced measurable increases in network latency after multiple undersea fibre cuts were detected in the Red Sea, forcing cloud traffic between Asia, Europe and the Middle East onto alternate, longer paths and exposing brittle points in the world’s physical internet backbone. (reuters.com, cnbc.com) Background The Red Sea is one of the planet’s most trafficked subsea communications corridors, carrying a large portion of the fibre-optic links that connect Europe and the...

Artista Pirata has quietly become one of the most visible Spanish‑language hubs where users can find “full” copies of commercial Windows and macOS applications, pre‑patched installers, language‑tailored builds and one‑click activators — a distribution model that mixes convenience with significant legal and security hazards for anyone tempted to use it. Background Artista Pirata (and a family of mirror domains operating under the same brand name) publishes categorized download pages —...

Borderlands 4’s PC system requirements are out, and they raise the bar for midrange rigs: Gearbox and 2K list an RTX 2070 or RX 5700 XT as the minimum GPU, an Intel Core i7-9700 or Ryzen 7 2700X CPU, 16 GB of RAM as the baseline, and a 100 GB SSD install, while the recommended spec jumps to an RTX 3080 / RX 6800 XT and 32 GB of RAM — a clear signal that this entry expects modern hardware or smart use of GPU upscaling to get the best experience. (store.steampowered.com...

Lenovo’s budget-friendly V15 family is back in the headlines after a third‑party listing surfaced claiming a specification set that reads more like a custom workstation than an entry-level 15.6‑inch business laptop — a configuration that includes 32GB of RAM, a 1TB PCIe SSD, and an “Intel Quad‑core” CPU bundled with Windows 11 Pro and a WOWPC recovery USB. A closer look at official and retail specifications shows a different picture: the V15 line most commonly ships with low‑power Intel...

Knowing who is logged into a Windows Server at any given moment is an admin’s basic toolkit — it helps you troubleshoot resource contention, track unauthorized access, and clean up idle or orphaned Remote Desktop sessions quickly and safely. Background Windows Server exposes multiple, complementary ways to discover who is logged on: built‑in command‑line tools, Remote Desktop / RDS utilities, Event Log auditing, WMI/CIM queries, and trusted third‑party utilities such as Microsoft...

Microsoft’s Azure platform warned of higher-than-normal network latency for traffic traversing the Middle East after multiple undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea forced rerouting of international traffic beginning at 05:45 UTC on 6 September 2025. (backup.azure.status.microsoft, reuters.com) Background The Red Sea is an essential digital chokepoint: a concentrated corridor where several high-capacity subsea systems cross between Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. On 6 September 2025...

Microsoft’s terse Service Health advisory on September 6, 2025 — warning that “network traffic traversing through the Middle East may experience increased latency due to undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea” — was the first public signal of a disruption that quickly rippled through global cloud traffic and exposed brittle physical chokepoints beneath the modern internet. Background The modern internet is often described in abstract terms — “the cloud,” “edge,” “peering” — but it still depends...

Microsoft’s long-running legal battle with UK reseller ValueLicensing has reopened at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, and this time the dispute centres not just on alleged anti-competitive conduct but on a provocative legal contention from Microsoft: that reselling pre‑owned copies of Office and Windows may be unlawful because copyright in non‑program elements of the software (for example, graphical user interfaces) places those elements outside the Software Directive’s exhaustion rule and...

Tiny11 is the latest reminder that the Windows upgrade debate has moved far beyond marketing slogans: while Microsoft insists many older PCs are unsupported for Windows 11, independent projects like NTDEV’s Tiny11 are actively proving the opposite — and forcing a much more uncomfortable conversation about security, sustainability, and user choice. Background / Overview Microsoft has scheduled the end of free support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. After that date, mainstream security...

Factory-resetting a Windows 11 PC is no longer a mysterious or risky proposition — it’s a built-in recovery path that can fix persistent software problems, prepare a machine for resale, or simply give you a clean start; this guide walks through every practical option (including how to reset without logging in), explains the trade-offs of Keep my files vs Remove everything, and details the preparatory steps and pitfalls you must address before you click Reset. Background Windows 11 exposes a...

Flyoobe’s latest update crystallizes a tension that has been building across the Windows ecosystem: community-driven control versus vendor-enforced defaults, now amplified by the arrival of integrated AI features in Windows 11 and strict hardware gates that leave many functioning PCs on the outside looking in. Background / Overview The Flyoobe project began as a small, pragmatic community utility—originally known as Flyby11—whose first mission was simple: let willing users install Windows 11...

Microsoft has given Windows 10 users a narrow, conditional lifeline: if you want to keep receiving security updates after the platform’s official end-of-support date, there’s a single, time-sensitive action you must complete — enroll the eligible PC in Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program before October 14, 2025. Background / Overview Microsoft set a firm end-of-support date for Windows 10: October 14, 2025. On that date Microsoft will stop delivering routine feature...