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  1. TealWaters and WIP: Revealing Cryptic Wetlands with AI-powered Mapping

    Microsoft’s backing of TealWaters crystallizes a simple, urgent idea: make the invisible visible. By pairing the Wetland Intrinsic Potential (WIP) approach with cloud-scale processing and modern machine learning, the collaboration aims to reveal wetlands that legacy maps miss—especially small...
  2. Microsoft's Cloud-AI Momentum: Scale, Valuation, and AI Monetization (2025)

    Microsoft’s position in the software industry today is defined by a rare combination of enormous scale, accelerating cloud-and-AI revenue, and a conservative balance sheet — a profile that helps explain why the company is being valued like a growth platform even as some headline ratios appear...
  3. PowerToys Theme Scheduler: Auto Light/Dark Switching for Windows 11

    Microsoft’s PowerToys team has quietly moved to fill a conspicuous gap in Windows’ personalization features: beginning with PowerToys v0.94 the project teased a scheduled automatic theme switching utility that will let Windows switch between light and dark modes on a timetable — a capability...
  4. Microsoft-GSA OneGov Deal: Big Discounts and Free Copilot for U.S. Agencies

    Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) have struck a governmentwide "OneGov" agreement that offers steep discounts across Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365 and associated security tools, and — critically — makes Microsoft 365 Copilot available at no cost for an initial...
  5. Google Antitrust Remedies: Data Sharing, No Chrome Breakup, Rival AI Impact

    A U.S. federal judge has ordered Google to open parts of its search infrastructure to rivals and banned a range of exclusive distribution agreements, while stopping short of the dramatic breakups the Department of Justice sought — a ruling that preserves Chrome and Android in Google’s hands but...
  6. Windows 11 native clipboard bridge enables cross-device copy-paste to Android keyboards

    Microsoft is quietly testing a native Windows 11 clipboard bridge that can push what you copy on a PC straight into a linked Android phone’s keyboard — and the changes could finally make cross‑device copy/paste fast, reliable and keyboard‑agnostic for millions of users. Background / Overview...
  7. Hollow-Core Fiber Breakthrough: 0.091 dB/km Attenuation and 45% Latency Gain

    Microsoft’s move into hollow‑core optical fiber signals a potential inflection point for high‑speed networking: lab and limited field results show an air‑core design with measured attenuation as low as 0.091 dB/km at 1,550 nm, a substantially lower loss than the practical floor of modern silica...
  8. Windows 11 Clipboard Pushes to Android Keyboard (Insider Preview)

    Microsoft is quietly testing a new Windows 11 feature that can push whatever you copy on your PC directly into the clipboard area of a linked Android phone — appearing in the phone's keyboard suggestions so you can paste without emailing, messaging, or using cloud notes. Background / Overview...
  9. Windows 11 Clipboard Push to Android via Phone Link (Insider Preview)

    Microsoft is quietly testing a native way for Windows 11 to push items copied on a PC directly into a linked Android phone’s clipboard — and early Insider builds show that the flow works with Gboard and other third‑party keyboards without requiring Microsoft SwiftKey. Background Windows’...
  10. ArcGIS VBScript Deprecated by Sep 2025: Migrate to Arcade, Python, SQL

    Esri’s announcement that VBScript is deprecated throughout ArcGIS effective September 2025 sets a firm deadline for GIS professionals to stop relying on an aging scripting engine and begin migrating label, symbology, calculator, and evaluator logic to modern, supported expression languages such...
  11. Microsoft: Scale, AI Monetization, and Cloud Valuation Dynamics

    Microsoft’s scale and cash-generation power remain the dominant story in the software sector, but automated peer snapshots—like the Benzinga table under review—both illuminate and obscure the real picture: Microsoft is simultaneously a lower‑multiple, fortress‑balance‑sheet giant and a...
  12. GSA OneGov: Microsoft 365 Copilot Free for Federal Agencies - Opportunities and Risks

    Microsoft’s new OneGov agreement with the General Services Administration promises to make Microsoft 365 Copilot effectively free for qualifying federal customers while folding deep discounts across Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and security tooling into a government‑wide purchasing vehicle...
  13. Windows 11 brings native clipboard sync to Android via Link to Windows

    Microsoft quietly added a native option in Windows 11 to push your PC clipboard to Android — and in early hands‑on testing it appears to land inside any Android keyboard that reads the system clipboard, including Gboard. Overview Windows 11’s clipboard has long been more than a lone Ctrl+C...
  14. NLWeb and AutoRAG: Turning Web Pages into AI Conversational Endpoints

    Microsoft and Cloudflare have quietly handed website owners a practical toolset to turn ordinary pages into AI‑friendly, conversational endpoints — a move that could accelerate the shift from traditional, keyword‑based search toward answer engines and materially reshape how traffic, attribution...
  15. OneGov-Microsoft Deal: Free Copilot and Azure Discounts for U.S. Agencies

    Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration have struck a sweeping OneGov agreement that puts Microsoft’s cloud and AI stack — including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure services, Dynamics 365, and security tooling — on preferential terms for federal agencies, with Microsoft and GSA...
  16. KB5063878: No Widespread SSD Failures in Windows 11 24H2

    Microsoft and Phison have now all but closed the book on the late‑August panic: after weeks of community reports, lab reproductions and headlines warning that Windows 11 24H2’s August cumulative (KB5063878) was “bricking” SSDs, thorough vendor and Microsoft testing found no reproducible link...
  17. Hollow-Core Fiber Breakthrough: 0.091 dB/km Attenuation at 1550 nm

    Microsoft and the University of Southampton have published what the teams describe as a watershed result in optical communications: a hollow‑core optical fiber with measured attenuation of 0.091 dB/km at 1,550 nm, a performance level that — if reproduced in production volumes and field...
  18. Microsoft MAI Push: In‑House AI, Copilot on Azure, and Enterprise Risk

    Lyft CEO David Risher’s recent public praise for Oura Ring, Starbucks, and Microsoft lands at a moment when Microsoft itself has signaled a major strategic pivot — shipping its first in‑house MAI models and doubling down on an AI‑centric infrastructure plan that changes the calculus for Copilot...
  19. Navatar AI CRM for M&A: Email, Slack & Outlook Intelligence via Agentforce 3

    Navatar’s new release promises a purpose-built, AI-powered CRM designed for M&A advisory teams that automatically captures emails, meetings, messages and documents, surfaces relationship intelligence inside the tools bankers already use (Outlook and Slack), and runs generative AI workflows on...
  20. Microsoft Retires Mobile Plans App, Shifting Windows eSIM Provisioning to Settings

    Microsoft's decision to retire the Mobile Plans app for Windows marks the end of a small but strategic piece of the company's push to make cellular connectivity a first-class feature on PCs, and it raises immediate questions for users of eSIM-enabled laptops, OEMs, and mobile operators about...