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Japan’s competition enforcers have executed an on-site inspection of Microsoft’s Japanese offices after local media and international reporting said the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) is investigating whether Microsoft improperly limited customers’ ability to run Microsoft software on rival...

PAGCOR’s recent agency-wide Copilot masterclass framed AI not as a silver-bullet productivity hack but as an organisational change problem that must be married to governance, data protection and enforceable admin controls. Background / Overview In a virtual session delivered during Development...

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation’s recent agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot represents a pragmatic, low-friction approach to bringing generative AI into a high-risk public-sector workplace — one that balances productivity gains with governance controls, but which also...

Microsoft’s latest moves to decouple Teams from its flagship productivity suites mark a watershed moment in how dominant software vendors respond to regulatory pressure — and could redraw the economic map for collaboration tools, enterprise procurement, and platform integration worldwide. The...

AI chatbots are now answering more questions — and, according to a fresh NewsGuard audit, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often, producing inaccurate or misleading content in roughly one out of every three news‑related responses during an August 2025 audit cycle. Background The...

The boom in generative AI — and the data-center buildout that powers it — is colliding with an electricity system built for a different era, and regulators, utilities and tech companies are scrambling to decide who ultimately pays for the upgrades. A landmark ruling by the Public Utilities...

A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego has turned what Microsoft calls a routine product lifecycle milestone into a flashpoint over security, consumer choice and the company’s AI strategy—alleging that ending free Windows 10 support will abandon as many as hundreds of millions of...

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Hi All I have a HP Touchsmart 300-1060a (Home Premium Windows 7 64 BIT) which I bought few years back. Now for the last 6 months or so I started getting issues with my machine was not displaying anything at all after turning it on. So I had to hard reset my power from the machine and then was...

Poor old Microsoft, damned of they do and damned if they don’t. With US or EU competition regulators ever ready to pounce on them if they add a new feature that somebody claims is anti-competitive. The Sticky Notes feature in Windows 7 offers only minimal functionality, and there’s a far better...

'I'm a PC' ads not misleading, says regulator The ASA has ruled that it's perfectly plausible to claim that Windows 7 was developed by a bunch of rugby players' girlfriends, "private-browsing" dads, and spud-faced kids in Spanish cafes rather than a bunch of highly trained, generously paid...

I know this subject has been beaten to death and posted in almost all forums here, but I just wanted to give the latest info: EU regulators told Microsoft Friday that they were unimpressed with the software giant’s proposal to sell versions of its operating system without a browser built into...