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Windows 11 dresses itself in a modern shell — rounded corners, Fluent typography, and Mica blur — but beneath the polish the operating system still carries a pocket of dinosaurs: legacy tools and dialogs that have survived multiple rewrites of Windows and now look, feel, and behave like museum...

Two years ago, a handful of CEOs made a decision that reads today like a strategic hinge point: treat generative AI not as a bolt-on efficiency toy but as the company’s operating fabric. The consequences are already visible — from network-platform vendors embedding agentic architectures into...

Microsoft’s Q2 preview has moved from routine quarter-to-quarter analysis into what feels like the industry’s greatest pressure test since 2021 — not because the company is suddenly vulnerable, but because the scale, timing and economics of its AI bets are now both measurable and market-moving...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band cumulative update for Windows 11, version 23H2—KB5078132 (OS Build 22631.6495)—on January 24, 2026 to address a set of post‑Patch‑Tuesday regressions and to roll together prior January fixes into a single package for affected systems. The package is explicitly...

Bitcoin closed the yearr in subdued fashion, trading near the mid‑$80,000s after a volatile 2025 that produced both record highs and a dramatic correction — and while many strategists argue a January bounce is plausible, the broader outlook for 2026 hinges on ETF flows, institutional demand, and...

Cloud hyperscalers are escalating an AI-driven infrastructure race that will push capital expenditures into the high hundreds of billions in 2026, reshaping data center design, energy markets, vendor ecosystems and enterprise IT procurement in the process. Background Hyperscale cloud providers —...

Fast Startup is designed to shave seconds off cold boots by saving a partial OS state to disk, but because it deliberately preserves kernel and driver state between shutdowns it can also hide faults, block other operating systems from safely accessing Windows volumes, and interfere with certain...

A routine January Patch Tuesday update left a significant slice of Windows users temporarily unable to rely on core productivity workflows after the January 13, 2026 cumulative update (KB5074109) introduced regressions that broke parts of classic Outlook and disrupted remote access for some...

Jeffrey Snover has quietly closed a long chapter in enterprise IT: the architect best known as the father of PowerShell is reported to have retired, leaving behind a technical legacy that reshaped systems administration and automation for Windows and the broader datacenter era. The news, first...

Satya Nadella’s recent appearance at Davos and on the All‑In podcast crystallizes a single, urgent message for enterprise IT: AI copilots and agentic systems are no longer theoretical add‑ons — they are restructuring how software is built, bought, and operated, and Microsoft is positioning Azure...

A new, large survey published in JAMA Network Open finds that Americans who use generative AI tools every day — including chatbots such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Claude and others — report modestly higher levels of depressive symptoms than those who use these systems less...

The rhetorical blast from a recent opinion headline — that using AI chatbots to follow the news is like “injecting severe poison directly into your brain” — captures a real anxiety, but it also obscures what’s provably wrong, what’s still speculative, and what we must fix now if conversational...

Microsoft's first cumulative Windows 11 update of 2026 — delivered as KB5074109 on January 13 — has left a broad trail of disruption: critical security fixes were installed, but several high-impact regressions followed, forcing Microsoft into rapid damage control with out‑of‑band patches and...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer just a chat box you open in a browser — it’s increasingly an operating‑system feature on Windows 11 and a tightly gated set of on‑device experiences that Windows 10 simply can’t match. The difference isn’t cosmetic: it changes what the assistant can do on your...

Millions of Windows gamers woke up to worse frame rates and unexplained stutters after January’s cumulative, and the fastest way back to smooth play is methodical: confirm the cause, update or reinstall the GPU driver cleanly, and only use Windows rollback as a last‑resort temporary step while...

Microsoft’s first Windows 11 update of 2026 disrupted shutdown behavior on a narrow but important slice of devices and forced an out‑of‑band emergency fix hours later; the January 13 Patch Tuesday cumulative (notably KB5073455 for Windows 11 23H2) introduced a configuration‑dependent regression...

Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday brought a familiar trade‑off: a broad security rollup that closed dozens of vulnerabilities — and, for a narrowly defined set of systems, an unexpected regression that prevents shutdown and hibernation from completing as intended. The bug, tied to the Windows 11...

Microsoft’s January update cycle took an unexpected detour this week when a Patch Tuesday release introduced a narrowly scoped but disruptive regression that left some Windows 11 systems unable to shut down or enter hibernation, forcing Microsoft to ship emergency out‑of‑band (OOB) updates on...

I walked the CES floor this year feeling a rare kind of optimism — the kind you get when hardware designers, component makers, and OEMs finally line up behind a clear vision for faster, quieter, and genuinely smarter PCs. Then I read the week’s internal memo and comment threads, and that...

Microsoft has quietly handed administrators a supported — but tightly constrained — way to remove the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices, introducing a Group Policy named RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7535 (KB5072046) that...