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Microsoft's Copilot app for Windows 11 just received a redesign that does more than tidy the chat window — it reorganizes Copilot into a Start menu–style hub that surfaces recent files, apps, and ongoing work, and hints at a deeper future in which the AI assistant becomes the central navigation and discovery layer of the OS. Background The Microsoft Copilot experience has evolved rapidly from a sidebar/chatbox into a fully fledged app that sits on the desktop like any other Windows program...

Proxmox can be run inside a Docker container — and yes, it actually works well enough to be useful for tinkering — but the method requires deliberate compromises, extra host privileges, and several manual workarounds that make it unsuitable for production and risky for anything beyond experimentation. Background / Overview Proxmox VE (PVE) is a full-featured, Debian-based virtualization platform built for bare-metal installs. It blends KVM-based virtual machines and LXC containers under one...

Microsoft’s latest moves to decouple Teams from its flagship productivity suites mark a watershed moment in how dominant software vendors respond to regulatory pressure — and could redraw the economic map for collaboration tools, enterprise procurement, and platform integration worldwide. The story is simple in headline form: after years of scrutiny sparked by a 2020 complaint from Slack, Microsoft has extended measures that first appeared in Europe — offering Office/Microsoft 365 without...

Ralph Lauren has quietly moved from runway to R&D with the launch of Ask Ralph, a conversational AI stylist embedded in the Ralph Lauren mobile app that promises brand-curated, shoppable outfit recommendations powered by Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI platform. (wsj.com, voguebusiness.com) Background Ralph Lauren’s Ask Ralph is rolling out to U.S. iOS and Android app users as a curated, in-app AI experience designed to replicate the store stylist through natural-language conversation. The feature...

As organizations race to exploit generative AI and broaden their third‑party ecosystems, a startling pattern is emerging: mass adoption without adequate visibility is creating a cascade of security, compliance, and financial risks that many firms are poorly equipped to handle. New survey data from Kiteworks — confirmed across multiple industry reports and picked up by enterprise press — shows large swaths of companies lack a reliable inventory of who accesses their most sensitive data, are...

Microsoft’s decision to restore a simple, long-requested Windows 10 convenience—the ability to flip the mouse wheel scrolling direction from the modern Settings app—feels small, but it’s one of those pragmatic changes that quietly improves everyday usability for millions of people. Background Windows 11 launched with a redesigned user interface that prioritized a streamlined aesthetic and simplified workflows, but many power users noticed functionality regressions compared with Windows 10...

Microsoft’s high-stakes legal gambit in the UK could redraw the map for the entire European market for second‑hand Windows and Office licences, and the preliminary hearing now before the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) is already exposing fault lines that matter to resellers, IT purchasers, and public procurement teams alike. Overview The dispute pits Microsoft against the UK reseller ValueLicensing in a case that began as a competition claim but has evolved into a provocative copyright...

Windows 11 still buries a practical, time-saving shortcut for power users: the so-called God Mode folder — a simple shell trick that consolidates a sprawling array of Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and legacy settings into one searchable, categorized view. Creating a folder named GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} on the desktop opens a single hub that typically lists over 200 system tasks and management shortcuts, turning hours of menu hunting into a few clicks for...

If your Windows 11 or Windows 10 PC is misbehaving — BSODs, apps refusing to start, unexplained slowdowns, or failed updates — the built‑in duo of DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) and SFC (System File Checker) will often repair what a reinstall otherwise would. These tools work whether your machine is online or completely air‑gapped, but using them correctly requires preparation, the right source files, and a clear sequence of commands. The straightforward workflow — run DISM...

Windows 11’s August cumulative update set off an alarm in enthusiast circles when a string of reproducible tests showed NVMe SSDs vanishing under sustained large writes — but the emerging, vendor‑validated explanation reframes the catastrophe as a narrower supply‑chain and firmware‑provenance failure rather than a universal OS regression. Background / Overview In mid‑August, Microsoft shipped the Windows 11 24H2 August cumulative update (commonly tracked as KB5063878, with related previews...

The UK government’s recent experiments with Microsoft 365 Copilot have produced a paradox that will shape how public-sector IT teams evaluate generative AI: staff like the assistant and report meaningful convenience gains, yet independent departmental measurement found no clear, verifiable improvement in overall productivity during short pilots. That gulf between perception and measured impact is the headline lesson from the Department for Business and Trade’s (DBT) 1,000‑user pilot and the...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer a peripheral promise — it’s being stitched into the very fabric of Dynamics 365 ERP, turning static record systems into conversational, predictive, and action-capable assistants that can shorten workflows, reduce manual errors, and free human teams to focus on strategy. Early deployments and Microsoft’s own documentation show Copilot surfacing within Sales, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Business Central and Field Service; organizations that pair readiness...

Microsoft has quietly moved a critical enforcement point for enterprise AI agents from after-the-fact logging into the live execution path: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime monitoring that lets organizations route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors — Microsoft Defender, third‑party XDR vendors, or custom in‑tenant endpoints — and receive an approve/block verdict before the agent executes those actions. Background / Overview Copilot Studio is Microsoft’s...

Microsoft has quietly moved another piece of hybrid management from "manual chore" to "policy-driven automation" with the public preview of Auto Agent Upgrade for Azure Arc–enabled servers — a feature that will automatically keep the Azure Connected Machine agent current across on‑premises, multicloud and edge machines. This change will reduce administrative overhead, shrink the agent‑lifecycle attack surface, and align Arc‑managed servers with the modern expectation that management agents...

Microsoft's Azure cloud felt the ripple effects of a string of undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea on September 6, 2025, as traffic carrying vital Asia–Europe and Middle East connections was forced onto longer, more congested routes — a stark reminder that even the largest cloud platforms remain tethered to fragile physical infrastructure beneath the waves. Background The incident began at approximately 05:45 UTC on September 6, 2025, when multiple submarine systems near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia...

Microsoft quietly built a practical pause button for millions of Windows 10 PCs: if you meet a few requirements and follow the enrollment wizard, you can receive one extra year of security updates—without paying—by using Microsoft’s built‑in backup/sync option or by redeeming Microsoft Rewards points, or you can pay a one‑time fee to cover multiple devices. This consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program protects eligible Windows 10 devices from critical and important vulnerabilities...

A sudden wave of reports last month that solid‑state drives were vanishing from both File Explorer and UEFI/BIOS left Windows 11 users alarmed — but the truth, based on community forensics and vendor testing, is more complicated than a simple “bad Windows update” narrative. Background / Overview The flashpoint for the panic was the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 — KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) — which was followed by widely shared posts and videos describing drives...

If you still believe a monthly pass with a registry cleaner will somehow make Windows boot faster, it’s time to stop — not because the registry is sacred, but because there are far higher-impact, safer, and well-supported ways to speed up and stabilize a Windows PC than poking at the registry with a one‑click “fix.” This feature explains why registry cleaners rarely help and can cause harm, then walks through five practical alternatives that actually move the needle: cleaning up files with...

Early benchmarking and preview coverage make the headline blunt: Windows 11 version 25H2 is not delivering any measurable raw performance improvement over 24H2 — it is an enablement and stability-focused release, not a performance rework — and that outcome should surprise no one who followed Microsoft's servicing strategy this year. Background Windows 11 25H2 arrives as an enablement package on top of the 24H2 servicing branch rather than as a full binary rebase. That engineering decision...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a significant control point into the live execution path of enterprise AI agents: Copilot Studio can now route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors (Microsoft Defender, third‑party XDR vendors, or customer endpoints) and receive an approve/block verdict in near‑real‑time before the agent executes those actions. Background / Overview Copilot Studio is Microsoft’s low‑code environment inside the Power Platform for building, customizing, and deploying AI...