Microsoft has found two new hardware allies in its bid to make the cloud PC the default endpoint in many workplaces: ASUS and Dell will ship dedicated Windows 365 Cloud PC devices alongside Microsoft’s own Windows 365 Link hardware, expanding a product category that promises simpler management...
Microsoft’s Windows 365 is moving from concept to broader reality for enterprise IT teams: Dell and ASUS are adding purpose-built desktop endpoints to the Cloud PC portfolio, with the Dell Pro Desktop and the ASUS NUC 16 for Windows 365 scheduled for general availability in the third quarter of...
Microsoft and the PC ecosystem have quietly but urgently published a set of new, practical resources for rolling Secure Boot certificate updates across cloud-hosted and managed desktop environments — specifically Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Windows 365 (Cloud PC), and Microsoft Intune. These...
Microsoft’s push to make Windows 365 a tangible, hardware-backed category took a clear step forward this week with announcements from Microsoft, ASUS, and Dell that place purpose-built Cloud PCs into the hands of enterprise buyers — but the move raises as many strategic and technical questions...
Microsoft’s cloud-first desktop strategy just gained real momentum: today the company announced that Microsoft‑branded Cloud PC endpoints will no longer be a single‑vendor experiment but an OEM-backed product category, with ASUS and Dell shipping purpose‑built mini PCs that boot straight into...
Microsoft’s cloud-first push just gained two new hardware partners: ASUS and Dell will ship purpose‑built Cloud PC devices that pair with Windows 365, extending the small but growing category that began with Microsoft’s own Windows 365 Link. The devices — the ASUS NUC 16 for Windows 365 and the...
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Banco de Crédito del Perú (BCP) reports that moving developer and specialist teams to Windows 365 Cloud PCs delivered measurable gains in stability, predictability and operational agility — and that the bank realized roughly S/1,000,000 (one million Peruvian soles) in savings after the...
Microsoft’s Technical Takeoff returns in March 2026 with a concentrated, engineering‑led lineup aimed squarely at Windows, Windows‑in‑the‑cloud, and endpoint management teams—and for IT pros who manage Windows 11, Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop or Intune, the four Mondays of deep dives are...
ABN AMRO’s move to Windows 365 for 3,500 offshore developers is more than a desktop swap — it’s a deliberate modernization of the bank’s developer workplace designed to cut latency, simplify operations, and align global teams on a single, cloud‑first platform.
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ABN AMRO, one...
Microsoft’s January update cycle took an unexpected detour this week when a Patch Tuesday release introduced a narrowly scoped but disruptive regression that left some Windows 11 systems unable to shut down or enter hibernation, forcing Microsoft to ship emergency out‑of‑band (OOB) updates on...
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Chrome OS’s momentum is real — especially in education and low-cost hardware — but the case that it will topple Windows across consumers, enterprises, and power users is far from proven, and Microsoft has clear, defensible advantages that keep it comfortably in the fight for the foreseeable...
Heneways Freight Services has moved from brittle, location-bound IT to a cloud-first workforce by deploying Windows 365 Cloud PCs and Microsoft’s new purpose-built device, Windows 365 Link, managed through Microsoft Intune, a shift the company says cut user-experience tickets by up to 90% and IT...
Nerdio announced on January 7, 2026, that Scott Manchester — a long‑time Microsoft executive who has led Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop product teams — will join the company as its new Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO), a strategic hire that centralizes product, engineering...
AI use at work has accelerated faster than most managers expected, and the practical consequences are no longer hypothetical: employees are increasingly turning to chatbots, writing assistants, and specialized AI tools to do tangible parts of their jobs, while companies scramble to build policy...
ControlUp’s new migration utility promises to convert what has often been a slow, error-prone Azure desktop migration into an automated, governed pipeline — and it is being offered at no charge to organizations that want to move Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) or other Azure VMs into Windows 365...
Microsoft has taken a decisive step beyond “research assistant” with Researcher by adding Computer Use — a capability that lets the agent spin up an ephemeral, sandboxed cloud PC to act on a user’s behalf: open browsers, sign in with secure handover, click and type in interactive UIs, run short...
Microsoft and Meta have moved Mixed Reality Link and the Windows App for Meta Quest out of preview and into general availability, enabling Windows 11 and Windows 365 Cloud PC sessions to run directly inside Meta Quest headsets and delivering a practical, multi‑monitor virtual desktop experience...
Microsoft has opened the door for secure, managed collaboration with non‑employee accounts by adding external identity support for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365 in public preview — a change that lets organizations invite partners, contractors, and other guest users into their Entra...
Nerdio’s latest push to simplify and scale Windows 365 management marks a clear inflection point for enterprise desktop modernization: in a press release tied to NerdioCon 2025 the company says thousands of Windows 365 Cloud PCs are now being managed through Nerdio Manager for Enterprise and it...
Microsoft’s deadline is now unavoidable: Windows 10 will stop receiving regular security updates on October 14, 2025, and the immediate fallout in India—where millions of machines still run Windows 10—has forced consumers, small businesses, and large organisations into a compressed set of...
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