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Microsoft has started delivering Windows 11 version 25H2 to the broad user base, but this “feature release” is more accurately a fast, low-friction enablement package that flips on a year’s worth of AI integrations, stability work and manageability improvements already staged in the 24H2...

The South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority has completed a full-stack transformation of its customer information and contact-center systems, ripping out a heavily customized SAP-based billing stack and replacing it with UMAX on Microsoft Dynamics 365 plus a first-party contact-center...

Microsoft’s new AI persona, Mico, arrives as a distinctly non‑threatening face for Copilot — a responsive, color‑shifting orb intended to make voice and conversational AI feel friendlier and more human without repeating the mistakes of the past. Background Microsoft unveiled Mico during its...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, is a playful but deliberate redesign of how the company wants users to experience on-device AI—an animated, shape-shifting orb that promises friendlier voice interactions, an opt‑in tutoring mode called Learn Live, and a cheeky easter egg that briefly morphs...

Microsoft has quietly opened a conversation with on‑prem Exchange Server administrators about whether they would welcome Copilot-style AI features in locally hosted mail environments — and the survey’s most pointed question makes clear Microsoft is actively exploring hybrid approaches that could...

Today’s Release Preview drop for Windows 11 — cumulative update KB5067036 delivering Builds 26100.7015 (24H2) and 26200.7015 (25H2) — is a focused but consequential update: it stitches in a broad sweep of user-facing polish, expands on-device AI capabilities for Copilot+ hardware, and patches a...

Windows 11’s 25H2 feature update has reached general availability, delivering a broad set of AI-driven productivity improvements, stability and recovery innovations, and a number of practical usability tweaks that span consumer and enterprise scenarios. At the center of this release is deeper...

Microsoft Teams today is far more than “chat with video” — it’s a full-fledged, AI-augmented collaboration platform built to replace messy inbox threads, threadbare telephony systems, and fractured app stacks by folding messaging, meetings, file collaboration, telephony, and generative-AI...

Microsoft’s latest push to weave generative AI deeper into Windows 11 moves the operating system from assistantable to assistant-first, bringing voice activation, on-screen vision, autonomous web actions, and tighter hardware-software integration that together redefine how users will interact...

Microsoft has begun the staged rollout of Windows 11 version 25H2, a measured enablement-package update that layers a broad set of AI, accessibility, security, and usability improvements on top of the existing 24H2 servicing branch—delivering an experience Microsoft describes as faster to...

Microsoft’s move to push freshly sharpened AI features into Windows 11 arrives at the exact moment Microsoft retires mainstream support for Windows 10, forcing a mass migration conversation that stretches from home PCs to enterprise fleets and device recyclers. The end-of-support deadline —...

Microsoft’s latest update to Windows 11 marks a deliberate pivot: the operating system is being reframed as an AI-first platform, with Copilot graduating from a sidebar chatbot to a multimodal, permissioned assistant that can listen, see, and — under controlled conditions — act on your behalf...

Microsoft’s short, teasing post — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — may be the clearest signal yet that Windows 11 is poised to push voice and conversational AI from an accessible add‑on into a mainstream, system‑level...

Microsoft’s short, playful tease — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — landed the same week the company officially closed the chapter on Windows 10, and the timing is as deliberate as it is provocative: Microsoft signaled a major...

Microsoft’s new OneDrive for Windows 11 — a photos-first, Copilot‑powered app that Microsoft showcased at its recent Copilot + OneDrive event — is already visible on some machines today if you know where to look, but using it outside official channels carries real risk and raises important...

Microsoft Word is changing a fundamental assumption of how the desktop app handles new documents: in current Insider builds Word now creates new documents directly in the cloud (OneDrive by default) with AutoSave enabled from the first keystroke, rather than leaving a new document in an unsaved...

GitHub has quietly launched one of the most consequential infrastructure reorganizations in its post‑acquisition history: a full-scale migration of its production estate onto Microsoft Azure that GitHub engineers and Microsoft leaders describe as necessary to scale AI services like Copilot and...

Windows 11’s 25H2 release is now rolling out as a lightweight enablement package that flips already‑shipped features on top of 24H2, delivering an incremental but important servicing milestone for consumers, power users, and IT teams alike. Background / Overview Windows 11, version 25H2 is not a...

Microsoft has pushed three new Windows 11 Insider Preview builds into the Canary, Dev and Beta channels, packing a handful of practical UI tweaks for early testers and a larger, targeted cumulative update (KB5065797) that advances the Dev/Beta feature streams for 25H2/24H2 respectively. The...

Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025 — after that date Microsoft will stop shipping regular OS security updates, quality fixes, and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions unless a device is covered by an approved extension program. Background...