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StatCounter’s latest tracking shows Windows 11 has climbed to roughly the halfway mark of Windows desktop installs — a milestone that reflects accelerating migration away from Windows 10 as Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline approaches. The headline numbers — what StatCounter actually reports Desktop Windows versions (StatCounter’s “Desktop Windows Version Market Share Worldwide”): for June 2025 StatCounter lists Windows 10 at about 48.9% and Windows 11 at about 47.8% —...

Samsung Electronics has quietly accelerated a multi-front push to turn hardware into recurring revenue and to harden the security posture of its growing roster of AI-enabled devices — an effort that now bundles a stepped-up, benefits-heavy AI Subscription Club (“Blue Pass” enhancements), a new partnership to surface Microsoft Copilot on 2025 TVs and smart monitors, and the first TÜV Nord IoT security certifications for its Bespoke AI appliances. Background — why this matters now Samsung is...

Microsoft’s product road map is quietly changing from feature road maps and sprint backlogs to prompt-first design and agent-led prototyping, a shift the company’s global chief product officer, Aparna Chennapragada, laid out in a recent interview describing how Microsoft’s enterprise AI agents are already shortening development cycles for Indian IT services firms. Background The last 24 months have seen a rapid pivot in how enterprise software is conceived. Rather than starting with a UI or...

Microsoft says the recent reports that a Windows 11 cumulative update “bricked” consumer SSDs are not supported by its telemetry and lab findings, and vendor testing so far has failed to reproduce a fleet‑level failure tied to the August servicing wave tracked as KB5063878. Background The story began in mid‑August 2025 when hobbyist test benches and a handful of field reports described a repeatable failure fingerprint: during sustained, large sequential writes to partially filled NVMe...

Windows 11’s long‑running Bluetooth audio compromise has finally been addressed: with the 24H2 servicing update Microsoft has added proper Bluetooth LE Audio support and a new “super wideband stereo” streaming mode that allows compatible headsets to play full stereo media while their microphones remain active. The change is more than a marketing label. It surfaces the LE Audio primitives—LC3 codec support, isochronous (ISO) channels and the Telephony and Media Audio Profile (TMAP)—in...

Samsung’s pitch at IFA 2025 is no longer a string of discrete product launches — it’s the outline of a single, connected platform that stretches from the living room TV to the kitchen fridge and the phone in your pocket, and it asks consumers to treat those devices as parts of one “AI Home.” Overview At its pre-IFA press program and product briefings in late August 2025, Samsung pulled together three threads it has been weaving for the past two years — advanced displays, on-device and cloud...

Microsoft has quietly pushed Windows 11, version 25H2 (Build 26200.5074) into the Release Preview channel — and unlike many headline OS releases, this one arrives as a lightweight enablement package (eKB) that flips features already staged on devices rather than replacing the whole operating-system image. Overview Windows 11, version 25H2 is delivered as an enablement package (eKB) that activates feature code Microsoft has been quietly shipping inside regular monthly cumulative updates. That...

Tech detective or headline shorthand? Here’s what’s actually changing under the hood — and what you can do about it. A popular write‑up on Touch Reviews summarizes a claim by a tech creator (named in that piece as “epcidiy”) that Windows 11’s perceived sluggishness — slow right‑click menus, laggy File Explorer, slower Task Manager — comes down to Microsoft moving large parts of the shell to modern XAML/WinUI code and (reportedly) using so‑called “XAML islands.” The article frames that as a...

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Generative AI is rapidly moving from experimental pilots into day‑to‑day HR operations, and Microsoft’s Copilot ecosystem — together with specialist vendors and regional HR platforms — is already being used to automate recruiting, personalize onboarding, and surface people analytics, even as governance, fairness and data‑sovereignty challenges demand immediate attention. Background / Overview Human Resources has long been a data‑rich function; payroll, applicant tracking systems (ATS)...

Flyoobe — the successor to the community-built Flyby11 tool — just took a decisive step away from a one‑trick “requirements bypass” utility toward a polished, Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE) toolkit with the release of version 1.6, adding a refreshed home view, Ventoy support for USB media, a noticeably improved bloatware remover, and a slate of UI and performance tweaks that change both how and why enthusiasts use it. Overview Flyby11 earned attention as a lightweight, pragmatic utility that...

A new generation of low-cost ANT+ USB dongles — frequently sold under names like Anself, Fitcent, Mantel and other rebrands — has made indoor cycling and fitness data transfer cheap and convenient, but they also bring a mix of plug‑and‑play simplicity, intermittent driver headaches on Windows, and a few important gotchas that every Zwift, TrainerRoad and Garmin user should know before they buy. This deep dive explains how these sticks work, why Windows 10 usually handles them effortlessly...

Title: A practical guide to the multicloud personalities of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — what IT leaders should know in 2025 Lead The three hyperscalers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — all provide the raw building blocks enterprises expect: VMs, managed containers and Kubernetes, object and block storage, serverless execution, managed databases, networking, and observability. But they do not approach the multicloud challenge the same way...

If you're still running Windows 10, the single most important action to take before October 14, 2025 is to ensure your PC is enrolled in Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program — or to enable Windows Backup (OneDrive sync) right now so you qualify for the free ESU enrollment path — because after that date mainstream Windows 10 installations stop receiving routine security updates. Background / Overview Microsoft set a firm end‑of‑support date for mainstream Windows 10...

August closed out with a busy month for Windows 11: Microsoft shipped the August Patch Tuesday rollups and an optional non‑security preview that together folded in a mix of productivity‑focused on‑device AI, UI polishing, enterprise housekeeping, and several reliability and recovery improvements that IT teams and enthusiasts should plan around. Background Microsoft’s August 2025 releases followed the vendor’s now‑standard pattern of combined Servicing Stack Updates (SSU) plus Latest...

Microsoft has opened the gates for early access to the next Windows 11 annual update: Windows 11, version 25H2 is now available to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview channel and is being delivered as a small enablement package (eKB) that activates pre‑staged features already present on the 24H2 servicing branch. Background / Overview Microsoft’s servicing model has shifted from heavy, image‑replacing upgrades toward a shared servicing branch and enablement package approach. In this...

This week’s PC Perspective podcast episode unspools a tight, messy knot of hardware headlines: a Windows 11 patch that coincided with reports of disappearing SSDs and an industry-wide investigation, a dramatic leap in QLC NAND that promises denser consumer drives, NVIDIA’s Blackwell-era push toward neural rendering and DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation, a nostalgic but substantial AmigaOS update, and the continuing, controversial march toward Squadron 42’s long‑promised single‑player release...

For a handful of hours this week a small but important piece of the Edge browsing experience vanished for some users: uBlock Origin — the widely trusted, open‑source content blocker used by millions — was effectively replaced by uBlock Origin Lite in Microsoft Edge after an accidental upload and briefly unlisted in the Microsoft Store. The mix‑up, acknowledged by uBlock Origin’s author (known as gorhill) on GitHub, was the result of an upload script error that applied the Lite build to...

Microsoft’s decision to dismiss four employees involved in high-profile protests at its Redmond campus crystallizes a broader and growing crisis at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, corporate governance, and human-rights accountability—one that was triggered by investigative reporting alleging that Israeli military units used Microsoft’s Azure cloud to store and analyze mass volumes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls. (reuters.com, aljazeera.com) Background / Overview For months...

Windows ships with a concealed power profile that can squeeze a few extra milliseconds of responsiveness out of high-end systems: the Ultimate Performance power plan — a no-compromise mode designed to eliminate micro-latency by disabling many of Windows’ default energy-saving behaviors. Overview Ultimate Performance is not a magic speed booster for every PC, but it is a legitimate, supported Windows power profile intended for workstation and server scenarios where latency matters more than...