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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...

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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...