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Microsoft’s quiet nudge toward a cloud-first file culture is now more than design preference — it’s a default behavior baked into Windows setup and Office that reshapes how most people will create, save, and think about their documents.
Background
Microsoft’s strategy has been moving toward...
The author’s migration away from Windows 11 to macOS is a conversion driven less by fanaticism for Apple and more by pragmatism: fewer interruptions, a richer app ecosystem that matches professional workflows, and a single standout productivity tool — Raycast — that fills gaps Windows users have...
Google has moved to eliminate a key friction point for organisations running workloads across multiple cloud providers in Europe and the UK, announcing that its Data Transfer Essentials service will be available at no cost for customers processing workloads “in parallel” across two or more...
Amazon Web Services has lost Jon Jones, its vice president who ran the global startups and venture-capital outreach, in a move that crystallizes a wider 2025 pattern of executive churn and intensifying competition for AI talent across the cloud sector.
Background / Overview
Jon Jones joined AWS...
The era when meeting prep meant skimming an inbox and scribbling a one-line agenda is ending — generative AI is now offering pre-meeting intelligence that reads past conversations, surfaces likely priorities, and hands executives five concise, context-aware talking points before they walk into a...
Microsoft’s move to extend certain Windows 10 security updates changes the immediate calculus for businesses and IT teams — it is a pragmatic reprieve, not a permanent fix, and treating it as anything other than a final planning window risks expensive, complex consequences...
Microsoft suffered another Microsoft 365 service disruption this week when Office.com and access to Copilot were knocked offline for many North American users after a configuration change the company later rolled back, restoring service after several hours of disruption.
Background
The incident...