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A Nottingham bus displaying an upside‑down Windows recovery screen — warning passengers that “Your PC/Device needs to be repaired” with an Error code: 0xc000000e — is more than a momentary internet meme; it’s a useful case study in the brittle realities of modern digital signage, the trade‑offs...

IT administrators now have practical, fleet-scale ways to check whether Windows devices are carrying the updated Secure Boot certificate chain and whether they’re ready to accept the upcoming Secure Boot updates — a crucial capability as Microsoft and OEMs rotate the platform’s cryptographic...

HP used CES 2026 to make a decisive push into the Copilot+ era: a broad hardware refresh that stitches on‑device AI, fleet manageability, printer intelligence, and new consumer lines into a coherent strategy designed for hybrid work and mixed on‑device/cloud AI workflows. Background HP’s CES...

HP’s CES 2026 keynote was less a string of one-off product updates and more a coordinated strategic pivot: the company positioned itself as a one-stop vendor for the “on-device AI” era, pushing local inference into everything from keyboard-sized desktops to multifunction printers while...

Red Hat OpenShift at the Edge has emerged as one of the most architecturally ambitious and commercially visible choices for enterprise edge computing, promising a single, secure Kubernetes stack that can scale from tightly constrained device-edge appliances to multi‑node near‑edge clusters while...

Volkswagen’s commercial take on the retro‑futurist ID. Buzz — the ID. Buzz Cargo — is officially in production for Europe and already staking a strong claim as the electric cargo van most likely to dominate city streets, small business fleets, and even race‑team paddocks across the continent...

If your business is still running a 2020 PC on Windows 10, you’re no longer debating convenience versus expense — you’re choosing whether to accept an unpatched attack surface, slower AI-enabled workflows, and a growing compliance liability that can reach well beyond IT budgets. Recent industry...

Qcells’ decision to standardize its global operations on Microsoft Fabric and Azure marks a consequential moment where a major solar manufacturer treats data architecture as a strategic lever for growth, customer experience, and product innovation—moving from fragmented, site-by-site...

CISA published four new Industrial Control Systems advisories on June 10, 2025, flagging high‑severity flaws in four widely used products — SinoTrack GPS receiver devices, Hitachi Energy Relion protection relays and SAM600‑IO I/O modules, MicroDicom DICOM Viewer, and the Assured Telematics (ATI)...

Windows 11 keeps pushing AI onto your desktop — Copilot in the taskbar, Copilot in Office, and now a separate Microsoft 365 Copilot app — and for many users that feels like unwanted bloat. If you’d rather a clean, AI‑free Windows, this article walks through everything you need to know to hide...

Built for speed and ready to scale, the push toward Windows 11 Pro devices—especially Copilot+ systems and Intel vPro® machines powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra—is no longer marketing fluff: it’s the practical backbone of a modern, hybrid SMB strategy that combines measurable performance gains, new...

Capita’s fast-moving push to embed Microsoft Copilot agents into everyday operations is moving beyond pilot projects into live, measurable service transformation — cutting email response times, automating high-volume tasks, and wiring AI-driven “agents” into end-to-end processes for clients and...

Microsoft and Cerence’s announcement at IAA Mobility 2025 that a voice-first, Microsoft 365 Copilot–powered assistant will run inside vehicles marks a decisive push to turn the car into a secure mobile office — but it also raises urgent questions about safety, privacy, enterprise governance, and...

Microsoft says its August Windows 11 security update (KB5063878) is not behind the recent wave of reports alleging SSDs and HDDs have been rendered inaccessible or corrupted, but the episode has exposed gaps in forensic clarity and left many users mistrustful of a conclusion drawn without a...

With the clock counting down to October 14, 2025, millions of PCs face a stark choice: upgrade to Windows 11, pay for a short-term safety net, or keep running an increasingly risky, unsupported Windows 10—while the debate over hardware compatibility, drivers and sustainability suddenly looks...

Lenovo’s new ThinkPad Thunderbolt 5 Smart Dock 7500 promises to bring a professional docking experience that feels like a leap into the future: support for three 8K displays at 60Hz, an unheard-of 180W USB Power Delivery (PD 3.1) power budget, and cloud-enabled fleet management — all wrapped in...

Windows Autopilot rollouts are stalling in a new, surprising place: immediately after end users accept the Terms of Use (TOU) during OOBE, devices freeze with a non‑descriptive error and the provisioning flow never resumes — a breaking issue first highlighted in community reporting and...

Microsoft and Phison have pushed back hard against a wave of social-media claims that the latest Windows 11 cumulative update is “bricking” NVMe SSDs — but the episode exposes a brittle edge case in modern storage stacks, a gap between telemetry and forensic proof, and practical steps every...

A wave of community test results and vendor confirmations this week has put the latest Windows 11 cumulative update under a harsh spotlight: several SSDs can disappear from Windows during sustained, large write operations after installing the August 12, 2025 update (KB5063878), with a...

Microsoft is rolling a significant change to how new Windows 11 PCs are provisioned: eligible devices will now check for and install the latest quality and security updates during the out-of-box experience (OOBE) so users sign in on day one with a patched, compliant system. This shift, delivered...