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Microsoft’s position in the software industry today is defined by a rare combination of enormous scale, accelerating cloud-and-AI revenue, and a conservative balance sheet — a profile that helps explain why the company is being valued like a growth platform even as some headline ratios appear “cheap” relative to a blended industry average. Background / Overview Microsoft (MSFT) is organized around three primary reporting segments: Productivity & Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and...

Azure’s argument is stark but simple: it’s no longer a question of whether teams can build AI agents—the real battle is how quickly and reliably they can move from prototype to enterprise-ready deployment. Background The pace of agent development has accelerated from lab experiments to production rollouts in weeks rather than months. Developers now expect to iterate inside their IDEs, version prompts and evaluations in repos, and push the same agent into production without wholesale...

Microsoft has quietly begun underwriting a high-stakes experiment in conservation: funding TealWaters’ Wetland Intrinsic Potential mapping tool through its AI for Good Lab to find and protect wetlands that have been disappearing for centuries but are often invisible to conventional maps. Background Wetlands are among the planet’s most valuable and imperilled ecosystems. They sequester carbon, filter water, reduce flood risk, and sustain biodiversity and local livelihoods, yet global...

Amazon’s cloud story entered a new chapter this quarter: AWS reported roughly $30.8–$30.9 billion in revenue for Q2 2025 while launching a major, renewable‑powered infrastructure region in New Zealand—an investment AWS says will strengthen APAC presence, lower latency for local customers, and accelerate AI and data‑sovereignty use cases. (ir.aboutamazon.com, nasdaq.com) Background Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the largest public cloud provider by revenue and geographic footprint, but the...

Ollama running on Windows 11 is a near-effortless way to host local large language models, and for most users the native Windows app is the fastest path from download to chat — but for developers, researchers, and GPU tinkerers, installing the Linux build inside WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) unlocks a familiar nix workflow and, in many cases, identical GPU performance. The practical truth: you don't have to run Ollama in WSL to enjoy local LLMs on Windows 11, but if you already live in a...

Microsoft’s August rollout tightened the screws on enterprise readiness while pushing AI deeper into Windows’ DNA — security hardenings, lifecycle milestones, and practical tooling dominated the month as Microsoft readied Windows 11 version 25H2 for general release. The update cadence in August felt like a coordination exercise between Redmond’s engineering teams and the enterprise operations that must deploy and protect millions of endpoints: hotpatching and backup improvements for IT...

Microsoft’s PowerToys is poised to deliver one of the smallest but most requested conveniences missing from Windows 11: an official, supported way to automatically switch between light and dark themes on a schedule, and the change arrives as a PowerToys module that Microsoft has already teased for the next release cycle. Background Windows has long offered Light and Dark system themes under Settings > Personalization > Colors, but unlike macOS or modern mobile OSes, Windows 11 has lacked a...

Microsoft appears to be testing a native way for Windows 11 to push whatever you copy on a PC straight into a linked Android phone’s clipboard — a near‑instant, keyboard‑friendly transfer surfaced in Insider preview builds as an “Access PC’s clipboard” toggle that leverages the Link to Windows (Phone Link) stack. Background / Overview Microsoft has been incrementally expanding cross‑device continuity features for years: clipboard history (Win + V), cloud-backed sync across Windows devices...

Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) have struck a governmentwide "OneGov" agreement that offers steep discounts across Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365 and associated security tools, and — critically — makes Microsoft 365 Copilot available at no cost for an initial period to eligible federal G5 customers, a package GSA and Microsoft say could deliver roughly $3.0–$3.1 billion in first‑year savings if agencies opt in at scale. Background / Overview Federal...

Satya Nadella’s brief public playbook for Copilot—five short prompts he says he uses every day—does more than offer executive productivity tips; it outlines a practical roadmap for organizations and power users to move from intermittent AI experiments to baked‑into‑workflow AI assistants that actually change how work gets done. Background / Overview In late August 2025, Microsoft made GPT‑5 available inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and followed that rollout with a high‑profile example of how...

WWE 2K25 arrives as the most ambitious—and most controversial—entry in the long-running WWE 2K franchise, promising a record-breaking roster of playable Superstars and Legends, a first-of-its-kind documentary-style 2K Showcase: The Bloodline’s Dynasty narrated by Paul Heyman, a unified MyRISE storyline for men and women, and a sprawling next-gen-only online hub called The Island—but behind the glossy trailer and gargantuan roster lie real questions about monetization, mode depth, and launch...

A U.S. federal judge has ordered Google to open parts of its search infrastructure to rivals and banned a range of exclusive distribution agreements, while stopping short of the dramatic breakups the Department of Justice sought — a ruling that preserves Chrome and Android in Google’s hands but forces data-sharing and non‑exclusive preloading that could materially change the competitive dynamics for search, browsers, and AI assistants. (apnews.com, justice.gov) Background and overview In...

Satya Nadella’s public showcase of five Copilot prompts crystallizes a new moment in executive work: AI is not just a drafting tool anymore but a context-aware, predictive chief of staff that reasons across calendars, emails, chats and documents to surface priorities, probabilities and prep for decisions. Background Microsoft rolled GPT‑5 into Microsoft 365 Copilot in early August, positioning the model as a dual‑mode engine that can deliver fast, succinct responses for routine queries and a...

Veeam’s new software appliance promises to strip away months of configuration work and Windows licensing headaches by delivering a pre-built, pre-hardened, bootable data-protection appliance that runs on a Veeam-managed Linux “Just Enough OS” — a move designed to accelerate deployments, reduce operational overhead, and blunt ransomware risk without forcing customers into hardware lock-in. Background Veeam has long positioned itself as a dominant player in backup and data resilience for...

A publicly exposed appsettings.json file that contained Azure Active Directory application credentials has created a direct, programmatic attack path into affected tenants — a misconfiguration that can let attackers exchange leaked ClientId/ClientSecret pairs for OAuth 2.0 access tokens and then harvest Microsoft Graph and Azure resources at scale. The discovery, reported by security researchers, demonstrates how a single forgotten configuration file can act as a "master key" to cloud...

Microsoft’s decision to stop issuing free security updates for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025 has forced IT leaders into a binary choice: pay to buy time, or accelerate an estate-wide migration to Windows 11 — and the short-term cost of staying on Windows 10 could be measured in billions for large organisations. Background Windows 10 has been the backbone of enterprise client computing for a decade, but Microsoft’s lifecycle policy is now definitive: Windows 10 (version 22H2 and related...

Nexthink’s warning that “sticking with Windows 10 could cost businesses billions” captured headlines for a reason: a simple arithmetic model — 121 million Windows 10 PCs multiplied by an enterprise Extended Security Update (ESU) list price of $61 per device — produces a first‑year bill in the neighborhood of $7.3 billion. That figure, repeated across industry press, is a useful headline but not the whole story. Behind it sit real choices for IT leaders: pay for time-limited security...

The Beelink EQi13 Pro lands squarely in the compact Windows mini‑PC segment by offering 13th‑Gen Intel H‑series silicon, a dual‑M.2 NVMe design, dual HDMI outputs, and an internal 85 W power supply — all at a street price that undercuts many similarly spec’d small form‑factor PCs. This first instalment digs into the EQi13 Pro’s specifications, unboxing, user‑serviceable internals, and first‑boot experience, and places those findings against what Beelink advertises and independent coverage of...

Microsoft’s PowerToys just filled two of the most persistent usability gaps in Windows 11: a built‑in way to surface and resolve keyboard shortcut conflicts, and a promised scheduler that will automatically switch the system between light and dark themes—features that many power users have asked for for years. Background PowerToys started as an experimental collection of utilities and has evolved into Microsoft’s public “incubator” for productivity features that often outpace the native OS...