Microsoft’s deadline is now fixed: Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, and with it comes a complex, staggered set of follow‑ups that will shape PC security, upgrade plans, and procurement decisions for consumers and enterprises alike. The headline is simple — the OS will...
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Microsoft Research India is quietly assembling a bridge between foundational generative AI research and pragmatic, India‑scale applications — a hybrid of deep technical work (retrieval, multimodal benchmarks, energy‑efficient deployment) and collaborative, on‑the‑ground projects that target...
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Microsoft’s public push to marry artificial intelligence, edge computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT) has moved from concept to catalogue: Azure IoT Edge runtime, Azure Sphere, Azure Digital Twins and a string of enterprise pilots show a deliberate strategy to make IoT development faster...
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Intel and Microsoft’s move to fold a dedicated Vision Processing Unit into Windows’ on-device ML story is not a product tweak — it is an architectural shift that changes where and how many Windows AI experiences will run, who will pay the power bill, and how developers will ship intelligent apps...
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT‑5 has arrived as a clear pivot from incremental “smarter chat” upgrades toward models built to reason—and the shift is already reshaping how Microsoft, developers, and everyday Windows users experience AI assistants on the desktop and in the cloud.
Background: what landed and...
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A high-severity heap buffer overflow in the AV1 codec library libaom — tracked as CVE-2025-8879 — has been fixed in the latest Chromium builds; Google pushed the patch in Chrome stable channel updates to versions 139.0.7258.127/.128 (Windows and macOS) and 139.0.7258.127 (Linux), and browser...
A race condition in V8, tracked as CVE‑2025‑8880, was disclosed by the Chromium team and fixed upstream in Chrome Stable — the flaw could allow a remote attacker to execute code inside the browser sandbox via a crafted webpage, and Chromium-based browsers (including Microsoft Edge) are advised...
Microsoft’s Windows team is sketching a future in which your PC is less a passive tool and more a conversational partner — one that lives in the cloud, understands voice and vision, and uses context to anticipate and act on your intent. That is the core of Pavan Davuluri’s message: Windows will...
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Mozilla’s quiet move to add a native “Search Image with Google Lens” entry in Firefox’s context menu closes a long-standing usability gap with Chrome and Edge while reopening familiar privacy and platform questions for Windows users and IT administrators alike. The change—visible today in...
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Microsoft’s Edge appears to be getting a radical rethink that puts Copilot — not tabs or bookmarks — at the center of the browsing experience, with early “Olympia” UI screenshots surfacing from Edge Canary and public reporting suggesting the redesign is being tested as a Copilot-first interface...
Microsoft’s latest on-device AI refresh landed quietly in August: KB5065503 updates the Phi Silica AI component to version 1.2507.797.0 for Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PCs, bringing another round of NPU-targeted optimizations and stability work aimed at improving local Copilot experiences on...
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Microsoft's decision to keep Microsoft Edge and the WebView2 runtime receiving updates on Windows 10 through at least October 2028 changes the migration calculus for millions of users — but it is a tactical reprieve, not a permanent fix for an aging operating system. Background
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Microsoft’s latest experiment in Edge promotion — a stealthy, exit-time prompt that appears to heavy Chrome users and asks them to pin Microsoft Edge to the Windows 11 taskbar — has renewed an old debate about platform behavior, telemetry, and user choice. The feature was uncovered as inert...
Microsoft has quietly clarified that its Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser and the Microsoft WebView2 Runtime will continue to receive updates on machines running Windows 10, version 22H2 for substantially longer than the operating system’s own end-of-support date — through at least October...
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Microsoft’s security lead, David Weston, has painted a future in which Windows listens, sees, and acts like a digital coworker — and where the traditional mouse and keyboard feel as antiquated as MS‑DOS does to today’s young adults. This bold vision is rooted in Microsoft’s push for agentic AI...
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Microsoft has quietly committed to keeping Microsoft Edge and the Microsoft WebView2 Runtime updated on Windows 10 (version 22H2) for three years beyond the operating system’s end-of-support date, ensuring Edge security fixes, feature updates and WebView2 runtime improvements will continue...
Microsoft’s recent clarification that Microsoft Edge — and the Microsoft WebView2 runtime that powers many modern Windows apps — will continue to receive security and quality updates on Windows 10 (version 22H2) through at least October 2028 is a meaningful shift in the post‑end‑of‑life...
Microsoft has confirmed that Microsoft Edge and the Microsoft WebView2 Runtime will continue to receive updates on Windows 10 (22H2) through at least October 2028, ensuring that Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), WebView-dependent applications, and Edge-powered experiences like Copilot-related...
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If you’ve felt the AGI timeline accelerating, you’re not alone: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis now says systems with “all the cognitive capabilities humans have” could emerge in five to ten years—perhaps on the shorter end—ushering in “radical abundance” and a transformation “10 times bigger...
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Microsoft has unveiled a significant expansion of its artificial intelligence ecosystem by introducing OpenAI’s open-weight language models, gpt-oss, to both Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry. This move marks a pivotal shift toward openness, flexibility, and developer empowerment...
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