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The Arm app ecosystem for Copilot+ PCs is no longer a niche experiment — it is now a mainstream platform strategy backed by Microsoft’s App Assure and Arm Advisory Service, hardware partners shipping NPUs capable of more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS), and a growing catalogue of...

Microsoft has started shipping a Notepad update for Windows 11 that brings true on‑device generative AI — including Summarize, Write, and Rewrite — to Copilot+ PCs, and those capabilities can run entirely offline without a Microsoft account or a paid subscription when executed locally on...

CISA’s release of a Malware Analysis Report (MAR) detailing a Malicious Listener discovered on compromised Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) systems should reset priorities for every IT team that runs on-premises mobile device management (MDM). The analysis dissects two sets of malware...

Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...

Microsoft’s mobile productivity strategy has taken another turn: the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iOS will stop being an all‑in‑one editing surface and will become a preview-first Copilot hub, pushing users to the standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps whenever they need to edit a document...

Microsoft is redesigning the mobile Copilot experience on iOS: beginning this fall the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will act primarily as an AI-powered viewer and conversational hub, offering in-context file previews, summaries and Q&A — while editing for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files will be...

Microsoft is rolling out a major Notepad update that finally brings true on-device generative AI to Windows 11 — allowing users of Copilot+ PCs to generate, rewrite, and summarize text locally with no Microsoft 365 subscription or constant internet connection required. Overview Notepad’s AI...

Microsoft will begin automatically pushing the Microsoft 365 Copilot desktop app to Windows devices that already have Microsoft 365 desktop clients installed, in a background rollout scheduled to start in October 2025 and described by Microsoft as beginning in “Fall 2025.” Background Microsoft...

Microsoft is rolling the Microsoft 365 Copilot app onto Windows 11 devices that already have the Microsoft 365 desktop apps installed, pushing a background, non‑disruptive installation that will place a new Microsoft 365 Copilot entry in Start menus across eligible systems beginning in Fall 2025...

Microsoft’s security advisory around a freshly disclosed browser bug highlights a repeat problem for mobile users: an insufficient UI warning in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) for Android that enables spoofing over a network. The vendor entry you provided points to a CVE record that the...

Cerence’s new in-car agent, built with Microsoft cloud services, has just crossed the line from concept demo to a usable — and commercially tempting — feature set: your car can now read and reply to Outlook and Teams messages, summarize what you missed, pull calendar locations and route you...

Microsoft’s continued migration of legacy Control Panel features into the modern Settings app has taken another step forward: recent Windows 11 Insider preview builds contain hidden, in-progress pages that surface longstanding keyboard controls and a redesigned haptic touchpad panel inside...

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...

Semarchy’s new integration with Microsoft Fabric delivers a practical bridge between enterprise-grade master data management and the Fabric analytics and AI stack, publishing Semarchy’s enriched “golden” records and semantic models into Microsoft OneLake so Power BI, Fabric services, and GitHub...

Microsoft will begin automatically installing the standalone Microsoft 365 Copilot app onto many Windows devices this fall, pushing a dedicated Copilot entry into the Start menu on eligible machines unless administrators explicitly opt out — a move Microsoft describes as a background...

Semarchy’s latest push to embed mastered, governed data into Microsoft’s Fabric stack signals a pragmatic next step in the race to make enterprise data both AI-ready and business-ready — bringing golden records, semantic models, and DataOps workflows directly into OneLake so Power BI, GitHub...

Microsoft is quietly surfacing a one‑click internet speed test right in the Windows 11 taskbar — a tiny but notable convenience that opens Bing’s speed‑test widget from the network icon’s context menu and Wi‑Fi quick settings in current Insider preview builds. This change, first observed in...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds quietly add a one‑click internet speed‑test shortcut to the taskbar network flyout — but the shortcut simply opens Bing’s web‑based speed test rather than running a native, offline measurement — and the same builds also include a subtle but...

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...

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...