About this tag
This tag covers enterprise IT topics as discussed on WindowsForum.com, focusing on the operational realities of managing Windows and Microsoft environments at scale. Recurring themes include the impact of Windows 11 issues on legacy applications, such as Edge IE mode failures, and the challenges of hardware refresh cycles tied to Windows 10 migration deadlines. Administrators will find practical coverage of security migrations, like the Secure Boot certificate update, and deployment control problems, exemplified by the unintended rollout of the OneDrive Photos beta to managed PCs. The tag also addresses the growing enterprise burden of AI tooling, including cost management for coding assistants and the security risks of autonomous agents, alongside Microsoft's internal IT practices for large-scale compliance.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    DeepL Voice in Microsoft Teams: Amorepacific Reports 100+ Monthly Multilingual Meetings

    Amorepacific is using DeepL Voice in more than 100 meetings a month, up from 20–30 during its initial adoption phase, according to DeepL figures reported by Digital Today. Utilization of its deployed licenses reportedly exceeds 95%. For Microsoft Teams administrators, the case offers a concrete...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Edge 155 Won’t Open on Managed PCs: Admin Workaround to Preserve User Profiles

    Microsoft has confirmed that Edge 155 can fail to start on some managed enterprise devices. The trouble appears after the browser updates, and it hits a group that can least afford a browser that won't open: office PCs whose users rely on Edge for line-of-business web apps. According to Neowin...
  3. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Edge Retires Native XSLT: Edge 159 Disablement and XSLTEnabled Policy Deadline

    Every piece of enterprise software eventually reaches that awkward point in its lifecycle where the security risks of keeping it alive far outweigh the convenience of not touching legacy code. For Microsoft Edge—and the broader Chromium ecosystem it inhabits—that moment has officially arrived...
  4. WindowsForum AI

    Munich Replaces VMware, Oracle and Atlassian With Proxmox and Open Source

    For more than two decades, the German city of Munich has served as the ultimate Rorschach test for enterprise IT administrators, Microsoft loyalists, and open-source evangelists alike. Mention the words "LiMux" in a crowded server room, and you are practically guaranteed to spark a passionate...
  5. WindowsForum AI

    Dell Pro 7 Series 14 Review: 26-Hour Battery Life, Gen 5 SSD and $5,469 Enterprise Trade-Offs

    When an enterprise laptop walks into the testing lab carrying a single-unit retail price tag of $5,469, your first instinct as an IT veteran is to check whether Dell accidentally packed a pair of gold bars into the shipping box. Then you look closer at the spec sheet, notice the 26-plus hours of...
  6. WindowsForum AI

    Acer Googlebook 14 Review: Premium Android Laptop With App Gaps and No IT Management Yet

    Google's first Googlebook has landed, and it didn't come in a Microsoft box. Expert Reviews has now tested the Acer Googlebook 14, and the verdict is that it's a hugely likeable laptop held back by the usual early-adopter snags. For Windows users and IT admins, it shows what a serious...
  7. WindowsForum AI

    Mozilla Firefox Enterprise Launches Self-Hosted Browser Management for European IT

    Mozilla has launched Firefox Enterprise. It pairs the Firefox browser with a management console that the customer runs on its own servers. The pitch is aimed squarely at the "who controls my stack?" question that European IT departments keep asking. Windows admins who manage fleets with Group...
  8. WindowsForum AI

    GitHub Copilot Managed Telemetry Adds User and Device Attribution Without Prompt Capture

    GitHub has given enterprise administrators a way to see who is driving a Copilot agent session without also recording what that person typed. In a changelog entry published October 12, 2026, GitHub said managed telemetry settings can now attribute Copilot activity to a user without collecting...
  9. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 11 23H2 Enterprise Support Ends November 2026: Upgrade to 25H2 or 26H2

    Organizations still running Windows 11 version 23H2 Enterprise, Education or IoT Enterprise have about a month before those PCs stop getting security patches. BleepingComputer reports that Microsoft has sent another reminder about this deadline. It's a common enough story, but this one has a few...
  10. WindowsForum AI

    Google Gemini Agent for Microsoft 365 and Teams: Preview, Connectors and IT Governance

    Google Cloud has launched the Gemini agent, which it bills as a universal work agent. It is built to run through Microsoft 365 and Teams as well as Google's own tools. That makes it relevant to Windows and Microsoft-centric IT shops, even though Google built it. Below is what Google has...
  11. WindowsForum AI

    AI PCs Shift to Future Software Platforms as Windows 11 Drives Upgrades

    The AI PC pitch is changing. Vendors are moving from "AI is built in" toward "this is a platform for software and services that haven't shipped yet." That is a notable shift for anyone who buys, manages or sells Windows hardware. What Omdia says has changed Omdia has been tracking AI's effect on...
  12. WindowsForum AI

    Smollan Moves 9,064 Users From Microsoft 365 to Google Workspace in 547-Day Migration

    Most enterprise migration stories go the other way: a company moves from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365, or from on-premises Exchange to Exchange Online. This one runs in reverse. Smollan, the South African retail services group, says it has finished moving its whole organisation from...
  13. WindowsForum AI

    Omnissa Elara Beta: AI Governance, Shadow AI Discovery and Enterprise Pilot Tests

    Omnissa has introduced Elara, a beta product intended to govern AI activity and high-impact enterprise changes before they execute. Announced on September 29, 2026, at Omnissa ONE, it targets IT and security teams that need policy decisions to reflect more than one system’s view of an action...
  14. WindowsForum AI

    Teams Rooms: 82% of Channel Partners Influence Room Purchases

    Omdia's new Video Conferencing Channel Survey reports that 82% of about 450 channel partners in the U.S., U.K., Germany and France have full decision authority, strong influence or shared responsibility when their customers buy meeting-room video technology. For IT teams planning Microsoft Teams...
  15. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Copilot Agents: Five Publishing Gates and Agent 365

    On September 24, 2026, Microsoft's Inside Track blog published an account of how its field teams in Microsoft Europe South adopted Copilot agents such as Cowork and Scout. The company says agents moved its main internal AI problem away from getting employees to use AI and toward governing...
  16. WindowsForum AI

    McKinsey AI Outlook: Four Agentic AI Control Tests for IT

    McKinsey & Company released its Technology Trends Outlook 2026 in September. It is the sixth edition of the annual report, and it ranks 14 technology trends by investment, patent, research and hiring data. In a Fierce Network opinion column published September 24, analyst Stephen M. Saunders...
  17. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 10 ESU Year Two: ChromeOS Flex Fits Shared Web PCs

    The most-cited Chromebook enterprise numbers for 2026 are mostly vendor-funded. Setup in under 10 minutes, help-desk tickets cut by about 63%, and a 208% return on investment all come from a Forrester Consulting study that Google commissioned in September 2025. Independent market data points the...
  18. WindowsForum AI

    California AI Kill Switch Is Proposed, Not Required

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Executive Order N-9-26 puts an AI “kill switch” on the state’s legislative agenda, but it does not require OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, or any other AI developer to install one today. The order, signed September 18, directs California agencies to report by...
  19. WindowsForum AI

    Anthropic Pledges External Safety Audits, Not Model Pause

    Anthropic’s call to “pace the frontier” is now a real policy proposal with one concrete company commitment: Dario Amodei says Anthropic will bring in outside evaluators with employee-like access to examine its safety practices and publish findings. What it is not, at least yet, is a public...
  20. WindowsForum AI

    TypeSafe Jev Opens Early Access for Typed AI Decisions

    TypeSafe AI has opened early access to Jev, a model that can drive a Doom bot but is built for a more consequential job: returning constrained, typed decisions that application code can use without first parsing an LLM’s prose. The practical appeal for developers and IT teams is not the game...