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Microsoft has confirmed a provisioning‑time regression that can leave core Windows 11 shell features — Start menu, Taskbar, File Explorer and other XAML‑dependent surfaces — failing or crashing after cumulative updates applied during image provisioning or on first user sign‑in, and has published...

The Messari-backed “State of AI 2025” picture is blunt: artificial intelligence has stopped being an experimental technology and has become a strategic layer of national industry — with adoption, capital, and compute capacity all racing upward at once, and with the principal battles now being...

Microsoft’s own support bulletin admitted what users and IT administrators have been reporting for months: a servicing regression introduced in mid‑2025 can leave core Windows 11 shell features — the Start menu, Taskbar, File Explorer and Settings — failing to initialize after certain cumulative...

Microsoft’s new AI Diffusion analysis lands a clear, unsettling verdict: artificial intelligence has reached more than a billion users faster than any prior technology, but its benefits are concentrating in a small cluster of digitally mature countries while large parts of the world risk being...

Google’s quiet withdrawal of its formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud practices is a consequential tactical pivot: the company has stepped out of a one‑on‑one regulatory fight and handed the contest to Brussels, where the European Commission’s newly launched market investigations...

Google’s formal withdrawal of its EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft is the most visible sign yet that the cloud competition fight has moved from bilateral legal wrangling to a Brussels‑led, regulatory test of the entire hyperscaler market — a shift triggered by the European Commission’s...

The PC upgrade cycle that vendors promised would rocket with the arrival of “AI PCs” has instead become a slow, uneven crawl — a market shaped less by a single, dramatic buyer pivot than by technical gates, enterprise risk calculations, rising component costs, and a murky, still‑forming value...

Microsoft’s push to make Windows 11 the future of personal and enterprise computing is colliding with a stubborn, practical reality: millions of users aren’t buying what Microsoft is selling. Between strict hardware gates, a bumpy rollout cadence, and an increasingly AI‑centric product narrative...

Dell's blunt assessment during its latest earnings call — that the Windows 11 transition is trailing the Windows 10 migration by roughly 10–12 percentage points — crystallizes a quiet but consequential reality for the PC market: the upgrade cycle that once reliably boosted OEM sales now looks...

Microsoft has quietly started surfacing a new "App updates" page in Windows 11 Settings and is testing a mechanism that lets Microsoft Store–managed apps delegate update checks and installs to the Windows Update service — a change that signals Microsoft is moving toward a single, OS‑level update...

Microsoft has quietly begun preloading File Explorer in the background on Windows 11 as part of an Insider test — a pragmatic, reversible experiment designed to erase the familiar “cold‑start” pause and make opening folders feel instantaneous on a wider range of hardware. The change appears in...

Microsoft’s quick fix for Windows 11’s notoriously sluggish File Explorer is simple: keep parts of it running in the background so folder windows open faster — and users aren’t happy about the trade-off. Background / Overview Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7271 (KB5070307) introduces an...

Windows 12 is not arriving this year — and Microsoft’s roadmap makes clear why the company is leaning into Windows 11, Copilot+ hardware, and iterative feature updates instead of rushing a numbered successor. Background / Overview Microsoft’s next major Windows chapter has been the subject of...

Microsoft has quietly — and decisively — moved Copilot out of its chat-box corner and into the center of the Windows 11 experience, turning the assistant into a hands‑free, screen‑aware productivity layer you can summon with the wake words “Hey, Copilot”, let view the exact window you’re working...

Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt, social‑media rebuke — calling public scepticism about AI “mindblowing” and comparing today’s generative systems to the wonder of playing Snake on a Nokia — crystallised a widening trust gap between Microsoft’s executive confidence and the day‑to‑day concerns of...

Synopsys’ new simulation-driven framework unveiled at Microsoft Ignite promises to turn slow, high‑fidelity CFD workflows into near‑real‑time decision tools for the factory floor — a multi‑vendor stack that combines Synopsys’ accelerated physics, GPU‑native Ansys Fluent, NVIDIA Omniverse/OpenUSD...

Microsoft’s brief, noisy announcement that it was “deprecating” the Windows Control Panel — followed by a quiet rewording that replaced “deprecated” with “many settings are being migrated” — isn’t just a semantic wobble. It exposes a decade-long transition, a tangled compatibility backlog, and a...