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Microsoft’s Copilot in Word for the web now offers a genuine time-saver for anyone who spends hours polishing documents: a one‑click “Fix spelling and grammar” action that applies all suggested corrections to a selected passage, then lets you accept or undo them in bulk or one at a time. Overview Microsoft has added a new Copilot action inside Word for the web that automatically applies spelling and grammar corrections to a highlighted section of text. The workflow is intentionally simple...

Microsoft’s IBC 2025 message is unmistakable: media and entertainment companies must move from experimentation to full-scale deployment of agentic AI if they want to become what Microsoft calls a “Frontier Firm” — organizations that combine human creativity with autonomous AI agents to unlock new storytelling, engagement, and operational models. At IBC, Microsoft framed this as a pragmatic platform play: Azure cloud, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and a partner...

Microsoft’s latest internal shake-up has collapsed two debates that have run through corporate tech since the pandemic: how much power employers should have over employee speech, and how far the hybrid workplace experiment goes before organizations insist on physical presence as a business imperative. In a cascade of changes that includes shutting long-standing employee forums, tighter building access rules, high‑profile terminations tied to campus protests, and a phased requirement for many...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday lands for Windows 10 with a mix of stability fixes, enterprise controls and a new organizational backup capability — but the rollout is as much about operational discipline as it is about fresh features. The September 2025 cumulative updates bring build bumps for 22H2 (notably OS Build 19045.6332), backported fixes for legacy branches, the general availability of Windows Backup for Organizations, and a licensing/networking control tied to Extended Security...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday for Windows 11 24H2 quietly surfaced support for Emoji 16.0, completing the behind‑the‑scenes work that began with the August optional preview update and bringing the system emoji inventory up to the Unicode‑recommended total — but the experience is uneven: the new glyphs render correctly in some apps while the system picker and many popular services still show missing‑glyph boxes. Background Windows has historically treated emoji support as a combination...

Microsoft’s reported decision to integrate Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 into Microsoft 365 marks a deliberate and consequential step away from a single‑provider AI strategy and toward a multi‑model, standards‑based future for enterprise productivity tools. This move — first reported today by several outlets and corroborated in internal and developer documentation — reflects months of platform engineering, benchmark testing, and emerging commercial friction between the major AI players. The...

Google’s Gemini app can now accept audio uploads — a long‑requested capability that broadens Gemini’s multimodal reach and reshapes how users can transcribe, summarize, and analyze spoken content inside Google’s AI ecosystem. The rollout splits limits between free and paid tiers, extends Gemini prompts to accept multiple files (including ZIP archives), and arrives alongside substantial NotebookLM and Search language upgrades that push Google’s productivity‑first AI play into clearer...

The Trade Desk’s AI gamble has moved from experiment to enterprise: Kokai is live, adoption has accelerated, and the company is consciously steering its product and go-to-market strategy around the very forces — generative search and AI-driven ecosystems — that threaten the open web it sells into. (thetradedesk.com, fool.com) Background The Trade Desk (TTD) long pitched itself as the independent demand-side platform (DSP) for advertisers who prefer transparency and control outside Big Tech's...

There has been a sharp and measurable shift in how Irish mid‑market executives view artificial intelligence: the proportion who described AI as “over‑rated” or mostly hype has collapsed, firms are moving rapidly to formalise generative‑AI rules for staff, yet anxiety about data privacy has never been higher — a paradox that will shape which Irish SMEs win and which stumble as AI moves from experiment to steady state. Background and overview Grant Thornton’s International Business Report...

Microsoft’s most consequential posture change on hybrid work since the pandemic landed this week: the company will require many employees who live within commuting distance of a Microsoft office to be onsite at least three days per week, rolling the policy out in phases that begin with the Puget Sound region and extend across the U.S. and then internationally. Background Microsoft’s hybrid policy has been a bellwether for enterprise tech since 2020. For years the company allowed many...

Microsoft’s family tools put a clear map in the hands of parents: carefully scoped browsing through Microsoft Edge Kids Mode, centrally managed limits and activity reports via Microsoft Family Safety, and optional hardware-level protections on modern Copilot+ PCs that reduce the chance of low-level attacks—together they form a layered approach to setting up Windows parental controls that balances safety, usability, and transparency. Background / Overview Microsoft’s parental-control story...

Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel experiment stitches AI into one of Windows’ oldest workflows: right‑clicking files. The reported Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27938 surfaces a new AI actions entry in File Explorer’s context menu that lets you run visual search, blur or remove backgrounds, and perform generative erases on common image formats without opening a separate editor — and it pairs that with a returning Notification Center clock that displays seconds and a new Settings surface...

Phison’s latest public testing and community forensics have reframed the mid‑August Windows 11 SSD scare: what began as frantic reports that the Windows 11 August cumulative updates (commonly tracked as KB5063878 and the related KB5062660) were “bricking” NVMe drives now appears to be a narrower, cross‑stack compatibility incident driven largely by pre‑release/engineering firmware and non‑retail BIOS images used on test systems, not a universal flaw in Windows 11 itself. (theverge.com...

Apple’s AI crossroads tightened this week as multiple reports say the company is quietly weighing an extraordinary course correction: instead of shipping its own large language model as the core of the long‑promised Siri overhaul, Apple is exploring licensing or otherwise using Google’s Gemini — a move that would trade absolute control for speed and capability at a moment when rivals are already embedding powerful assistants across phones, search, and desktop experiences. (investing.com...

The Los Angeles Rams’ 14–9 win over the Houston Texans was notable not just for a late-game stop and Matthew Stafford’s quiet climb into the 60,000-career-passing-yards club, but for the way Sean McVay’s embrace of sideline technology framed the narrative: a coach openly betting on advanced analytics and AI-powered tools to squeeze margins in a league where a few seconds or one insight can decide a game. The victory at SoFi Stadium had the feel of a small, early-season proof of concept —...

TEKLYNX’s latest product cycle tightens the company’s focus on standards, cloud connectivity, and modern runtime compatibility—rolling out what Label & Narrow Web calls the TEKLYNX 2025 family (LABEL MATRIX, LABELVIEW, CODESOFT, SENTINEL and LABEL ARCHIVE) with new features aimed at GS1 Digital Link support, expanded barcode standards (including IEC 61406), improved cloud data connectivity, native printer drivers, and enterprise readiness for .NET 8.0 and Windows Server 2025 environments...

Microsoft has told staff they must be back on-premises at least three days a week — starting in Redmond and rolling outward across the U.S. and then internationally — while giving employees who live outside their worksite a narrow window to request an exception or relocation. The change, announced by Chief People Officer Amy Coleman in an internal-facing company blog, sets a firm timetable for Redmond-area staff to be onsite by the end of February 2026 and invites exemption requests with a...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivers a targeted corrective for two of the most disruptive regressions reported by end users and IT teams over the last month: the unexpected UAC prompts and MSI repair failures that blocked non‑admin workflows, and severe stuttering in NDI-based streaming when Display Capture is used with OBS. The cumulative package shipped as KB5065426 for Windows 11 24H2 (with companion KBs for 23H2/22H2) bundles security hardening, a servicing‑stack update, and a...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday brings a substantial, feature‑heavy cumulative update to Windows 11—KB5065426—delivering a mix of visible UI polish, staged Copilot+ AI capabilities, privacy controls for on‑device generative features, and a set of bug and security fixes that administrators and enthusiasts will need to treat as more than a routine monthly patch. Background Microsoft packaged KB5065426 as the September cumulative update for Windows 11 and has pushed it to devices running...

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs has quietly moved from talk to trial: a beta AI-powered search is now live on the DVA website, the agency has published an AI transparency statement, and small-scale pilots — including an internal Microsoft Copilot trial and a proof‑of‑concept claims tool built in the Commonwealth’s GovAI environment — are being used to test whether generative AI can simplify navigation, speed claims work and reduce call‑centre demand for veterans and their families...