Microsoft’s latest packaging of its agent-building tools — now split into Copilot Studio Lite and the Copilot Studio Full Experience — is less a rename and more a strategic reframe: the company is clarifying who these tools are for, where they run, and how enterprises should govern them. The...
Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot desktop app on Windows machines that already have Microsoft 365 desktop clients installed, a background rollout slated to start in early October and run into mid‑November 2025 — and while enterprise tenants can opt out, most...
Microsoft’s app-store experiment started with a clear promise — a single, safe place to find and automatically update Windows software — but for more than a decade the reality was a sequence of missteps, confusing platform shifts, and fragmented developer incentives that left most PC users...
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Microsoft has confirmed a sweeping change to how Windows devices will receive AI integration: the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will be automatically installed on Windows systems that already have Microsoft 365 desktop apps, with the rollout beginning in early October 2025 and expected to finish...
Microsoft will begin installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app automatically on Windows devices that already have the Microsoft 365 desktop apps, a background rollout that starts this fall and is expected to reach completion by mid‑November — but it won’t happen for devices in the European...
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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...
The October 14, 2025 deadline for Windows 10 support is not a vague marketing threat—it’s a hard, non‑negotiable inflection point that forces SMBs to choose between predictable, staged migration now or emergency, expensive remediation later.
Background
Windows 10 will stop receiving free...
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September 9, 2025 — KB5065474: Hotpatch for Windows 11 Enterprise (24H2) — Full summary, impact, and deployment guidance
TL;DR — What you need to know right now
Microsoft released hotpatch KB5065474 on September 9, 2025 for Windows 11 Enterprise (24H2 / LTSC 2024). After installation eligible...
BlinkOps’ announced integration with Microsoft Sentinel brings a new class of agentic security automation into the Azure ecosystem — available today through the Azure Marketplace and supported by prebuilt content in the Sentinel Content Hub — and that combination has immediate operational...
Microsoft is retiring the built-in Mobile Plans app and moving eSIM purchase and provisioning to a web-first model where carrier websites handle checkout while Windows Settings manages secure device provisioning and identifier consent.
Background / Overview
The Mobile Plans app — a small...
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Microsoft Copilot is built into Windows 11 and Microsoft 365, but it’s straightforward to hide, disable, or block the feature when you want a distraction‑free workspace or need to enforce an enterprise policy.
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Microsoft introduced Copilot as a system‑level assistant that blends local...
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Microsoft’s enterprise backup story just took a meaningful step: Windows Backup for Organizations — the tenant-scoped backup and restore experience Microsoft built to ease device refreshes and large-scale Windows migrations — is being exposed to Intune administrators and moving into wider...
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Mozilla has added a way to turn off its new AI features — but only for IT administrators, not ordinary users, leaving privacy‑minded consumers stuck with an awkward manual workaround or buried about:config toggles to fully opt out.
Background
Firefox has been steadily adding on‑device and...
Windows 11’s ongoing preview updates are delivering modest but meaningful changes this month: Microsoft has quietly applied reliability fixes to the taskbar’s auto‑hide behavior and is experimenting with surfacing Copilot suggestions inside the Start menu’s Recommended area. These two items —...
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Renaming a Windows 11 PC is one of those tiny housekeeping tasks that pays outsized dividends: it makes devices easier to find on a network, helps you avoid confusion when syncing across accounts, and can even improve basic security by hiding OEM‑style default names. The process is intentionally...
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Microsoft’s latest push makes the long-promised “passwordless” future real for Windows 11 users by turning passkeys and Windows Hello into the default, secure way to sign into apps, websites, and corporate devices — removing passwords from the sign-in flow while preserving recoverability and...
Microsoft's public posture toward Windows Mobile has quietly shifted from product-led ambition to maintenance-mode realism: the company will keep the platform alive for security patches, enterprise deployments and compatibility with Windows 10's broader ecosystem, but it will no longer...
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Microsoft’s announcement at Ignite that an enterprise-oriented variant of Windows 10 S will be used as a lower‑cost, locked‑down deployment option for large organizations marks a pragmatic pivot in how the company is packaging security, management and price for frontline and lightweight worker...
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Microsoft has pushed another Windows 10 preview build into the Release Preview Channel as the operating system hurtles toward its firm end‑of‑support date next month, delivering a small set of stability and servicing fixes insiders and IT teams should validate now rather than later.
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Microsoft’s October deadline for Windows 10 support has arrived like a ringing bell for an industry that—by several measures—wasn’t ready: large numbers of consumer and corporate endpoints still run Windows 10, many organisations face compatibility and budget constraints, and the safety net...
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