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Microsoft’s August 2025 servicing wave is the most operationally significant Windows 11 release window in months: it moves day‑one patching into the Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE), promotes Windows Backup for Organizations to general availability, extends hotpatching across server and (limited) client scenarios, and ships a broad mix of productivity and on‑device AI improvements that will be staged and gated by hardware, licensing, and regional controls. These changes are designed to reduce...

At some point in the early 21st century, the public debate over artificial intelligence shifted from abstract speculation to urgent planning: could the next leap in AI turn into a civilization-scale crisis, and if so, what can people do now to reduce the odds? A high-profile scenario known as AI 2027 — produced by the AI Futures Project and led by former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo — lays out a month-by-month fictional timeline in which a company called “OpenBrain” produces a...

Microsoft’s short, step-by-step support page for Microsoft Edge lays out the basics for adding, disabling, and removing extensions — but the topic matters far beyond a few clicks. Extensions shape privacy, performance, and security for millions of Windows users, and managing them properly is now a core part of browser hygiene. This feature unpacks Microsoft’s guidance, explains the key settings and safeguards, evaluates the security trade‑offs, and offers practical, admin‑level controls and...

Microsoft’s August wave of Microsoft 365 updates pushes a clear signal: productivity is being re-engineered around AI-first workflows, tighter security controls, and admin-grade manageability — and many of the features arriving this cycle are designed to reduce friction for everyday users while simultaneously giving IT teams more granular visibility and governance. The release blends practical UI fixes (a countdown timer for meetings, repositioned send button on mobile), administrative...

Klinikum Landsberg am Lech has cut the time clinicians spend on paperwork dramatically by using an Azure OpenAI–based transcription and documentation pipeline that captures clinical conversations in real time and pushes structured notes directly into the hospital information system. Background Klinikum Landsberg am Lech is a 218‑bed acute care hospital that treats a broad range of patients—including pediatric and adolescent care—where the pressure of emergency work routinely forces...

Hanmi Pharmaceutical’s decision to equip its field force with 5G-enabled Surface Copilot+ PCs and roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot across the business marks a clear inflection point in how a major R&D-centric pharmaceutical company is defining the “AI PC” era — a move intended to marry anywhere connectivity, on-device AI, and enterprise-grade security to accelerate sales productivity, streamline workflows, and build a foundation for Copilot-driven agents and citizen developer programs...

Microsoft and Cloudflare have quietly handed website owners a practical toolset to turn ordinary pages into AI‑friendly, conversational endpoints — a move that could accelerate the shift from traditional, keyword‑based search toward answer engines and materially reshape how traffic, attribution, and monetization work on the web. (windowscentral.com, techradar.com) Background / Overview Search on the web has long been a two‑step ritual: query, then click through a ranked list of pages. That...

Chrome is quietly becoming an AI platform — and the consequences are already rippling through privacy, competition, and enterprise planning. Background / Overview The past week has delivered three tightly coupled developments that deserve close attention: Anthropic’s pilot of Claude for Chrome, Microsoft’s announcement of new in‑house foundation models (MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview), and an industry‑wide privacy debate about whether user chats will be repurposed for model training. These...

Satya Nadella has publicly shared five practical GPT‑5 prompts he uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — a short, replicable playbook that turns Copilot from a drafting tool into what he describes as “a new layer of intelligence” across meetings, project oversight, risk spotting, and stakeholder communications. Background Microsoft quietly completed a coordinated rollout that put OpenAI’s GPT‑5 family into the Copilot stack: Microsoft 365 Copilot, consumer Copilot apps, GitHub Copilot, Copilot...

Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration have struck 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 terms for federal agencies, with Microsoft and GSA projecting more than $3 billion in savings in the first year and a package of no-cost or deeply discounted offers designed to accelerate government AI adoption. Background Federal procurement is in the...

Microsoft and Samsung have quietly turned the living room into the next battleground for conversational AI: Microsoft Copilot is now embedded in select Samsung 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors, offering a voice‑first, animated assistant that speaks aloud, displays large, distance‑legible visual cards, and can be optionally personalized via a Microsoft account. Background Samsung announced the integration on August 27, 2025 as part of its broader Samsung Vision AI strategy, and Microsoft frames...

Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) have struck a OneGov agreement to deliver steep discounts on Microsoft cloud services for federal agencies — including no‑cost access to Microsoft 365 Copilot for eligible G5 users for up to 12 months — a package GSA and Microsoft say could save the government roughly $3.0–$3.1 billion in the first year and deliver multi‑year savings in the billions more. (reuters.com, gsa.gov) Background Microsoft’s federal pricing move lands...

Microsoft’s offer to make Copilot available at no charge to U.S. government workers marks a significant shift in how enterprise AI is being positioned for public-sector users, promising quick adoption benefits while raising immediate questions about procurement, security, and long-term costs. Background In recent months Microsoft has broadened Copilot’s footprint across consumer and enterprise products and has been actively tailoring variants for government use — including Government...

Satya Nadella has publicly shown how he uses five short, repeatable ChatGPT-style prompts inside Microsoft Copilot to “supercharge” his executive workflow — calling Copilot “a new layer of intelligence spanning all my apps” and framing the assistant less as a drafting tool and more as a persistent, context‑aware chief‑of‑staff for meetings, project assessments and time audits. Background Microsoft’s push to embed advanced generative models into everyday productivity tools has accelerated...

Microsoft Active Directory remains the single most critical identity service in most enterprises—and in 2025 the vendor landscape for Active Directory backup and forest recovery has crystallised around a small set of purpose‑built products that go well beyond system‑state snapshots. The difference is now obvious: native tools and generic VM/image backups protect servers; AD‑aware platforms protect identity, relationships, and business continuity. The Petri roundup of the “Top 9 Active...

If you manage servers, opening a port in the Windows Server firewall is one of those routine tasks that’s trivial to execute but easy to get wrong — and a single misconfiguration can expose services to the public internet. This feature explains the exact, supported ways to open ports in Windows Server using both the GUI and PowerShell, verifies the steps against official Microsoft guidance and community-tested commands, and walks through secure best practices so you open only what you must...

Microsoft and Phison have now all but closed the book on the late‑August panic: after weeks of community reports, lab reproductions and headlines warning that Windows 11 24H2’s August cumulative (KB5063878) was “bricking” SSDs, thorough vendor and Microsoft testing found no reproducible link between the update and mass SSD failure. BornCity’s latest post relays Microsoft and Phison’s findings and confirms the update shows no detectable impact on drives after coordinated investigation...

Setting up DNS on a Windows Server is one of the most consequential tasks an administrator can perform: it turns raw IP addresses into human-friendly names, anchors Active Directory functionality, and forms the backbone of service discovery across the network. Proper DNS configuration reduces user friction, supports replication and authentication in AD environments, and helps isolate performance or security issues before they ripple through your infrastructure. This guide delivers a...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11, version 25H2, into the Release Preview channel — a near‑final enablement‑package update identified in preview builds as Build 26200.5074 — opening the formal validation window for Insiders, IT pilots and commercial customers ahead of a broader, staged rollout later this year. Background Microsoft’s annual client update model has matured into a shared servicing branch strategy: feature binaries are staged across monthly cumulative updates for the active...

Microsoft’s push to fold advanced generative AI into Azure and Microsoft 365 is no longer an experimental add‑on — it’s a full‑scale platform strategy that reshapes product roadmaps, enterprise buying decisions, and how companies monetize intelligence across workflows. Background Microsoft first set the tone with the March 16, 2023 introduction of Microsoft 365 Copilot, embedding large language models (LLMs) directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams to automate drafting...