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Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) have announced a sweeping OneGov agreement that puts Microsoft’s cloud and AI stack — including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure services, Dynamics 365, and security tooling — on preferential, government‑wide terms that the GSA and Microsoft say could save the federal government roughly $3.0–$3.1 billion in the first year and deliver multi‑year savings if agencies opt in at scale. Background / Overview The GSA’s OneGov initiative...

Microsoft has pushed a major productivity pivot into the heart of workplace social networking with the general availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Engage, delivering context-aware AI summaries, smarter search, and integrated writing assistance designed to help employees “catch up” faster and surface what matters across communities, storylines, and campaigns. Background Viva Engage has long been Microsoft's employee social platform for conversation, recognition, and internal...

OpenAI’s recent recalibration—from boardroom restructures to multi‑cloud infrastructure deals—marks a watershed for the AI economy: the company is no longer only a model-builder, it is shaping the infrastructure, commercial contracts, and governance norms that will determine who wins the next decade of AI. This shift matters for investors because it moves the center of gravity from algorithmic breakthroughs to the physical and contractual scaffolding that enables those models to scale: cloud...

Microsoft Word for Windows has quietly shifted the default lifecycle of new documents: starting with Insider builds identified as Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000), a freshly created document will be saved to the cloud with AutoSave enabled by default, unless the user or administrator changes the setting — a move that transforms “untitled, unsaved” drafts into cloud-backed files from the first keystroke. Background / Overview For decades, Word’s baseline user experience followed a simple...

Microsoft has added a new chapter to Windows update management: Microsoft Intune will gain dedicated Windows Quality Update management policies that let administrators approve, approve automatically, and stage individual quality updates — including non-security preview and out‑of‑band releases — with a public preview expected in January 2026 and a phased rollout beginning in February 2026, according to the current Microsoft 365 roadmap and industry reporting. Background Microsoft has been...

The Department for Business and Trade’s short trial of Microsoft Copilot returned a familiar, measured verdict: staff rated the assistant useful and often satisfying, but the practical productivity gains were modest, uneven, and dependent on use case — and the evaluation stopped short of demonstrating clear financial or environmental benefits. The DBT trial found strong uptake for meeting transcription and summarisation, email drafting, and summarising written communication, with 71.7% user...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT suffered a widespread service disruption on September 3, 2025, that left thousands of users unable to see responses in the Conversations web UI and sparked an immediate wave of troubleshooting, vendor-switching and enterprise planning conversations across technical communities. The company acknowledged the incident on its status page, identified the root cause as a component-level failure affecting the Conversations interface, and declared the issue resolved after engineers...

Microsoft has pushed Microsoft 365 Copilot deeper into the employee experience by making Copilot for Viva Engage generally available to eligible customers, embedding a context-aware generative AI assistant that summarizes conversations, surfaces trends, improves discoverability, and provides dynamic, pre-populated prompts across community feeds and campaigns. Background Viva Engage (previously Yammer) is Microsoft’s enterprise social layer for companywide announcements, communities of...

DeepIQ and OMV Energy have announced a joint effort with Microsoft to deploy agentic AI across OMV Energy’s drilling operations, beginning with a pilot for well construction optimization that DeepIQ says will automate the corporate learning loop and deliver context‑aware workflows for well design and execution. This initiative pairs DeepIQ’s industrial DataOps and generative-AI tooling with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI capabilities and OMV’s engineering domain expertise, and it is being...

Alibaba’s Cloud Intelligence business is no longer an experimental bet — it is the engine powering the company’s reacceleration, but sustaining that advantage will demand flawless execution across infrastructure, monetization and geopolitics. Background Alibaba reported that its Cloud Intelligence Group delivered RMB 33.4 billion in revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, a year‑over‑year increase of 26 percent, and the company says AI‑driven product revenues have posted triple‑digit...

If you’ve been holding off on leaving Windows 10 because of long‑standing Linux myths, now is the moment to clear the air: the common objections—about gaming, familiarity, stability, choice overload, and aesthetics—don’t hold up the way they used to, and for many Windows 10 users facing end‑of‑support pressure, Linux is a realistic, practical alternative. The ZDNET piece making that case lays out seven persistent myths and counters them with modern examples and suggestions—chief among them...

Techland’s PC requirements for Dying Light: The Beast land squarely between “accessible” and “future‑ready,” promising smooth 1440p/60 play for mainstream rigs while reserving native 4K and ray‑traced Ultra modes for high‑end, very recent GPUs — and the studio’s published tables and storefront pages make those performance envelopes explicit. Background Dying Light: The Beast is Techland’s next major entry in the Dying Light franchise, shifting focus to Kyle Crane’s struggle to control a...

Lenovo’s next handheld may finally give Windows-weary gamers a true alternative: leaked press renders and slides circulating ahead of IFA 2025 show the Legion Go 2 pictured running Valve’s SteamOS, suggesting Lenovo could sell at least one SteamOS-flavored Legion Go 2 alongside Windows 11 models — a development that reshapes the handheld market’s software battleground and raises fresh questions about pricing, compatibility, and who wins when OEMs ship multiple operating systems. Background...

Microsoft’s push to put Copilot everywhere just took another step into the enterprise social layer: Microsoft 365 Copilot is now integrated with Viva Engage, turning the platform formerly known as Yammer into an AI-assisted hub for composing posts, catching up on conversations, and surfacing trends across an organization. The move promises clear productivity wins—context-aware prompts, weekly “smart catch‑up” cards, and the ability to ask natural‑language search questions across Engage—but...

Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) have struck a government‑wide OneGov agreement that bundles Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure cloud services, Dynamics 365 and related security tooling into a single, opt‑in procurement vehicle — a package the GSA and Microsoft say could deliver roughly $3.0–$3.1 billion in first‑year savings and makes Microsoft 365 Copilot available at no cost for up to 12 months for qualifying Microsoft G5 government customers...

A publicly exposed appsettings.json containing Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) application credentials has opened a direct, programmatic path into affected tenants — a single misconfigured JSON file acting as a master key for cloud estates and enabling attackers to exchange leaked ClientId/ClientSecret pairs for OAuth 2.0 tokens and then call Microsoft Graph and other APIs at scale. Background / Overview appsettings.json is the standard configuration file used in ASP.NET Core applications...

Microsoft’s backing of TealWaters crystallizes a simple, urgent idea: make the invisible visible. By pairing the Wetland Intrinsic Potential (WIP) approach with cloud-scale processing and modern machine learning, the collaboration aims to reveal wetlands that legacy maps miss—especially small, seasonal, and forest‑covered wetlands that play outsized roles in carbon storage, flood buffering, and biodiversity. The award from Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab funds high‑resolution, statewide mapping...

Israel’s reliance on commercial cloud and AI tools has crossed a new threshold: investigative reporting and follow‑up coverage show the Israeli military’s Unit 8200 used a segregated Microsoft Azure environment to store and process huge volumes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls, and that AI systems developed or operated by Israeli units — notably a tool called Lavender — were used to generate thousands of target recommendations during the Gaza campaign. (theguardian.com, aljazeera.com)...

WinBoat’s containerized approach promises a step change for anyone who needs to run Windows apps inside a Linux desktop: instead of translating Windows APIs or running a compatibility layer, WinBoat launches a full Windows environment inside a Docker-backed container and exposes that Windows desktop and its apps to the Linux session. Early tests show the interface and automation are polished, but the technology comes with non-trivial system requirements, configuration quirks, and legal and...

Microsoft’s PowerToys is about to plug one of Windows 11’s most conspicuous gaps: an official, supported scheduler that automatically toggles between Light and Dark modes, coming as a new PowerToys module in the next release cycle. The feature was teased in the PowerToys v0.94 announcement and confirmed as planned for v0.95 by Niels Laute of Microsoft’s PowerToys team, with the team indicating a rollout in the month after the v0.94 blog post. Background / Overview Windows has long offered a...